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Remembering and Forgetting: The Holocaust in 21st Century Britain
Critchell, Kara
Critchell, Kara
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2016-12-06
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This article explores the politics of Holocaust memorialization by examining the
intersection of education, commemoration and national identity in 21st -century Britain
since the inaugural Holocaust Memorial Day in 2001. The article shows how
institutionalized spheres have intersected with contemporary cultural discourse
surrounding questions of civic morality, immigration and the memory of other
genocides. The main argument put forward is that the way in which the Holocaust has
been indelibly associated with these issues has both implicitly and explicitly connected
Holocaust discourse to contemporary debates on what constitutes British identity in the
21st century. The article also suggests that highly domesticated narratives of the period
are often used to promote a self-congratulatory notion of British identity and supposed
British exceptionalism.
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Critchell, K. (2016). Remembering and forgetting: the Holocaust in 21st century Britain. Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, (10), 23-59.
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Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea
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Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History
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10.48248/issn.2037-741X/813
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