Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
1,3 (1995) 129-145
Keywords:
Political parties
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Israel Politics and government
Abstract:
The 1950s were marked by a tendency to politicize Holocaust memory in Israel. Various political parties, from the radical left to the right, exploited the issue of the Holocaust and Jewish resistance for their own purposes - either to "patronize" the Jewish fighters and to include them in the party's pantheon, or to attack the ruling Mapai party, socialists in Israel, or Zionism as such. The politicization of Holocaust memory reached its peak during the Kasztner trial in 1955, when it caused Mapai to take a defensive position. The Eichmann trial in 1961 marked a fundamental change in the attitude of Israeli society to the Holocaust and to Diaspora Jewry; it put an end to politicizing the Holocaust, and made of it a non-partisan national affair.
Note:
Appeared also in "The Shaping of Israeli Identity" (1995).
DOI:
10.1080/13517129508719341
URL:
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