‘Proud to be British; and proud to be Jewish’: The Holocaust and British values in the twenty-first century
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Critchell, KaraAffiliation
University of ChesterPublication Date
2018-10-05
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As we approach the post-witness era this paper investigates the changing role of the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors in twenty-first century British politics and culture. In the first part, the article discusses the ways in which, through their role in educational initiatives and commemorative culture, survivors have acquired an increased visibility in British understandings of the Holocaust. For a significant period of time, this process was characterized by a tendency to abstract survivors from their Jewish identities to ensure that they could more easily act as mediators of a universalized, yet highly domesticated, Holocaust narrative with meanings for contemporary British society. However, in the second part the article will argue that, starting from the second decade of the twenty-first century, it is also possible to discern an increasing acknowledgement of British Holocaust survivors’ ‘difference.’ It will be suggested that British politicians have attempted to mobilize survivors, the Anglo-Jewish community they are seen to represent, and the Holocaust more in general, in Britain’s domestic battle against Islamic extremism and in the pursuit of the rather elusive concept of ‘British values.’Citation
Critchell, K. (2018). ‘Proud to be British; and proud to be Jewish’: The Holocaust and British values in the twenty-first century, Holocaust Studies, 26, 85-107.Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Holocaust StudiesAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17504902.2018.1528414Type
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Holocaust Studies on 5th October 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2018.1528414ISSN
2048-4887EISSN
2048-4887ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/17504902.2018.1528414
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