“In everlasting memory”: Individual and communal Holocaust commemoration in Israel

Baumel, Judith Tydor

doi:10.1080/13517129508719342

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“…Loshitzky (2001) suggests that there is no monolithic and stable Israeli Holocaust national narrative. She notes that the use of the Holocaust as a part of Zionist ideology has been criticized by some on the left, especially for its role in portraying Palestinians as Nazis (Baumel 1995).…”

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The Circularity of Secularity: The Sacred and the Secular in Some Contemporary Post-Holocaust Identity Narratives

Kaufman

2010

Cont Jewry

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This article explores some of the methodological and theoretical critiques concerning the meaning and measure of secularity and religiosity in contemporary Jewish identity research and compares them to critiques of secularization theory. Data from an ongoing study of contemporary post-Holocaust identity narratives of seventy American and twenty Israeli young adults between the ages of twenty and thirty are used as descriptive examples of the fluid and creative ways in which secularity and religiosity are invented and reinvented. These data offer glimpses of the ways in which young people reposition themselves within the institutional and linguistic spaces of the secular and the sacred. For many, their concerns begin with their own particular Jewishness and then often circle back to a ''secular'' and/or more universal expression of that particularity.

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Section: Some Israeli Examplesmentioning

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The Circularity of Secularity: The Sacred and the Secular in Some Contemporary Post-Holocaust Identity Narratives

Kaufman

2010

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“…Relics of war transformed into monuments created new mythic landscapes (Azaryahu 1996(Azaryahu , 2003Helphand 2002;Shamir 1996). Similarly, monuments dedicated to the commemoration of Jewish Holocaust victims introduced the theme of the genocide against the Jewish people in Europe into the Israeli landscape (Baumel 1995;Brug 2002).…”

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Zionist homelandscapes (and their constitution) in Israeli geography

Azaryahu

Golan

2004

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…The first Jewish youth delegations travelled, in 1966 and 1967, to the German concentration camps in Poland. During those years, works of literature, poetry, and theatre by survivors began gaining recognition, and Israeli non-survivor authors also began to slowly address the Holocaust and its effects in their writings (Laor, 1993;Tydor Baumel, 1995: Gertz, 2004Brutin, 2005;Holtzman, 2006).…”

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The Hero’s Wife: The Depiction of Female Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cinema Prior to the Eichmann Trial and in its Aftermath

Steir-Livny

2018

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Israeli culture in the 1940s and 1950s was dominated by ideological considerations. Zionist films, as other aspects of Eretz-Israel and Israeli culture, distinctively propagated Zionist ideas. As a consequence of their sociopolitical focus, these films neglected the complexities of the relationship between Holocaust survivors and the native Jews in Eretz-Israel. Instead, Holocaust survivors were reduced to a homogeneous entity that bore distinct negative connotations. Films depicted female Holocaust survivors as mentally unstable, unfit mothers, and often played up negative sexual stereotypes. In these films, the women were "cured" or went through a process of "purification" thanks to the Zionist establishment. Historical research often cites the trial of Adolf Eichmann (1961) as being a turning point in the Israeli public's perception of the Holocaust, and its representation in Israeli culture. This article will focus on an analysis of the film The Hero's Wife (Peter Frye, 1963) that was produced in the aftermath of the trial. It will discuss the innovative representations of this unresearched film, and will seek to answer the questions of why, and in what way, its narrative comprises a subversive antithesis to the narrative shaped by Zionist fiction films made prior to the Eichmann trial.

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“In everlasting memory”: Individual and communal Holocaust commemoration in Israel

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

The Circularity of Secularity: The Sacred and the Secular in Some Contemporary Post-Holocaust Identity Narratives

The Circularity of Secularity: The Sacred and the Secular in Some Contemporary Post-Holocaust Identity Narratives

Zionist homelandscapes (and their constitution) in Israeli geography

The Hero’s Wife: The Depiction of Female Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cinema Prior to the Eichmann Trial and in its Aftermath

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