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 Television
Leiden: Brill, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 242pp. Index and 17 page bibliography. Decorative brown boards, lettered in white, with purple headband.
Illustrated with a color frontispiece and a color vignette on the front cover. A fine, as new copy.
"In addition to using academic resources, Golan captures this history from the margins by utilizing audio-visual and artistic media in addition to evidence recorded on community heritage websites, Facebook, and other online social networks. Golan’s book demonstrates that there is a moral imperative to preserve and transmit these memories of persecution and discrimination..." -David B Levy, Touro College, NYC, Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews 1.2 (2019)
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: Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Audio-Visual Footnotes to an Absent Historic Narrative: Symbiosis between the Holocaust and Audio-Visual Media; Chapter 2 Historic Awareness, Media and Knowledge; Chapter 3 A Missing Understanding, 1945 to the 1990s; Chapter 4 Documentary, Feature Films and Fiction: Allied Filming during the North African Campaign: between Testimonies and Visual Documentation; Chapter 5 Lost Stories; Chapter 6 European Television and Cinema; 6.1 Italian Cinema; 6.2 French Feature Films; 6.3 French Documentary Cinema; Chapter 7 Partial Collective Memory Chapter 8 Tradition without a Past; Chapter 9 Betrayal of the Intellectuals; Chapter 10 Israeli Television and Cinema; Chapter 11 Film and Television Representations of Other Countries in the Middle East; 11.1 Braids: an Iraqi Prisoner of Zion; 11.2 Michel Ezra Safra and Sons: the Jews of Syria; 11.3 Farewell Baghdad; 11.4 The Turkish Passport; Chapter 12 Present Absentees; 12.1 Lo Tafchidunu; 12.2 Refugees and Jewish Property; 12.3 Forgotten Refugees; Chapter 13 Community and Individual Resistance; 13.1 The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Algeria; 13.2 The Night of Fools: the Story of the Jewish Resistance in AlgeriaChapter 14 Approximate Israeli Creation; Chapter 15 Within Us -- an Additional Aspect of the Wartime Experience; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Volume 64 in the "Brill Series in Jewish Studies" Fine. Item #52015
ISBN: 9789004395619
Price: $125.00