Accented memory
Russian immigrants reimagine the Israeli past
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12534856 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olga Gershenson (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-36 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Israeli History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-1042 • E-ISSN: 1744-0548 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13531040902752507 |
| OpenAlex | W2010975906 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article seeks to understand the place of the Russian immigrant community in the larger Israeli culture and to explore how immigrants themselves negotiate their position. One site of such negotiation is the film Paper Snow (2003) created predominantly by Russian-Israeli filmmakers. Their distinct vantage point emerges through the film's casting, genre, style, and language. Paper Snow features such iconic figures of Israeli culture-in-the-making as actress Hanna Rovina and poets Alexander Penn and Avraham Shlonsky, but represents them as part of the Russian intelligentsia. In this way, the film adheres to the familiar story of nation building, but tells it with an accent: by emphasizing the Russianness of the Israeli national past, the film inscribes contemporary Russian immigrants onto the grand narrative of the nation. By revising the official collective memory, Paper Snow produces accented memory
Archaeology · Art · Collective memory · Eulogy · Immigration · Intelligentsia · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Stress (linguistics · Style (visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
Yearning for yesterday
The texture of memory
The Anti-aesthetic
Common Places
The Skin of the Film
An Accented Cinema
Recovered Roots
Postmodernism and Consumer Society
The SabraThe Creation of the New Jew
Hebrew and Zionism
The Jewish Search for a Usable Past
The Invention and Decline of Israeliness
Popular Music and National Culture in Israel
Challenging Ethnic Citizenship
Absorbed by Love
From Jew to Hebrew
Tolkovyi slovar' zhivogo velikorusskogo iazyka
The Jewish Search for a Usable Past
The Whore and the Other
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |