Israel and the Holocaust
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18834-1 (ISBN)
The State of Israel has always existed in an uneasy relationship with the Shoah. On the one hand, Israel was faced with the challenge of taking in hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors as new citizens of the state, many of whom were discouraged from sharing their traumatic wartime experiences with their fellow citizens. On the other hand, the destruction of European Jewry and the failure of Western democracy to protect the Jewish minority in Europe seemed to vindicate the Zionist worldview, even as classical Zionism argued that the Jewish people deserved a state on the basis of their deep historical connection to the Land of Israel. By tracing the evolving relationship to the memory of Shoah, Avinoam Patt argues, we can also trace shifting conceptions of Israeli self-understanding and identity, Israel’s relationship to the wider world, its neighbors, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Jewish past. Israel and the Holocaust documents these tensions and analyses the changing nature of Israel’s relationship to the Shoah, revealing that it only seems to strengthen with the passage of time.
Avinoam Patt is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University, USA. He is the author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2009); co-editor (with Michael Berkowitz) of We are Here: New Approaches to the Study of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (2010); co-editor of Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (2020) and co-editor of Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (2020). His most recent book is The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt (2021).
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Between History and Memory
1. Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Creation of the State of Israel
2. The State of Israel and the Memory of the Holocaust, 1948-1961
3. From Eichmann to Begin, 1961-1977
4. The Centrality of the Shoah, 1979 to 2000
5. 'We Are All Survivors': Israel and the Holocaust in the 21st Century
Conclusion: Israel and the Holocaust, the Future of the Past
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Perspectives on the Holocaust |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-18834-4 / 1350188344 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-18834-1 / 9781350188341 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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