Research and Papers
In Shem Olam a wide range of research projects, doctorates, theses and dissertations is available and can be browsed by the general public on the premises of the Institute. The list of topics is presented below.
| • Adam Czerniakow head of the Judenrat in the Warsaw ghetto - Which educational frameworks (formal and informal) operated in the Warsaw and Lodz ghettos? Did they strive for the same goals? What were their areas of operation? How did they cope with the new reality that was forced on the children? What is the influential difference between educational frameworks (formal and informal) upon the children both mentally and physically? Were the areas of influence the same as those before the war? What was their impact on the children's educational processes? Can one see in the educational organization an expression of resistance? And what was the range of influence on the Jewish child? • Faith in the Holocaust – the distress and magnanimity of the believer during the Holocaust • Members of the Sonderkommando – their world, questions of faith and spirit, and their way of coping • Sanctification of God vis-à-vis sanctification of life in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising • The children's block in the family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau • Dilemmas and the way women coped during the Holocaust • Moral dilemmas during the Holocaust • Ethical and moral dilemmas faced by Jews who rose up and fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising • The figure of the Jewish doctor in the ghetto • The Jewish doctor in the Polish ghettos – his character and way of coping • Coping with the prohibition of birth in the ghettos of Lithuania • Religious Belief undergoing tests of faith – the Warsaw ghetto as a representative example • Race/ Racism and the Holocaust • Hanukkah candle lighting in the Holocaust • The Spiritual Coping of Religious Women in Nazi Camps • Jewish leadership in Tunisia during the Nazi Occupation • Rescue during the Holocaust – chances for success vis-à-vis the risks. What motivations and difficulties were felt by Jewish and non-Jewish rescuers when they came to save Jews during the Holocaust? What relationship developed between the rescuers and the survivors? • Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust • Observance of Jewish Festivals under ghetto conditions • Informal education in the Holocaust Period, with emphasis on the uniqueness of the Youth Movements • Torah Education in the Warsaw ghetto • Attitude towards Observance of Religious Law (Halacha) in the Holocaust • The public and leadership's attitudes to saving children under a false identity at various levels within the ghetto • Children and Youth in Theresienstadt • Religious Law and observance among the women in the ghettos and camps. How much and in what way were the women able to maintain and perform the laws of religious observance in the ghettos and camps, and did these acts of faith hold additional significance? • The struggle to observance of religious life and Jewish Holidays in the Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos • The meaning Jews gave to the Passover festival in the Holocaust • Significance of Jewish prayer under the Nazi regime during the Holocaust • The Judicial Israeli Court and Holocaust Remembrance: The Historical Role of the Court on the Question of the Judenrat • The Palestine Office in Budapest: Its rescue - work in 1943-1945 and how it is presented in the collective memory • Marriage in the ghettos during the Holocaust • Rescue of Jews in Poland during the Holocaust • Saving Jewish children in the Holocaust under an assumed identity • Rabbi Huberband z"l • The Doctors in the Ghetto – Their contribution and the way they coped in the Warsaw Ghetto • The Holocaust in the world of Youth-At-Risk. Exposure of youth-at-risk to the subject of the Holocaust. • Comparison of the leadership of Rabbi Yoel Teitelboim/The Satmar Rebbe to that of Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam/Admor of Bobov • The effect of the Holocaust trauma on survivors' Jewish identity formation • Women coping in the ghettos during the Holocaust • Women coping during in the Holocaust • Dealing with children's identity problems as part of survival. Holocaust testimonials from children who were hidden in rural villages • Coping with keeping tradition and Jewish holidays in the Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos • Women's Religious Coping during the Holocaust • The behavior of the Germans in World War II and the resilience of the Jews in the Holocaust |
• False identity during the Holocaust • Education of the Jewish Child in the Holocaust • What is the difference between Sanctification of God's name in death and Sanctification of God's name in life from the perspective of Jewish history in general, and the Holocaust in particular? | |||||||||