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

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

          
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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 living deathscape of Diaspora Jewry. In the course of the voyage, students undergo a rite de passage, in which they are transformed into victims, victorious survivors, and finally witnesses of the witnesses. By viewing, touching, and smelling Holocaust-period ruins and remains, by accompanying the survivors on the sites of their suffering and survival, crying together and performing commemorative ceremonies at the death sites, students from a wide variety of family backgrounds become carriers of Shoah memory. They come to see the State and its defense as the romanticized answer to the Shoah. These voyages are a bureaucratic response to uncertainty and fluidity of identity in an increasingly globalized and fragmented society. This study adds a measured and compassionate ethical voice to ideological debates surrounding educational and cultural forms of encountering the past in contemporary Israel, and raises further questions about the representation of the Holocaust after the demise of the last living witnesses.

Table of Contents:
List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements 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 Identifying the voyage as a rite of pilgrimage The voyage as model and mirror Commemoration and collective memory Jewish memory paradigms and their Zionist transformations Territorializing Jewish history in Zionist practice Israeli social research on Shoah memory From personal trauma to social constructivism Previous research on the Poland voyages From process to product: The ethnography of the voyage Context, Structure, and Performance in the Voyages to Poland Organization of the Book Chapter 2. The historical and social context of Iraeli Shoah commemoration The history of Shoah memory in Israel Early reactions to the Shoah From the Six Day War to the Yom Kippur War Begin's rise to power: The use and abuse of Shoah memory Generational time, the search for roots, and Israeli ethnicity The Shoah in Israeli education - school textbooks and curricula Spaces and times of Israeli Shoah Commemoration Yad Vashem: monument and memory Holocaust Memorial Day: calendar and commemoration Chapter 3. The structure of the Poland voyages Origins, history, and proclaimed aim of the voyage The title of the voyage: seeking my brothers - the masa to Poland The voyage group as substitute family The Poland voyage as a masa Administration and voyage staff Voyage staff The delegation leader The guides The accompanying teachers The doctor and nurse The Polish guide and driver The survivor - witnesses Security personnel Logistic arrangements: Food, clothing, and flags The preparatory program Selection of participants The content of the preparatory program The itinerary and its implicit messages Exterior and interior space Classification of places in "exterior space": death, life, and Polish "ventilation" sites Allotment of time at sites The rhythms of time in the voyage itinerary Student expectations, Polish landscape, and guiding narratives Guides' narrative techniques From structure to performance Chapter 4. Performing the Poland voyages On the road: Walking through the Poland Voyage Recruitment and voyage preparations at Sulam High School The threshold of Poland - day one The road to Treblinka - day two "This is Treblinka Station" Tykocin: Synagogues of the past and the survivor as sheriff "See, there are no birds in this forest" Evening discussion: when do we get to the Shoah? Bus travel, ventilation and prayer - day three Kabbalat Shabbat: Orthodox Judaism as safe Zionist heritage Shabbat rest, Shabbat shopping - day four Slouching through Cracow (Non-)encounter with a Polish school Singing for home After Midnight: the staff meeting The heart of the Shoah: Auschwitz-Birkenau - day five Auschwitz I - Approaching the contested site of memory Manifesting Israel at Auschwitz Visiting the exhibition in Auschwitz I Birkenau — the Heart of the Death Camp "Honoring" the Righteous Gentile and the witnesses Ventilazia: on the road again - day six Touching the icons of death: Majdanek - day seven The visit to Majdanek Entering the site The gas chambers Shoes as relics: odour and authenticity "We’re the same children who were there at the end" Closing the circle: the final evening discussion Going home: From Warsaw to Tel Aviv - day eight Confronting the not-yet-dead Diaspora The route of victory Final ceremony: the little guy sends us on our way! Chapter 5. The ceremonies of the Poland voyages Introduction: What makes ceremonies different? Contexts of voyage ceremonies School ceremonies in Poland and Israel Sites, times, and configurations of ceremonies Representative examples of ceremony types Delegation-wide ceremonies Above the death pits, beneath the flag of Israel: the ceremony at Birkenau Warsaw: a ceremony that failed Bus-group ceremonies: "Every person has a name" Individual ritual acts "Honoring" ceremonies for Righteous Gentiles and witnesses Religious texts and the commemorative ceremonies The close of the ceremony: Hatikvah and the flag Ceremonies as "triggers": group crying and consolation The ceremonies: Conclusions Chapter 6. Homecoming - the transmission of Holocaust memory and Jewish-Israeli Identity Becoming a witness - the aftermath of the voyage Transmitting the voyage experience Talking about the voyage: Conversations with classmates, family, and survivors Presentations: Albums, videos, ceremonies, and the future of "witnessing" Subsequent effects of the voyage on participants Changes in attitudes towards Jewish tradition and the Diaspora The voyage and Polish others The voyage and dedication to the nation Dedication to the flag and students’ political opinions Survival by proxy and service in the Israeli army The future of the Israeli voyages to Poland Chapter 7. Holocaust memory, national identity, and transformative ritual Conclusions: Poland voyages as national pilgrimages Cosmopolitan and nationalist memories of the Shoah in the ages of representations The Poland voyages and modern state ritual: An event that models promoted by a bureaucracy Models and mirrors, bodies and texts The risks of transformatory events in bureaucracies Afterword Appendix: The orthodox delegations to Poland Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845453626
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 184545362X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 607 gr


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