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Above the death pits, beneath the flag : youth voyages to Poland and the performance of Israeli National identity /

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 livi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feldman, Jackie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 survi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 307 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index.
ISBN:9780857450074
0857450077
1282626590
9781282626591
9786612626593
6612626593