Anxious Histories : : Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century /

Anxious Histories : : Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century / / Jordana Silverstein.

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Over the last seventy years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. The author explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Bringing together a diverse...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Silverstein, Jordana,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Holocaust Historiography, Anxiety and the Formulations of a Diasporic Jewishness
  • Chapter 1 ‘Don’t Ever Think That It Can’t Happen Again’ Memories of the Holocaust, Anxieties of Difference
  • Chapter 2 ‘I Think It Makes It More Real That Way’ Chronology, Survivor Testimony and the Holocaust
  • Chapter 3 ‘From the Utter Depth of Degradation to the Apogee of Bliss’ Uncanny and Mimicking Diasporic Zionism
  • Chapter 4 ‘There Is No Doubt That It Was a Jewish Experience’ The Forgetfulness of a Haunting Settler Colonialism
  • Chapter 5 ‘Why the Role of Women Was Any More Special Than the Role of the Rest of Them’ Circumscribing Jewish Femininity in Holocaust Pedagogies
  • Conclusion ‘It’s an Unusual Topic You’ve Chosen’ Negotiating Emplacement through History-Making
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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