“The Two Gaze Directly into One Another's Face”: Avot Yeshurun between the Nakba and the Shoah—An Israeli Perspective

Hever, Hannan

doi:10.2979/jewisocistud.18.3.153

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“…This line is harder to draw when one uses a more capacious understanding of deliberation. As stated earlier, connecting the Holocaust and the Nakba in novels, poetry (Hever 2012) and video installations (Confino 2018) is a form of deliberation on memory. These works are dialogical because they dramatize an encounter between both tragedies.…”

Section: The Holocaust and The Nakba: Memory As An Object Of Conflimentioning

confidence: 94%

Postnational memory: Narrating the Holocaust and the Nakba

Khoury

2019

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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At the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rages a struggle between two foundational tragedies: the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba. The contending ways in which both events are commemorated is a known feature of the conflict. Less known are marginal attempts to jointly deliberate on them. This article draws on such attempts to theorize a postnational conception of memory. Deliberating on the Holocaust and the Nakba, it argues, challenges the way nationalism structures ‘our’ and ‘their’ relationship to the past. While nationalism seeks the congruence of memory and territory, postnationalism challenges this congruence. Doing so entails (i) extending the communicative bounds of memory beyond national members, (ii) disrupting the territorialization of memory along national lines, and (iii) critically revising national narratives in light of a cosmopolitan memory. The article explores these three dimensions and offers a typology that differentiates the way nationalism and postnationalism mediate our relationship to the past.

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Section: The Holocaust and The Nakba: Memory As An Object Of Conflimentioning

confidence: 94%