May the 'Makom' comfort you: place, Holocaust remembrance, and the creation of national identity in the Israeli Yiddish press, 1948-1961

Bar-Am looks at Holcaust remembrance and Jewish national identity in the Yiddish press in Israel in the first years of the state. One of her findings is that Holocaust survivors were not silent in this period, and not in their public self-expression in Yiddish. The survivors saw no contradiction between commemorating in Yiddish Israeli fallen soldiers and the destruction of the whole Diaspora communities all within an Israel national framework