Moriya Rachmani
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moriya Rachmani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moriya |
| FAMILY NAME | Rachmani |
| SIGNATURE | RACHMANI M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reading Trauma
The Nazi concentration camps were a place of terror, violence, and murder, inmates being brutally stripped of their self-identity and humanity from the very moment of their arrival. This article examines the process and feeling of the "shattering of the self" prisoners experienced by analyzing three of the descriptions/images by which it is commonly depicted in the testimony literature: human objectification, "like dead," and infantile behavior. …
Ritual Existence and the Preservation of Self-Identity in the Concentration Camps
In the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust, some Jews in the concentration camps sought to perform various ritual acts. Examining the role ritual plays in preserving self-identity in extreme circumstances, this article investigates the way in which such acts created a symbolic space as an alternative existence to the regime of death. The essay analyzes attempts by concentration camp prisoners to find in ritual a sense of time and continuity, a …
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Ritual Existence and the Preservation of Self-Identity in the Concentration Camps
In the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust, some Jews in the concentration camps sought to perform various ritual acts. Examining the role ritual plays in preserving self-identity in extreme circumstances, this article investigates the way in which such acts created a symbolic space as an alternative existence to the regime of death. The essay analyzes attempts by concentration camp prisoners to find in ritual a sense of time and continuity, a …
Reading Trauma
The Nazi concentration camps were a place of terror, violence, and murder, inmates being brutally stripped of their self-identity and humanity from the very moment of their arrival. This article examines the process and feeling of the "shattering of the self" prisoners experienced by analyzing three of the descriptions/images by which it is commonly depicted in the testimony literature: human objectification, "like dead," and infantile behavior. …
Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Feeling (1 work) · History (1 work)