'Jewish narrative' in Yad Vashem global Holocaust museum
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The 'Jewish narrative' in Yad Vashem global Holocaust museum
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call numberP940.53180745694/001
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10584
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]London, England
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Routledge
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2012
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Loose-leaf
NotesArticle from the journal 'Journal of Genocide Research Vol.14 No.2 pp187-213, 2012
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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.