The seventh million: the Israelis and the Holocaust

Mendelsohn, Ezra

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“…Globally, the Eichmann trial became one of the most high‐profile trials of the century (e.g., Arendt, 1963). In Israel, it has had a huge effect on popular and political culture, and has been a pivotal moment in developing and sustaining Holocaust consciousness as a major and lasting component of national life (Segev, 2000). The trial was exceptional in activating the law's unusual aspects – prosecuting a non‐citizen kidnapped from another country for crimes committed before the establishment of the state – and in its construction as a public pedagogy event (Douglas, 2001).…”

Section: The Peculiar Case Of the Israeli Death Penaltymentioning

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Symbolic laws, de facto abolitions and path dependence: When death penalty policies remain stable

Dudai

2023

Howard J Crime Justice

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There is a growing tendency to perceive the death penalty as always ‘on the move’, often in a teleological trajectory inevitably leading to universal abolition. This article aims to question this tendency, noting that in many cases death penalty policies remain stable, especially in cases of de facto abolition. Such cases are overlooked in the literature, treated as brief interludes towards full abolition, though in fact they can be enduring and serve important symbolic functions. Informed by the historical‐institutional approach, which rejects teleology in favour of path dependence and contingency, the article focuses on the Israeli case, where since 1967 the death penalty remained a lawful option in military courts with jurisdiction over Palestinians, but never applied. I argue that such remarkable stability is not due to inertia, but an unanticipated result of contingent events and processes leading over time to entrenchment of a ‘limbo’ arrangement, which constitute intentional, functional, policy.

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Section: The Peculiar Case Of the Israeli Death Penaltymentioning

confidence: 99%

Symbolic laws, de facto abolitions and path dependence: When death penalty policies remain stable

Dudai

2023

Howard J Crime Justice

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“…There is hardly a single day that passes in which I do not think of what happened there. 12 Guri's sensitivity to the Holocaust stands in contrast to his generation's alienation from survivors, associated with the Zionist movement's critical attitude toward the Jews who remained in the Diaspora (Dror, 1996;Segev, 1993). 13 Guri was ahead of his time.…”

Section: Drawing Authority From the 1948 Warmentioning

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The intergenerational hero: Carrier of a bonding memory

Ben-Ze’ev

Lomsky‐Feder

2022

Memory Studies

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In the present era of fragmentation and instability, there is an urge to recreate “islands of solidarity,” sometimes by establishing what we define as “intergenerational heroes.” They are expected to carry a bonding memory, interpreting the past in light of present challenges and future dreams. The media fashions the role of these heroes following their death. By examining the reportage of Haim Guri, a prominent Israeli poet, we decode the character of the intergenerational hero. Through a qualitative analysis of articles and visual images, we discovered four qualities: First, he embodies a generational foundational event, drawing moral authority from having “been there.” Second, he establishes strong bonds with other generational units. Third, throughout his life he is immersed in public events, and fourth, he is portrayed as consisting of inherently contradictory traits that attract a variety of audiences. We conclude by considering the “shelf life” of the intergenerational hero.

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“…Many students participate in organised trips to Poland to join the March of the Living during their last year of high school (Feldman, 2002). The memory of the Holocaust is often invoked by the Israeli political leadership as a factor in its foreign relations and in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Segev, 2000). Finally, over 90% of Israelis have visited Yad Vashem at least once (Kook, 2022).…”

Section: Holocaust Remembrance In Israel-a Brief Overviewmentioning

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“…The memory of the Holocaust has remained a source of ethnic division between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi communities, starting in the early 1950s with the arrival of Mizrahi Jews from North Africa, including Libya and Tunisia, whose communities had indeed suffered directly from the Nazi occupation of their countries. In the context of the larger cultural hegemony, the narrative of official Holocaust memory was defined largely by European Ashkenazi Jews, who established the key commemorative institutions, designed the commemorative practices and, more importantly, wrote the narrative of remembrance, which reflected exclusively the European Jewish experience (Segev, 2000). Hence, despite attempts on the part of representatives from the North African communities for recognition of their suffering, their demands remained unrecognised and unacknowledged (Yablonka, 2009).…”

Section: Holocaust Remembrance In Israel—the Ethnic Dividementioning

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“Don't cry, it doesn't belong to us”; critical thoughts on commemoration as a means of inclusion: Mizrahi Jews and Holocaust memory in Israel

Kook

Solomon

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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Efforts to incorporate the collective memories of minority communities into national memory narratives are viewed as an integral part of efforts to revive democracy, while contributing to social integration and equality. In this context, the inclusion of minority histories is increasingly being mandated by law and policy in many countries. Recently, Israel passed memory laws that set out to include the previously excluded history of its North African minority communities into the larger Israeli national memory narrative of the Holocaust. In this essay, we ask whether, and in what ways, this change in the national memory narrative has quelled feelings of alienation experienced by members of these minorities and increased feelings of national belonging. Based on group interviews conducted with members of Jewish North African communities in Israel, we demonstrate that feelings of exclusion from the national remembrance narrative linger, despite the efforts of the State.

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The seventh million: the Israelis and the Holocaust

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Symbolic laws, de facto abolitions and path dependence: When death penalty policies remain stable

Symbolic laws, de facto abolitions and path dependence: When death penalty policies remain stable

The intergenerational hero: Carrier of a bonding memory

“Don't cry, it doesn't belong to us”; critical thoughts on commemoration as a means of inclusion: Mizrahi Jews and Holocaust memory in Israel

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