Language:
French
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,2 (1998) 40-58
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Most historians claim that Israelis tended to ignore the Holocaust in the 1950s, and that it entered public consciousness only in the 1960s-70s. Refutes this theory, maintaining that, although the people and government of Israel were busy setting up the state, there was commemoration of the Holocaust and it was an important element in the national consciousness. In 1953 the Knesset enacted a law establishing Yad Vashem and the day of remembrance, Yom Hashoah. The Kasztner trial in 1954 and his murder in 1957 were focal points of interest, and aroused public debate. However, the personal, human aspects of the Holocaust were repressed, partly because building the new state was considered more important than mourning the past. Gradually, the survivors began to demand recognition of their past. The same process occurred in other countries; memoirs and testimonies became popular in the 1980s-90s, inter alia because of the age of the survivors and their ability to contend with the past.
Note:
In Hebrew: "Zmanim" 57 (1997). In French: "Cahiers du Judaïsme" 4 (1999).
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