Israel and the Holocaust
Avinoam Patt examines the relationship between two of the most significant events in modern Jewish history, the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. While there may be no direct causal connection between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state in 1948, the memory of the Holo...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London : Bloomsbury Academic,
2024
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Perspectives on the Holocaust
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| Schlagworte: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Middle Eastern history The Holocaust Israel Staat Gründung Nationalsozialismus Judenvernichtung Kollektives Gedächtnis Geschichte 1933-2023 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Avinoam Patt examines the relationship between two of the most significant events in modern Jewish history, the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. While there may be no direct causal connection between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state in 1948, the memory of the Holocaust has been a constant presence in Israeli politics, culture, and society since even before 1948. 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781350188389 1350188387 9781350188365 1350188360 9781350188372 1350188379 9781350188341 1350188344 9781350188358 1350188352 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350188389 |