Nakba and Holocaust
Mechanisms of Comparison and Denial in the Israeli Literary Imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7304006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stav (corresponding author), Stav Stav (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 85-85 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jewish Social Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/jewisocistud.18.3.85 |
| OpenAlex | W2062743527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article considers analogies between the Holocaust and the Nakba in Israeli narratives, analogies that became increasingly dominant in political discourse in Israel through journalism, historiography, art, and literature. I focus on two recent works: the memoir My Holocaust Thief by Noam Chayut (2009) and the film Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman (2008). Both juxtapose Palestinian refugees and Holocaust victims (and less explicitly, Israeli soldiers and Nazi officers) as a way of rehabilitating a moral self. I ask what kind of political meaning is constructed by this mirroring, by placing the narrative of the other—the Palestinian catastrophe—within a Holocaust-based representation of the Nakba. In a certain sense, thinking through the conceptual framework of the Holocaust focuses attention on the catastrophe of the Jews and relegates the Palestinian catastrophe, once again, to secondary importance, driving it out first as a physical reality and then as a narrative
Art · Denial · Literature · Psychoanalysis · The Holocaust · Theology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2019 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |