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Jackie Feldman - Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag - 9781845453626 - V9781845453626
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Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

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Description for Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag Hardback. Israeli youth voyages to Poland are popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. This work demonstrates how the State shapes Poland into a living deathscape of Diaspora Jewry. In the course of the voyage, they are transformed into victims, victorious survivors and finally witnesses of the witnesses. Num Pages: 328 pages, 27 photos, 7 tables, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1FBH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845453626
SKU
V9781845453626
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About Jackie Feldman
Jackie Feldman lectures in Social Anthropology at Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel. His areas of interest are anthropology of religion, collective memory, pilgrimage, and tourism. He has published on Holocaust memory and pilgrimages to the Second Temple and worked as a tour guide for Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land.

Reviews for Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag
“Jackie Feldman’s book presents a fascinating and robust ethnographic study of Israeli youth voyages to Poland. Utilizing a most impressive array of methods, including participant observation, group discussion, content analysis of student diaries, and questionnaires, Feldman proposes that youth voyages may be unpacked as state-orchestrated civil religious rites of passage serving to transform Israeli youth, many of whom cannot trace ... Read more

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