The ninety-three Bais Yaakov girls of Cracow: history or typology?

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz; Jacob J Schacter

The ninety-three Bais Yaakov girls of Cracow: history or typology?

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
, Jacob J Schacter

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

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Abstract

Analyzes a story about 93 students of the Bais Yaakov religious Jewish girls' high school in Kraków who, in July 1942, opted to commit suicide rather than be sent to a brothel for German soldiers. Many scholars doubt the authenticity of this story. It is impossible now to conclude whether this story of Jewish martyrdom is true or not. However, the girls' action conforms with the religious pattern of Jewish acts of "kiddush ha-Shem" (sanctification of God's name). Because of that, the story entered into religious Jewish poetry and fiction, was embellished with additional details, and was thus mythologized. Notes that the story helps modern Jewish theology to integrate the Holocaust into the age-old tradition of Jewish martyrdom.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reverence, Righteousness, and "Rahamanut"
Pages	93-130
Number of pages	38
State	Published - 1992

Bibliographical note

Appeared also in her "Double Jeopardy" (1998).

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Historiography
Jewish girls -- Poland
Jewish legends -- Poland
Jewish women in the Holocaust -- Poland
Jews -- Poland -- Krakow -- History -- 20th century
Martyrdom -- Judaism

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