Liat Steir-Livny
Biographic Data
| ID | 295013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liat Steir-Livny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liat |
| FAMILY NAME | Steir-Livny |
| SIGNATURE | STEIR-LIVNY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapir College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3210-0335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration
Animated documentaries dealing with the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, and their descendants constitute a new phenomenon and inaugurate a new field of Holocaust commemoration. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries. It explores movies produced in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, and Israel. Based on theories developed in the fields of animated documentary, Holocaust studies, cinema studies, trauma st…
Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration
Examines representations of the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors and their descendants in animated documentaries The book is the first comprehensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries Analyses films that were not researched before Discusses case studies from the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, and Israel Interdisciplinary research that brings together Film studies, Animation Studies, Holocaust Studies, Trauma Studies, and Memory Studies A…
Ghettos and Camps
This chapter explores how the vast majority of directors refrain from representing horror even though they can capitalize on the ability of animation to represent the unfilmed past from the victims’ point of view, rather making sure nothing is presented as too alarming or shocking. Movies that depict ghettos, concentration camps, labor camps, and extermination camps do not necessarily show the atrocities at the dreadful sites where Jews were star…
Traumatic past in the present: Covid-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media
The COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, spread to the rest of the world in 2020 and still holds nations in its grip in 2021. There is scant research on the way it has affected Holocaust awareness. Based on scholarly work on Holocaust awareness in Israel, the top-down memory of the Holocaust in the media and the vernacular Holocaust memory on social media, this article analyzes the ways the Holocaust became a frame of reference in Israel for the inte…
One Trauma, Two Narratives: Adamah versus Tomorrow's a Wonderful Day
In the three years after World War II, prominent Jewish organizations in the United States and in the Land of Israel made films aimed at promoting Zionist goals. The film Adamah (Helmar Lerski, 1948) was produced in the Land of Israel with the support of the Jewish-American volunteer women's organization Hadassah. It tells the rehabilitation story of Benjamin, a Holocaust survivor in the Land of Israel. When the final version was sent to Hadassah…
Eva.stories: Disrespect or a Successful Change in Holocaust Memory
eva.stories is an Israeli Instagram project. Entrepreneur Mati Kochavi and his daughter, Maya, adapted the diary of thirteen-year-old Eva Heyman, a Jewish Hungarian girl who was murdered in Auschwitz, into Instagram stories that were uploaded to Instagram on the Israeli Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in 2019. Combining the Holocaust with Instagram, a social network service that is highly popular among young people and is associate…
The Illegals: A unique but overlooked historical documentation of illegal immigration
The Illegals (Meir Levin, 1948), which was produced by Americans for the Haganah (AFH) is the only film to provide real-time documentation of these survivors’ attempts to immigrate illegally to Palestine. However, despite the film's significance as a unique visual document, it was not screened when it most mattered, before the founding of the State of Israel, and over the years has been marginalized in the Zionist collective memory and in Zionist…
Remembrance in the Living Room [ Zikaron b’Salon ]: Grassroots gatherings as new forms of Holocaust commemoration in Israel
Remembrance in the Living Room is a Jewish-Israeli social initiative providing an intimate format for commemoration on the eve of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance day, in the privacy of people’s homes. This initiative, which was launched in 2011 soon overshadowed other alternative ceremonies. The article analyses the way these gatherings differ from the performative acts of canonical and alternative ceremonies and suggests new strategies …
Looking beyond the victims: Descendants of the perpetrators in Hitler ’ s Children
Hitler’s Children (Chanoch Ze’evi, 2011) is the first Israeli documentary dedicated to the topic of descendants of Nazis. This article analyzes cinematic and ethical choices in mediating a notably painful subject for Israeli audiences. It claims that the emphasis on reconciliation and the focus on descendants who acknowledge and express remorse for their parents’ roles in the Holocaust set a cinematic tenor of confession and guilt. The similar pe…
Is it OK to laugh about it yet? Hitler Rants YouTube parodies in Hebrew
The Holocaust was and remains a central trauma in Israel’s collective memory. For many years, the perception was that a humorous approach to the Holocaust might threaten the sanctity of its memory. Official agents of the Holocaust memory continue to believe in this approach, but since the 1990s, a new unofficial path of memory began taking shape in tandem with it. It is an alternative and subversive path that seeks to remember – but differently. …
Holocaust Humor, Satire, and Parody on Israeli Television
The politicization of the Holocaust has been reflected in Israeli culture from the late 1940s in cinema, literature, theater, and poetry; in the last several decades, it has also been depicted on Israeli television. Most of the representations of the Holocaust in the first decades of Israel's existence were dramatic. But from the 1990s onward, Israelis also began to address the subject through satire. The case studies in this article focus on the…
The Jewish Works of Sayed Kashua Subversive or Subordinate
This article discusses the place of Hebrew and Jewish images and stereotypes in the works of the Israeli-Arab Hebrew writer Sayed Kashua. When describing his Arab protagonists, Kashua portrays both the stereotype of the oppressed Diaspora Jew, who is trying to blend in and hide his identity, and the stereotype of the Israeli Jew, the image that many of Kashua's protagonists aspire to imitate. The article argues that adopting those images and ster…
Qui criait au loup ? Comment Zeev Jabotinsky perçut-il l’Allemagne nazie et son projet
Both Israeli historians concentrate on proving what, according to them, is nothing but a myth created by adepts of revisionist Zionism : the legend of an extra-clairvoyant Jabotinsky who foresaw the rise of Nazi Germany and the fate of European Jewry.Quoting chapter and verse, they try to prove a contrario Jabotinsky’s ambiguity, i.e. his alternating between well-founded inquietude concerning the fate of the Jews, and his catastrophic underestima…
Traumatic past in the present: Covid-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media
The COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, spread to the rest of the world in 2020 and still holds nations in its grip in 2021. There is scant research on the way it has affected Holocaust awareness. Based on scholarly work on Holocaust awareness in Israel, the top-down memory of the Holocaust in the media and the vernacular Holocaust memory on social media, this article analyzes the ways the Holocaust became a frame of reference in Israel for the inte…
Remembrance in the Living Room [ Zikaron b’Salon ]: Grassroots gatherings as new forms of Holocaust commemoration in Israel
Remembrance in the Living Room is a Jewish-Israeli social initiative providing an intimate format for commemoration on the eve of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance day, in the privacy of people’s homes. This initiative, which was launched in 2011 soon overshadowed other alternative ceremonies. The article analyses the way these gatherings differ from the performative acts of canonical and alternative ceremonies and suggests new strategies …
Holocaust Humor, Satire, and Parody on Israeli Television
The politicization of the Holocaust has been reflected in Israeli culture from the late 1940s in cinema, literature, theater, and poetry; in the last several decades, it has also been depicted on Israeli television. Most of the representations of the Holocaust in the first decades of Israel's existence were dramatic. But from the 1990s onward, Israelis also began to address the subject through satire. The case studies in this article focus on the…
Eva.stories: Disrespect or a Successful Change in Holocaust Memory
eva.stories is an Israeli Instagram project. Entrepreneur Mati Kochavi and his daughter, Maya, adapted the diary of thirteen-year-old Eva Heyman, a Jewish Hungarian girl who was murdered in Auschwitz, into Instagram stories that were uploaded to Instagram on the Israeli Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in 2019. Combining the Holocaust with Instagram, a social network service that is highly popular among young people and is associate…
Is it OK to laugh about it yet? Hitler Rants YouTube parodies in Hebrew
The Holocaust was and remains a central trauma in Israel’s collective memory. For many years, the perception was that a humorous approach to the Holocaust might threaten the sanctity of its memory. Official agents of the Holocaust memory continue to believe in this approach, but since the 1990s, a new unofficial path of memory began taking shape in tandem with it. It is an alternative and subversive path that seeks to remember – but differently. …
Qui criait au loup ? Comment Zeev Jabotinsky perçut-il l’Allemagne nazie et son projet
Both Israeli historians concentrate on proving what, according to them, is nothing but a myth created by adepts of revisionist Zionism : the legend of an extra-clairvoyant Jabotinsky who foresaw the rise of Nazi Germany and the fate of European Jewry.Quoting chapter and verse, they try to prove a contrario Jabotinsky’s ambiguity, i.e. his alternating between well-founded inquietude concerning the fate of the Jews, and his catastrophic underestima…
The Jewish Works of Sayed Kashua Subversive or Subordinate
This article discusses the place of Hebrew and Jewish images and stereotypes in the works of the Israeli-Arab Hebrew writer Sayed Kashua. When describing his Arab protagonists, Kashua portrays both the stereotype of the oppressed Diaspora Jew, who is trying to blend in and hide his identity, and the stereotype of the Israeli Jew, the image that many of Kashua's protagonists aspire to imitate. The article argues that adopting those images and ster…
Holocaust Humor, Satire, and Parody on Israeli Television
The politicization of the Holocaust has been reflected in Israeli culture from the late 1940s in cinema, literature, theater, and poetry; in the last several decades, it has also been depicted on Israeli television. Most of the representations of the Holocaust in the first decades of Israel's existence were dramatic. But from the 1990s onward, Israelis also began to address the subject through satire. The case studies in this article focus on the…
Is it OK to laugh about it yet? Hitler Rants YouTube parodies in Hebrew
The Holocaust was and remains a central trauma in Israel’s collective memory. For many years, the perception was that a humorous approach to the Holocaust might threaten the sanctity of its memory. Official agents of the Holocaust memory continue to believe in this approach, but since the 1990s, a new unofficial path of memory began taking shape in tandem with it. It is an alternative and subversive path that seeks to remember – but differently. …
Remembrance in the Living Room [ Zikaron b’Salon ]: Grassroots gatherings as new forms of Holocaust commemoration in Israel
Remembrance in the Living Room is a Jewish-Israeli social initiative providing an intimate format for commemoration on the eve of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance day, in the privacy of people’s homes. This initiative, which was launched in 2011 soon overshadowed other alternative ceremonies. The article analyses the way these gatherings differ from the performative acts of canonical and alternative ceremonies and suggests new strategies …
Looking beyond the victims: Descendants of the perpetrators in Hitler ’ s Children
Hitler’s Children (Chanoch Ze’evi, 2011) is the first Israeli documentary dedicated to the topic of descendants of Nazis. This article analyzes cinematic and ethical choices in mediating a notably painful subject for Israeli audiences. It claims that the emphasis on reconciliation and the focus on descendants who acknowledge and express remorse for their parents’ roles in the Holocaust set a cinematic tenor of confession and guilt. The similar pe…
Eva.stories: Disrespect or a Successful Change in Holocaust Memory
eva.stories is an Israeli Instagram project. Entrepreneur Mati Kochavi and his daughter, Maya, adapted the diary of thirteen-year-old Eva Heyman, a Jewish Hungarian girl who was murdered in Auschwitz, into Instagram stories that were uploaded to Instagram on the Israeli Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in 2019. Combining the Holocaust with Instagram, a social network service that is highly popular among young people and is associate…
The Illegals: A unique but overlooked historical documentation of illegal immigration
The Illegals (Meir Levin, 1948), which was produced by Americans for the Haganah (AFH) is the only film to provide real-time documentation of these survivors’ attempts to immigrate illegally to Palestine. However, despite the film's significance as a unique visual document, it was not screened when it most mattered, before the founding of the State of Israel, and over the years has been marginalized in the Zionist collective memory and in Zionist…
One Trauma, Two Narratives: Adamah versus Tomorrow's a Wonderful Day
In the three years after World War II, prominent Jewish organizations in the United States and in the Land of Israel made films aimed at promoting Zionist goals. The film Adamah (Helmar Lerski, 1948) was produced in the Land of Israel with the support of the Jewish-American volunteer women's organization Hadassah. It tells the rehabilitation story of Benjamin, a Holocaust survivor in the Land of Israel. When the final version was sent to Hadassah…
Traumatic past in the present: Covid-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media
The COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, spread to the rest of the world in 2020 and still holds nations in its grip in 2021. There is scant research on the way it has affected Holocaust awareness. Based on scholarly work on Holocaust awareness in Israel, the top-down memory of the Holocaust in the media and the vernacular Holocaust memory on social media, this article analyzes the ways the Holocaust became a frame of reference in Israel for the inte…
Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration
Animated documentaries dealing with the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, and their descendants constitute a new phenomenon and inaugurate a new field of Holocaust commemoration. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries. It explores movies produced in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, and Israel. Based on theories developed in the fields of animated documentary, Holocaust studies, cinema studies, trauma st…
Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration
Examines representations of the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors and their descendants in animated documentaries The book is the first comprehensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries Analyses films that were not researched before Discusses case studies from the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, and Israel Interdisciplinary research that brings together Film studies, Animation Studies, Holocaust Studies, Trauma Studies, and Memory Studies A…
Ghettos and Camps
This chapter explores how the vast majority of directors refrain from representing horror even though they can capitalize on the ability of animation to represent the unfilmed past from the victims’ point of view, rather making sure nothing is presented as too alarming or shocking. Movies that depict ghettos, concentration camps, labor camps, and extermination camps do not necessarily show the atrocities at the dreadful sites where Jews were star…
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