History Textbooks oa the Ultra-Orthodox Society : The First Generation Kimmy Caplan One oa the tools that are used in order to aorm the collective memory oa societies in the modern era oa institutionalized education is history textbooks . Based upon a variety oa primary sources , this article discusses two history textbooks aor Haredi ( Ultra-Orthodox ) students that appeared in the mid-1940 ’s . One oa them was written by Rabbi Dr . Moses Auerbach and its three parts were published within three years ( 1944-1947 ) , and the other , written by Rabbi Meir Scheransky , consists oa eight parts that were printed over a span oa 26 years ( 1946-1972 ) . Our aim is to set aorth the historical , social , and educational circumstances within which these books were written , to present their authors and their motivations aor writing them in these contexts , and to trace certain characteristics oa their books . By doing so , we uncover several unexplored dimensions oa Israeli Haredi society in th...
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