'Jewish narrative' in Yad Vashem global Holocaust museum
TitelThe 'Jewish narrative' in Yad Vashem global Holocaust museum
Forfatter
Call numberP940.53180745694/001
Objektnummer10584
UdgivelsesstedLondon, England
UdgiverRoutledge
Udgivelsesår
2012
MaterialeLoose-leaf
NoterArticle from the journal 'Journal of Genocide Research Vol.14 No.2 pp187-213, 2012
Beskrivelse
Contends that for various cultural and political reasons this museum encourages most of all identification with the Jewish victims. This morally necessary and very much justified empathy is achieved, however, in a way that blocks almost any nuanced historical understanding of the event. Thus by melancholic means the museum suppresses any otherness that would make the story of the Shoah more complex, interrupt in the melodramatic processes of identification, and destabilize the identity of the Western (individual and collective) self.