Thesis
A battlefield of memory: the Nakba and the Holocaust as exclusive victimhood narratives
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Situated in the post-Oslo era, this work constitutes a parallel analysis of the collective transmission of the foundational pasts in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian society, respectively the Holocaust and the Nakba. Through the application of postmodern criticism to Maurice Halbwachs’ unitary understanding of group memory transmission, this thesis exposes the existence and perpetuation of exclusive and ethnocentric victimhood narratives that provide the theoretical foundations for an ensuin...
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Funding
The Anglo-Israeli Foundation
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Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
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The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust
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The Council for British Research in the Levant
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The University of Oxford
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-09-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Wermenbol, G
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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