Site of amnesia: the lost historical consciousness of Mizrahi Jewry : : representation of the experience of the Jews of North Africa and the Middle East during World War II in Israeli, European and Middle Eastern film and t

• VerfasserIn: Kozlovsky-Golan, Yvonne,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 64.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 pages)

This study deepens our historical understanding of the North-African Jewish and Middle Eastern Jewish experience during WWII, which is often under- or mis-represented by the media in Israel, the Arab world, France, and Italy. Public, historical and sociocultural discourse is examined to clarify whether these communities are accepted by the world as \'Holocaust survivors\'. Further, it determines the extent to which their wartime history is revealed to Israeli society in its cultural performances. Importantly, this work addresses the reasons why the Holocaust of North African Jewry is absent from Israeli and world consciousness. Finally, the study contemplates the consequences of these phenomena for Israeli society as well as in the colonial countries of France and Italy.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Frontispiece -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Audio-Visual Footnotes to an Absent Historic Narrative: Symbiosis between the Holocaust and Audio-Visual Media -- Historic Awareness, Media and Knowledge -- A Missing Understanding, 1945 to the 1990s -- Documentary, Feature Films and Fiction: Allied Filming during the North African Campaign: between Testimonies and Visual Documentation -- Lost Stories -- European Television and Cinema -- Partial Collective Memory -- A Tradition without a Past -- Betrayal of the Intellectuals -- Israeli Television and Cinema -- Film and Television Representations of Other Countries in the Middle East -- Present Absentees -- Community and Individual Resistance -- Approximate Israeli Creation -- Within Us – an Additional Aspect of the Wartime Experience -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.