Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Neue Politische Literatur
Angaben zur Quelle:
39,3 (1994) 413-422
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Analyzes the emphases and biases of Israeli historiography of the Holocaust between 1983-93, mainly as represented in three periodicals: "Yad Vashem", "Yalkut Moreshet", and "Yahadut Zemanenu". Remarks that "Yahadut Zemanenu" covers a wider range of topics than the two others and has paid special attention to the attitude of the Jewish Yishuv to the Diaspora and the Holocaust. "Yad Vashem", and especially "Yalkut Moreshet", concentrate on the victims rather than the perpetrators, hold to an intentionalist explanation of the Final Solution, paint Germans all black and Jews all white, and ignore new trends in European and American historiography that try to arrive at a more complex understanding by sociological methods. "Yad Vashem" publishes many European essays in translation, but selects mainly those that conform to its own traditional approach. Suggests that representation of the Holocaust serves political and cultural purposes in Israel and will change only with changes in Israeli society.
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