Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Tour Guides at Memorial Sites and Holocaust Museums
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 151-176
Keywords:
Sarid, Yishay,
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Menasse, Eva
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Sarid, Yishay, Criticism and interpretation
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Tour guides (Persons)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
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Holocaust memorial trips
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Hebrew fiction, Modern History and criticism
Abstract:
Yishai Sarid’s novella Mifletzet HaZikaron (The Memory Monster 2020) depicts the experiences of a young Israeli historian who guides tour groups—mainly Israeli high school students—through the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camps in Poland. Adopting a grounded theory research approach, the present article provides a theoretical sketch of the identificatory stances of such memorial site guides and how these change over time. The report of the protagonist in Sarid’s text (in the English translation) is used as data source for developing this draft. First, the concept of personal (un)connectedness with (Holocaust) memorial work is worked out. Second, a trajectory model is proposed in which personal control over the world of action and control of events by overwhelming circumstances are placed in a dynamic relationship to each other. Because the theoretical sketch is undertaken as an individual case analysis, it requires differentiation and saturation through further cases and data sources.
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