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

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 whet...

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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)
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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.