Culture, Memory, Context: Reenactments of Traumatic Histories in Europe and Eurasia

Salamensky, S. I.

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“…(Gruber, 2002). Salamensky (2013) speaks of the Disney diaspora, of which there are two types: Jewface (includes music, dancing, and the theatre, where non-Jewish people "become" Jewish) and Jewfacade (includes museum-type objects) (Smith and Zátori, 2015). Research conducted by Podoshen and Hunt (2011) showed that Jewish people find visiting the actual site too painful and that it is wrong that the profit from Holocaust sites goes to those partially responsible for the Holocaust.…”

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Comparative analysis of Jewish heritage tourism research methods

Fiket

2023

Hrv. geogr. glas.

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Jewish heritage tourism is a relatively new form of niche tourism which appeared in Europe in the 1990s, because of a renewed understanding of cultural and historical values of Jewish heritage. By its inclusion in tourism, Jewish heritage has become a visible component in destinations, which has led to the renovation of synagogues, opening of Jewish museums, organization of festivals, and also to the gentrification of neglected Jewish quarters in many European cities. The goal of this paper is to analyse the most common methods, selection of stakeholders, elements, research locations and spatial scope used in studies of Jewish heritage tourism. The analysis includes 28 scientific papers from databases and focuses on the research methods used in those papers. The results show that the most common methods used in studies of Jewish heritage tourism are content analysis and interviews. These methods have proven to be suitable for determining the state and representation of Jewish heritage in each destination, while for a higher level of integration of Jewish heritage in tourism, other methods are more appropriate.

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Section: Komparativna Analiza Metoda Istraživanja Turizma žIdovske Ba...mentioning

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Comparative analysis of Jewish heritage tourism research methods

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2023

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“…Like the film discussed by Hersonski and Melamed, the past remains 'unfinished' and can consequently be unraveled again and again. Like the figure of the Jew in Spanish communities of memory, the past itself is "a creature of the ether, everywhere but nowhere" (Salamensky 2013), impossible to grasp fully, and equally impossible to avoid. As Melamed points out in her interview, in our present encounter with the Warsaw ghetto through incomplete memory fragments, we are asked to pause and to understand, only to realize that we understand close to nothing.…”

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“…With "multidirectional" screened memories, mnemonic communities might not be those initially expected, as in the case of the revival of Jewish heritage festivals where diverse populations in Poland, Spain, and Russia-most of which have no first-person or familial ties to Jewish communities-"remember" Jewish heritage (Salamensky 2013). What sparks the memory of an absent or relocated group in any location is a complicated and varied process, which may have certain practices and in aesthetics common, but always, has a local character.…”

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Screen Memory

Freeman

Nienass

Melamed

2013

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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The traumas and catastrophes of modernity uprooted and obliterated lands, cultures, and people; and in the wake of these disasters, mnemonic practices and mnemonic communities were disrupted, dismembered, and sometimes destroyed. In response to the assaults on memory, those in the social sciences and the humanities have tried to make sense of the effects of dramatic change and mass trauma on mnemonic communities. Much of the recent scholarship on social memory centers on the globalization of memory-the tendency of some memories to gain widespread purchase transnationally and transculturally-especially those of traumatic events, such as colonial pasts, genocides, state violence, and the Holocaust. An effect of the globalization of memory is the primacy of certain memories over others; popular theoretical paradigms have emerged in recent years to broaden our understanding of the social memory of these events, such as the "politics of regret" by Jeffrey Olick (2007), "mimetic memories" by Kathleen Stewart (1996), "regimes of memory" by Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin (2003), and "multi-directional memory" by Michael Rothberg (2008) among others. We engage with these concepts and theories, but do so in order to reinvigorate an older concept of memory theory, articulated first by Sigmund Freud at the turn of the twentieth century: screen memory. Here, we argue for the concept of screen memory as a way to both conceptualize and trouble contemporary notions of social memory. In the past, screen memory has been viewed and employed rather one-dimensionally as a memory that obscures other memories by blocking or replacing them (Freud 1901). Freud argued that memories from childhood may be incorrectly recalled or recalled in a way that magnifies or

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“…Paradoxically, Jews can only serve the functional needs of an expanded Polish national identity so long as they remain an internal Other. Polish Jews in such an environment are often entirely marginalized, resulting in reified notions of Jewish alterity 6 or even "philosemitic violence." 7 In the final concluding chapter, Zubrzycki ponders how such a reality can be transcended in the context of Polish collective "memory, mythology, and nationalism" (p. 192).…”

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The “Jewish turn” in contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, civic nationalism, and the construction of a symbolic other

Zisook

2024

Sociological Forum

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Culture, Memory, Context: Reenactments of Traumatic Histories in Europe and Eurasia

Cited by 3 publications

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Comparative analysis of Jewish heritage tourism research methods

Comparative analysis of Jewish heritage tourism research methods

Screen Memory

The “Jewish turn” in contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, civic nationalism, and the construction of a symbolic other

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