Holocaust's Jewish calendars: keeping time sacred, making time holy

The challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial and many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars according to the wartime settings in which they were produced--from Jewish communities to ghettos and concentration camps. The calendars show how Jews were committed to fashioning traditional guides to daily life, even in the most extreme conditions. He elucidates how Holocaust-era diaries sometimes served as surrogate Jewish calendars. Rosen presents a revised idea of time, continuity, the sacred and the mundane during the Holocaust. He focuses on the Jewish calendar as a symbol of continuity and sheds new light on how Jews maintained connections to their way of conceiving time during the Holocaust.