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ABOVE THE DEATH PITS, BENEATH THE FLAG
YOUTH VOYAGES TO POLAND AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ISRAELI NATIONAL IDENTITY |
| By: |
Jackie Feldman |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£99.00 |
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£94.05 |
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| ISBN 10: |
184545362X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845453626 |
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| Publisher: |
BERGHAHN BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
15 April, 2008 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
Israeli youth voyages to Poland are popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. This work demonstrates how the State shapes Poland into a living deathscape of Diaspora Jewry. In the course of the voyage, they are transformed into victims, victorious survivors and finally witnesses of the witnesses. |
| Synopsis: |
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; accompanying the survivors on the sites of their suffering and survival, crying together and performing commemorative ceremonies at the death sites, students of 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. The 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, while raising further questions on the representation of the Holocaust after the demise of the last living witnesses. |
| Illustrations: |
27 photos, 7 tables, bibliog., index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Berghahn Books |
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Non-returnable |
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