Memory and Ethnicity

Ethnic Museums in Israel and the Diaspora

Dario Miccoli, Emanuela Trevisan Semi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2013 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-5252-4 (ISBN)

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In recent times, ethnicity and issues of origin have become a hotly debated topic among Jews both in Israel and in the Diaspora. This is particularly true both of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, who for years had remained at the margins of the Israeli national narrative, as well as the Israeli Palestinian minority. Much the same may be said of Diaspora Jews.Among the public spaces where ethnicity has become more visible are museums, together with heritage centres, art galleries, and the Internet. The aim of Memory and Ethnicity is to investigate how ethnicity is represented and narrated in such spaces. How have groups of Jews from such different backgrounds as Morocco, Egypt, India or the US elaborated their past legacies and traditions vis-à-vis a variety of national narratives and cultural or political ideologies? This volume describes the emergence of a new museological scene – that mirrors a multi-vocal Jewish and Israeli public sphere in which ethnicity has become central to a nation’s cultural imagination. By considering museums as “places of memory” where an ethnic/communal identity is displayed, Memory and Ethnicity analyses which memories are preserved, and which suppressed. This study sets out to enrich the understanding of Israeli and Jewish cultural history, and also to deepen the field of museum studies from little investigated perspectives.

Emanuela Trevisan Semi is Professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Dario Miccoli is Research Fellow in Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Tudor Parfitt is Distinguished Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University and Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.

Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4438-5252-X / 144385252X
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-5252-4 / 9781443852524
Zustand	Neuware