Site of amnesia: the lost historical consciousness of Mizrahi Jewry : representation of the experience of the Jews of North Africa and the Middle East during World War II in Israeli, European and Middle Eastern film and t

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kozlovsky-Golan, Yvonne, author.

Series:

Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 64.

Brill's series in Jewish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mizrahim in motion pictures.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), on television.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

This study deepens our historical understanding of the North-African Jewish and Middle Eastern Jewish experience during WWII, which is often under- or mis-represented by the media in Israel, the Arab world, France, and Italy. Public, historical and sociocultural discourse is examined to clarify whether these communities are accepted by the world as \'Holocaust survivors\'. Further, it determines the extent to which their wartime history is revealed to Israeli society in its cultural performances. Importantly, this work addresses the reasons why the Holocaust of North African Jewry is absent from Israeli and world consciousness. Finally, the study contemplates the consequences of these phenomena for Israeli society as well as in the colonial countries of France and Italy.

Contents:

Front Matter

Frontispiece

Copyright page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Audio-Visual Footnotes to an Absent Historic Narrative: Symbiosis between the Holocaust and Audio-Visual Media

Historic Awareness, Media and Knowledge

A Missing Understanding, 1945 to the 1990s

Documentary, Feature Films and Fiction: Allied Filming during the North African Campaign: between Testimonies and Visual Documentation

Lost Stories

European Television and Cinema

Partial Collective Memory

A Tradition without a Past

Betrayal of the Intellectuals

Israeli Television and Cinema

Film and Television Representations of Other Countries in the Middle East

Present Absentees

Community and Individual Resistance

Approximate Israeli Creation

Within Us – an Additional Aspect of the Wartime Experience

Conclusion

Epilogue

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

90-04-39562-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004395626 DOI