Class 19. 10/29 Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day
Young, The Texture of Memory, ch. 10, “When a Day Remembers: A Performative History of Yom Hashoah Download When a Day Remembers: A Performative History of Yom Hashoah,” 263–283.
Ruth Ebenstein, “Remembered Through Rejection: Yom Hashoah in the Ashkenazi Haredi Daily Press 1950–2000 Download Remembered Through Rejection: Yom Hashoah in the Ashkenazi Haredi Daily Press 1950–2000,” Israel Studies 8, no. 3 (fall 2003) 141–167.
What purpose do memorial days serve? How do Yom Hashoah activities in Israel convey a Zionist message? How do ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews “remember through rejection”?