Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
מורשת ישראל; כתב-עת ליהדות לציונות ולארץ ישראל
Angaben zur Quelle:
19,1 (תשפא) 185-200
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in music
;
Popular music
;
Songs, Israeli History and criticism
;
Collective memory in music
;
National characteristics, Israeli
;
Intergenerational relations
;
Holocaust survivors
;
Children of Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
The themes of “homeland” and “a place where one belongs” are integral parts of literary works about the Holocaust, as well as of popular songs about the Holocaust. In 1988, two successful albums of Israeli popular music were released: Heat of July-August, by Shlomo Artzi and Ashes and Dust, by Yehuda Poliker. Both Artzi’s song “In Germany before the War,” and the title song of the latter album, written by Yaacov Gilad and Yehuda Poliker, describe a dialogue between sons and their mothers, Holocaust survivors. In both songs, the sons, now adult Israelis born after World War II, address their mothers, who seem to live or travel through their memories from or through a foreign land. The dialogue, which may be understood as a soliloquy, expresses ambivalent memories about belonging to a family, a nation, a homeland, and the Holocaust.This paper suggests an interpretive reading of these layers of ambivalent memories as part of the construction of a uniquely Israeli-Zionist-Jewish voice of remembrance that draws on biblical references, musical and prosodic structures and references, and Israeli cultural analysis.
Note:
With an English summary.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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