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Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag
- Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity
Engelsk Hardback
Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag
- Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity
Engelsk Hardback

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Israeli youth voyages to Poland are one of the most popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. Through intensive participant observation, group discussions, student diaries, and questionnaires, the author demonstrates how the State shapes Poland into a living deathscape of Diaspora Jewry. In the course of the voyage, students undergo a rite de passage, in which they are transformed into victims, victorious survivors, and finally witnesses of the witnesses. By viewing, touching, and smelling Holocaust-period ruins and remains, by accompanying the survivors on the sites of their suffering and survival, crying together and performing commemorative ceremonies at the death sites, students from a wide variety of family backgrounds become carriers of Shoah memory. They come to see the State and its defense as the romanticized answer to the Shoah. These voyages are a bureaucratic response to uncertainty and fluidity of identity in an increasingly globalized and fragmented society. This study adds a measured and compassionate ethical voice to ideological debates surrounding educational and cultural forms of encountering the past in contemporary Israel, and raises further questions about the representation of the Holocaust after the demise of the last living witnesses.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
328
ISBN-13:
9781845453626
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
184545362X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 apr 2008
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
1 apr 2008
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