Papers by TOMASZ CEBULSKI
Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, 2021
Tomasz Cebulski holds an MA in international relations, an MA in Middle and Far East studies, and... more Tomasz Cebulski holds an MA in international relations, an MA in Middle and Far East studies, and a PhD in political science from Jagiellonian University, where he wrote his dissertation on “Political and International Aspects of the Functioning of the AuschwitzBirkenau State Museum in the years 1980–2010.” Dr. Cebulski is the author of Auschwitz after Auschwitz: History, Memory, Politics and has written widely on the history of Polish Jews, genealogy, and the politics of memory.
This paper examines the general trends and turning points in the construction of Jewish memory an... more This paper examines the general trends and turning points in the construction of Jewish memory and identity in Israel as influenced by and based on the events of the Holocaust. The chapter will show the importance, as a factor in identity formation, of the slow and gradual evolution from the often rejected traumatic post-Holocaust memory, through the process of the social internalization and integration of this memory, to the current institutionalized memory. This process in Israel is connected with generation change from the first generation of eyewitnesses of the Holocaust, through the second generation of new Zionist citizens, to the third and fourth generations looking for its identity in the globalized world.
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Papers by TOMASZ CEBULSKI