Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
פוליטיקה; כתב עת למדע המדינה וליחסים בינלאומיים
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (תשנח) 27-46
Keywords:
Education
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
;
Ethnic groups
Abstract:
A paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Association of Israel Studies convened in Boston in June 1996. The principal of the Kedma academic high school in Tel-Aviv, Sam Shalom Shetreet, decided in 1995 to modify the traditional ceremony commemorating the Holocaust on Yom Hashoah in Israeli public schools by lighting a seventh torch, in addition to the six in memory of the six million Jewish victims, to commemorate other genocides and to protest against racism, thereby highlighting the universal aspects of the Holocaust. The act incited a public debate regarding commemoration of the Holocaust, ways to emphasize its uniqueness, the existence of progressive schools like "Kedmah, " and possible interpretations of the act. The school was established by Jews of Oriental origin who aspire to promote Oriental Jews who they allege are deprived of opportunities for promotion and to preserve their ethnic culture. Focuses on the Kedma school and surveys the events surrounding the ceremony on Yom Hashoah and the public debate which followed.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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