Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Name: Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity
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ISBN: 9781845455699

ISBN-10: 184545569X

ISBN-13: 9781845455699

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jackie Feldman

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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, by accompanying the survivors on the sites of their suffering and survival, crying together and performing commemorative…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.70" wide x 8.75" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English