Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
אלפיים; כתב עת רב-תחומי לעיון, הגות וספרות
Angaben zur Quelle:
14 (תשנז) 148-173
Keywords:
רפופורט, נתן,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Warsaw (Poland) History Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
Abstract:
Relates the history of the Warsaw Ghetto Monument, sculptured by Natan Rapoport and unveiled in Warsaw in 1948, and its recasting in Israel in 1975 (at Yad Vashem). Describes differences in the two monuments, differences which were intended to evoke different ideas in different viewers and in different cultural contexts. The monument in Poland has become not just a memorial to the Jewish fighters; it is recognized as a national Polish memorial. The setting up of the monument in Israel was delayed by ideological disputes regarding the appropriate symbols for integration into the collective memory, which related sacrifice and heroism to the struggle for survival in Eretz Israel, and not to survival in the diaspora. Social and conceptual changes brought on by the wars of 1967 and 1973 generated appreciation of the ghetto fighters, thereby allowing their integration into the collective memory and the adoption of the monument as a cultural symbol. Includes a biographical sketch of Natan Rapoport.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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