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

Jordana Silverstein

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Description:Over the last 70 years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. This book explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Bringing together a diverse range of critical approaches, including memory studies, gender studies, diaspora theory, and settler colonial studies, Anxious Histories complicates the stories being told about the Holocaust in these Jewish schools and their broader communities. It demonstrates that an anxious thread runs throughout these historical narratives, as the pedagogy negotiates feelings of simultaneous belonging and not-belonging in the West and in Zionism. In locating that anxiety, the possibilities and the limitations of narrating histories of the Holocaust are opened up once again for analysis, critique, discussion, and development. “[This book] addresses an extremely difficult and complex theme, one which (to my knowledge) has not been focused on in a sustained way before: the pedagogy of the Holocaust in Diaspora Jewish secondary schools, especially vis-à-vis Zionism. It contains fascinating material and much of the analysis is provocative and worthwhile.” · Jonathan Boyarin, Cornell University“What is so interesting and admirable is the way the author probes and explores various conceptual and methodological questions, problematizing rather than imposing absolute judgements, and always writing with sympathy and empathy and a subtle awareness of possible contradictions…from the first sentence of the Introduction the reader realizes that the book is beautifully written, often idiomatic and conversational and engagingly personal.” · John Docker, The University of SydneyJordana Silverstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, with the ARC Laureate Fellowship Project “Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism: 1920 to the Present.” She is coeditor of In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation (Vallentine Mitchell, 2015) and has published widely on Holocaust memory and histories of Jewish identity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century. To get started finding Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 292

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Publisher: Berghahn Books

Release: 2015

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Description: Over the last 70 years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. This book explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Bringing together a diverse range of critical approaches, including memory studies, gender studies, diaspora theory, and settler colonial studies, Anxious Histories complicates the stories being told about the Holocaust in these Jewish schools and their broader communities. It demonstrates that an anxious thread runs throughout these historical narratives, as the pedagogy negotiates feelings of simultaneous belonging and not-belonging in the West and in Zionism. In locating that anxiety, the possibilities and the limitations of narrating histories of the Holocaust are opened up once again for analysis, critique, discussion, and development. “[This book] addresses an extremely difficult and complex theme, one which (to my knowledge) has not been focused on in a sustained way before: the pedagogy of the Holocaust in Diaspora Jewish secondary schools, especially vis-à-vis Zionism. It contains fascinating material and much of the analysis is provocative and worthwhile.” · Jonathan Boyarin, Cornell University“What is so interesting and admirable is the way the author probes and explores various conceptual and methodological questions, problematizing rather than imposing absolute judgements, and always writing with sympathy and empathy and a subtle awareness of possible contradictions…from the first sentence of the Introduction the reader realizes that the book is beautifully written, often idiomatic and conversational and engagingly personal.” · John Docker, The University of SydneyJordana Silverstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, with the ARC Laureate Fellowship Project “Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism: 1920 to the Present.” She is coeditor of In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation (Vallentine Mitchell, 2015) and has published widely on Holocaust memory and histories of Jewish identity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century. To get started finding Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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