Emerging Scholars talk with Alison Curry, UNC Department of History

In early twentieth-century Poland, care for the Jewish dead was a central part of Jewish communal life. Though the hevrah kadisha, or burial society, traditionally handled all aspects of the burial and funeral, reports of corruption in these organizations during the interwar period led to the establishment of a new form of burial organization, intent on providing free, respectable care for the deceased. This presentation will explore how corruption forever altered burial practices in Polish Jewish communities, resulting the creation of an entirely new Jewish funerary industry by the time of the Second World War.

Registration required: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu