'Jewish narrative' in Yad Vashem global Holocaust museum
TitreThe 'Jewish narrative' in Yad Vashem global Holocaust museum
Auteur
Call numberP940.53180745694/001
N° d'objet10584
Lieu de publicationLondon, England
EditeurRoutledge
Année de publication
2012
MatérielOuvrage à feuillets mobiles
NotesArticle from the journal 'Journal of Genocide Research Vol.14 No.2 pp187-213, 2012
Description
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.