Memoirs not forgotten: Rabbis who survived the Holocaust

Examines scholarly rabbinic writings of wartime experiences which took the form of prefaces to rabbinic texts. She demonstrates how these introductions were the chosen genre for discourses on suffering and Jewish tragedy from the Orthodox perspective. In this form of Jewish historiography, dilemmas encountered by the faithful are viewed through the lens of the rabbi. She argues that the 'forgotten memoirs' embedded in rabbinic prefaces underscore their search for the meaning of events in liturgical texts and offer new knowledge about faith-based survivor perspectives.