Journal Title
Title of Journal: Cont Jewry
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Abbravation: Contemporary Jewry
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Adam S Ferziger
Publish Date: 2010/11/26
Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-54
Abstract
The article describes and analyzes the evolution of trips to Poland for posthigh school American Orthodox young adults studying in Israel It contends that beyond exposing the students to aspects of the Holocaust in an unusually visceral and intense manner these excursions increasingly serve as “pilgrimages of particularistic Orthodox identity” Indeed while they are aimed at products of Modern Orthodox homes and schools over time they have adopted some of the religious stances and celebrated Jewish cultural models that were heretofore more consistent with haredi Orthodox practice and ideals As such these voyages offer insight and may even play a role in the process of religious intensification of American Modern Orthodoxy that has been examined from a broader sociological and historical point of view by a number of prominent scholarsAn initial version of this paper was presented at the international conference “Echoes of a Century Jews Modernism and the Holocaust” The University of Texas at Dallas February 2008 I am grateful to my colleagues and friends Professor Judy BaumelSchwartz Dr Shalom Berger and Dr Joshua A Berman as well as the editors and reviewers of Contemporary Jewry for considering earlier renditions and offering thoughtful comments and suggestions that led to an improved final product
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