Linguistic Conceptualization of the Holocaust in Palestine and Israel, 1942-53

Ofer, Dalia

doi:10.1177/002200949603100307

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“…This rhetoric was also in some ways congruent with the new emerging discourse in Israel, where the Holocaust was linked to the War of Independence (viewed from the Israeli perspective) in that it served as a source of inspiration and courage for the Jewish troops. 51 According to Ben-Zion Dinur, the War of Independence 'was "a direct continuation" of the war of the partisans and the underground fighters, as well as . .…”

Section: European Review Of History-revue Européenne D'histoire 187mentioning

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The Holocaust and the birth of Israel in British, Swedish and Finnish press discourse, 1947–1948

Holmila

2009

European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire

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This article examines the way in which the Holocaust was linked to the process of the birth of Israel between 1947 and 1948 in the mainstream British, Swedish and Finnish press. By utilising a framework of comparative cultural history, this essay seeks to understand why different countries responded to the suffering of the Jews during the Second World War in such diverse ways. This essay also seeks to question the popular belief that the two events were intimately linked, and that the link was recognised in a straightforward manner. Hence, the study argues that although the press coverage sometimes managed to establish the connection between the two events, more typically the news was domesticated. In other words, the news had a transcendental and metahistorical character, working as an extension to each country's own self-understanding of Jews, Zionism and the Holocaust.

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Section: European Review Of History-revue Européenne D'histoire 187mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Holocaust and the birth of Israel in British, Swedish and Finnish press discourse, 1947–1948

Holmila

2009

European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire

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“…Examples of such knowledge range from language itself (although Holocaust oral histories are often provided in English, most survivors did not learn English until after the experiences they recount) to information culled from membership in a community of practice, including the recounting of events that have little basis in reality (e.g., survivor myths; Wieviorka 1984) and renditions that are factually accurate but not actually experienced at first hand (Schiff et al 2000). Other factors that mediate between what is "said" and what "happened" include the organization of long-term memory (Laub 1992, but see Pillemer 1998, experiential and discursive changes during a lifespan (Coupland & Nussbaum 1993), social, cultural, and political changes (e.g., Baumel 1996, Ofer 1996, and perhaps the impact of continuing trauma (LaCapra 2001).…”

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Mother and friends in a Holocaust life story

Schiffrin¹

2002

Lang. Soc.

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Although oral histories about the Holocaust are increasingly important sources of public commemoration, as well as data for historians, they also provide opportunities for survivors to recount life stories that describe intensely personal and painful memories. One type of memory concerns relationships with significant and familiar “others.” By analyzing the linguistic construction (through variation in the use of referring terms and reported speech) of two relationships (with mother and friends) in one Holocaust survivor's life story, this article shows how survivors' life stories position “others” within both their own lives and more broadly construed matrices of cultural archetypes and historically contingent identities (victim, survivor, bystander).

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“…The ®rst Hebrew word proposed was shoah (Ofer 1996). Biblical uses of shoah denote an unforseen, often sudden disaster in¯icted upon an individual as punishment ± the scope of the disaster being a source of astonishment (Ofer 1996: 568).…”

Section: The Jewish Experience In Wwii: What Do We Call It?mentioning

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LANGUAGE, experience and history: ‘What happened’ in World War II

Schiffrin

2001

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Sociolinguistics can contribute to our understanding of history by showing how language helps to develop and maintain a sense of a communal past. This paper focuses on the referring terms for the World War II experiences of European Jews and of Japanese Americans, as evinced through various sources of public discourse (newspapers, library cataloguing systems, book titles). The analysis of linguistic form and function combines with discussion of the social and cultural history of Holocaust awareness in the U.S. to show how the word Holocaust (as a referring term for the experience of European Jews) became part of an American lexicon. A comparison of this stable term with the variety of nouns and verbal expressions used to index the Japanese American experience allows us to more fully consider how language helps to create and preserve collective memory.

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Linguistic Conceptualization of the Holocaust in Palestine and Israel, 1942-53

Cited by 14 publications

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The Holocaust and the birth of Israel in British, Swedish and Finnish press discourse, 1947–1948

The Holocaust and the birth of Israel in British, Swedish and Finnish press discourse, 1947–1948

Mother and friends in a Holocaust life story

LANGUAGE, experience and history: ‘What happened’ in World War II

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