Braided Words
Re-storying Holocaust Testimony through Indigenous-Jewish Dialogue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21665333 |
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| Authors | Krista Collier-Jarvis, Jason Chalmers (0000-0002-3233-6129) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Pages | 14-33 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1198-3493 • E-ISSN: 1916-0925 |
| Publisher | York University Libraries (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.25071/1916-0925.40415 |
| OpenAlex | W4410837160 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article explores how material culture and shared testimony can be the basis for relationship-building between Indigenous peoples and Jews in Canada. It relies on Indigenous Métissage, a decolonizing methodology that uses artefacts to re-story Indigenous-settler relations. Drawing on their experiences as intergenerational survivors of the Holocaust and of Residential Schools, the authors apply this practice to the wartime diary of Melania Weissenberg, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Canada as a war orphan in 1948. By exploring key points of entanglement, the authors create a braid wherein Mi’kmaw and Jewish narratives overlap, intersect, and knot together. This sort of dialogue can illuminate the structures and processes of settler colonialism while beginning to transform Indigenous-settler relations. Although the analysis addresses histories and legacies of genocide, it also shows how Indigenous and settler experiences are related through tradition, place, and memory
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Indigenous · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · The Holocaust · Theology · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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