Between memory and history: the evolution of Israeli historiography of the Holocaust, 1945-1961
TitleBetween memory and history: the evolution of Israeli historiography of the Holocaust, 1945-1961
Author
Call number940.5318072/0032
Object number04381
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherPeter Lang
Year of publication
2003
Physical description139p.,index,bibliography
MaterialBook
Series titleStudies in modern European history; Vol.49
ISBN0820458058
Description
Begins with the dichotomy of perceptions of the Shoah between Jewish fighters and ordinary "survivors" in postwar Displaced Persons camps. Traces the initial silence of survivors and intellectuals, Israel's politicisation of collective memory, the 1961 Eichmann trial as thew turning point in viewing victims as heroic rather than passive and the shift since to a post-Zionist "non-conformist" perspective