Above the Death Pits, beneath the Flag: Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

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Notes

1. See David I. Kerzer, Ritual, Politics, and Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988); Bruce Kapferer, Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1988).

2. Neima Barzel, “Bein mered ha-geta'ot le-nitzahon ha-goral ha-yehudi” (Between the ghetto uprising and the victory of Jewish fate), Zmanim, no. 81 (2003): 76–86.

3. Adi Ophir, “Al kidush ha-shem: Shoah: Masekhet anti-te'ologit” (The sanctification of the Holocaust: An anti-theological treatise), Politikah 8 (1986): 2–5; Moshe Zuckermann, Sho'ah ba-heder ha-atum: Ha-sho'ah ba-itonot ha-yisre'elit be-mahalakh milhemet ha-mifratz (Holocaust in the sealed room: The Holocaust in the Israeli press during the Gulf War) (Tel Aviv: Self-publication, 1993); Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, trans. Haim Watzman (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993).

4. Avishai Margalit, “Avar mitmashekh” (Past continuous), Zmanim, no. 68–69 (2000): 76–78.

5. Neima Barzel, “Tfisat ha-gvurah bein zikaron kolektivi le-zikaron le'umi mufrat” (The concept of heroism between collective memory and privatized national memory), Dapim le-Heker ha-Sho'ah 16 (2000): 86–125.

6. See also ibid.

7. See Yair Auron, The Pain of Knowledge: Holocaust and Genocide Issues in Education, trans. Ruth Ruzga (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction, 2005).