Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
The Expulsion from Spain and the Holocaust
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1990) 1-17
Keywords:
Jews History Expulsion, 1492
;
Jewish diaspora History
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Analyzes differences in the Jewish response to the two catastrophes, particularly the fixation of the memory of the events in Jewish consciousness. Survivors of the expulsion from Spain elucidated a unified traditional response in order to recreate a vibrant Jewish community based on Jewish tradition. However, the response to the Holocaust is varied, because the Jewish community is split into segments; there are responses of individuals and of official bodies. Focuses on educators who, in looking for meaning in the terrible events of the Holocaust in order to pass it on to future generations, are distorting Jewish identity and collective memory by tying these solely to the horror and tragedy of the Holocaust. Contends that the Jewish response to catastrophe was in the past, and should be today, to look to the positive aspects of Jewish life and strive for spiritual renewal. The Holocaust must be learned and taught, and never forgotten, but if it becomes the basis of Jewish identity then it will block spiritual and cultural renewal.
Note:
Appeared in Spanish as "El exilio de España y el Holocausto; un estudio sobre la reacción espiritual del pueblo judío ante la catástrofe" in "Indice" 6 (1993) 99-135. In Hebrew:
,
"אלפיים" ג (תשנא) 69-88, וגם "על"ה - עלון למורי ההיסטוריה" 5 ( תשנב)
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