18 Facts About Esther Farbstein

Esther Farbstein is an Israeli historian, researcher, author, and lecturer.

Esther Farbstein has introduced new sources for academic research on the Holocaust, and has shepherded the incorporation of Holocaust education in Haredi girls schools.

Esther Farbstein is the author of numerous books, articles, and monographs in Hebrew and English.

Esther Farbstein completed her undergraduate studies at Bar-Ilan University and earned a master's degree in Contemporary Jewry from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Esther Farbstein wrote her 1984 master's thesis under the direction of Israeli Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer, on the subject "The Rescue of Hasidic Leaders in the Holocaust Era".

Esther Farbstein worked for many years as a master teacher at the Horeb Girls School in Jerusalem.

Esther Farbstein is considered the leading Haredi scholar of the Holocaust.

Esther Farbstein's research focuses on the spiritual response of Jews to Nazi persecution.

Esther Farbstein promotes a third option: that the rabbinical leaders themselves were unaware of the great danger hanging over European Jewry.

Esther Farbstein has discovered new sources for academic research on the Holocaust.

Together with Dr Nathan Cohen of Bar-Ilan University, Esther Farbstein located more than 100 rabbinical works which include personal Holocaust accounts in the preface, and entered them into a database called the Rabbis' Memoirs Project.

Esther Farbstein asked each of her lecture audiences over a period of years if they knew anyone who had heard that shofar-blowing.

Esther Farbstein has been a driving force behind the integration of Holocaust studies into the curriculum of religious girls schools.

Esther Farbstein conducts teacher-training seminars in the Bais Yaakov school system, some Hasidic school systems such as Vizhnitz and Belz, and the Yad Vashem school for teachers of the Holocaust.

Esther Farbstein produces study modules and short documentary films to aid in Holocaust education.

Esther Farbstein believes her academic approach takes Holocaust studies out of the realm of the "emotional", and into "orderly historical knowledge".

In 2012, Esther Farbstein created an online tournament to test Israeli high school students on their knowledge of Holocaust events.

Esther Farbstein is married to Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Farbstein, currently rosh yeshiva of the Hebron Yeshiva.