Overview

Over the last seventy years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. The author explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Bringing together a diverse range of critical approaches, including memory studies, gender studies, diaspora theory, and settler colonial studies, Anxious Histories complicates the stories being told about the Holocaust in these Jewish schools and their broader communities. It demonstrates that an anxious thread runs throughout these historical narratives, as the pedagogy negotiates feelings of simultaneous belonging and not-belonging in the West and in Zionism. In locating that anxiety, the possibilities and the limitations of narrating histories of the Holocaust are opened up once again for analysis, critique, discussion, and development.

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Author:   Jordana Silverstein
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9781782386520

ISBN 10:   1782386521
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   01 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Holocaust Historiography, Anxiety and the Formulations of a Diasporic Jewishness Chapter 1. ‘Don’t ever think that it can’t happen again’: Memories of the Holocaust, Anxieties of Difference Chapter 2. ‘I think it makes it more real that way’:  Chronology, Survivor Testimony and the Holocaust Chapter 3. ‘From the utter depth of degradation to the apogee of bliss’: Uncanny and Mimicking Diasporic Zionism Chapter 4. ‘There is no doubt that it was a Jewish experience’: The Forgetfulness of a Haunting Settler-Colonialism Chapter 5. ‘Why the role of women was any more special than the role of the rest of them’: Circumscribing Jewish Femininity in Holocaust Pedagogies Conclusion: ‘It’s an unusual topic you’ve chosen’: Negotiating Emplacement Through History-Making Bibliography

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[This book] addresses an extremely difficult and complex theme, one which (to my knowledge) has not been focused on in a sustained way before: the pedagogy of the Holocaust in Diaspora Jewish secondary schools, especially vis-a-vis Zionism. It contains fascinating material and much of the analysis is provocative and worthwhile. * Jonathan Boyarin, Cornell University What is so interesting and admirable is the way the author probes and explores various conceptual and methodological questions, problematizing rather than imposing absolute judgements, and always writing with sympathy and empathy and a subtle awareness of possible contradictions - from the first sentence of the Introduction the reader realizes that the book is beautifully written, often idiomatic and conversational and engagingly personal. * John Docker, The University of Sydney

Author Information

Jordana Silverstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, with the ARC Laureate Fellowship Project ‘Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism: 1920 to the Present’. She is co-editor of In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation (Vallentine Mitchell, 2016) and has published widely on Holocaust memory and histories of Jewish identity.

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