Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag : : Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity / / Jackie Feldman.

Israeli youth voyages to Poland are one of the most popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. Through intensive participant observation, group discussions, student diaries, and questionnaires, the author demonstrates how the State shapes Poland into a livi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface: Seeking a Personal Past in the Deathscapes of Poland
  • Chapter 1 Introduction and Methodology: The Shoah, Jewish-Israeli Identity,* and the Voyages to Poland
  • Chapter 2 The Historical and Social Context of Israeli Shoah Commemoration
  • Chapter 3 The Structure of the Poland Voyages
  • Chapter 4 Performing the Poland Voyages
  • Chapter 5 The Ceremonies of the Poland Voyages
  • Chapter 6 Homecoming: The Transmission of Holocaust Memory and Jewish-Israeli Identity
  • Chapter 7 Holocaust Memory, National Identity, and Transformative Ritual
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: The Orthodox Delegations to Poland
  • Bibliography
  • Index