Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
דפים לחקר השואה
Angaben zur Quelle:
טז (תשסא) 86-124
Keywords:
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Social psychology
;
Israel Social conditions
Abstract:
Compares Israeli perception of the Holocaust in the 1950s with that of the 1980s-90s. In the 1950s Israeli collective memory focused on cases of group heroism in the Holocaust, such as the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and largely ignored the suffering of individuals during the war. Since the 1980s, the focus has changed to individual memory, and daily survival is seen as an act of heroism. A hero is someone who overcomes hardships that other people cannot overcome; therefore, every Holocaust survivor is a hero. Paradoxically, the focus on individual memory and suffering has weakened Israelis' perception of heroism in the Holocaust. States that Israelis who negated the Diaspora in the 1950s learned to accept it in the 1980s as part of Jewish history, and that there is a growing sense that the sufferings of the Jews have unified them through the ages.
Note:
בישראל.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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