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Author Lenṭin, Ronit

Title Israel and the daughters of the Shoah : reoccupying the territories of silence / Ronit Lentin
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages)
Contents If I forget thee ... -- Introduction: the territories of silence -- 'Writing is the closing of circles' -- Breaking the conspiracy of silence -- Israel's New Hebrews 'memorise' the Jewish Shoah -- Israel's 'second-generation' -- The feminisation of stigma in the relationship between Israelis and Shoah survivors -- Counter-narratives : re-occupying the territories of silence -- Journeys end(s)
Summary The murder of a third of Europe's Jews by the Nazis is unquestionably the worst catastrophe in the history of contemporary Judaism and a formative event in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Understandably, therefore, the Shoah, written about, analyzed, and given various political interpretations, has shaped public discourse in the history of the State of Israel. The key element of Shoah in the Israeli context is victimhood and as such it has become a source of shame, shrouded in silence and subordinated to the dominant discourse which, resulting from the construction of a ""new
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-251) and index
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Children of Holocaust survivors -- Israel -- Interviews
Women -- Israel -- Interviews
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Social aspects -- Israel
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Children of Holocaust survivors
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Social aspects
Women
Judenvernichtung
Auswirkung
Politik
Geschlechterrolle
Überlebender
Tochter
Frau
Holocaust.
Herinneringen.
Tweede generatie.
Israel
Israel
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Interviews
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782388517
1782388516