Shared Heritage Revisited : National and Postnational Dimensions on the Example of Germans, Palestinians and Israelis.
Culture is constructed, negotiated, managed, and shared by various ideological, political, and moral reasonings which manifest themselves tangibly and intangibly in public monuments, architecture, memorial sites, theaters, museums, orchestras, and heritage associations. The contributions to this vol...
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Bielefeld :
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Cultural heritage definition from a Western European angle
- Cultural heritage definition from a non-European angle
- Cultural heritage definition as "shared cultural heritage"
- About the book
- Part I Theoretical approach
- Part II Nationality and the construction of cultural heritage
- Part III Multinational divisions and the construction of cultural heritage
- Part IV The postnational concept and the construction of shared heritage
- Bibliography
- I. Theoretical approach
- The concept of heritage
- A national perspective
- Introduction
- Cultural heritage and the concept of nation
- Jewish cultural heritage as nationalism
- Israeli Palestinians cultural heritage as nationalism
- Epilogue: Cultural heritage as an unstable category
- Bibliography
- Common, shared, contradictory heritage?
- Introduction
- Definitions and terms: Cultural heritage revisited
- Components of cultural heritage: (How) can cultural heritage be shared?
- Varieties of understanding: Common or shared heritage?
- Political framework: Postcolonial memory culture in Germany
- An example from Germany: The Humboldt Forum in Berlin
- Chances, limits, utopias? A brief outlook
- Bibliography
- Other Sources
- II. Nationality and the construction of cultural heritage
- The Dawn Multicultural Theater: Sharing heritage through documentary theater
- Introduction
- Theater and the construction of national heritage: A case study in Israel
- Documentary theater and the construction of heritage
- Methods
- Analysis
- Emotional resuscitation and revitalizing of personal memories
- Consciousness-raising: Repositioning memories of community heritage
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Other Sources
- From the Mellah in Marrakesh to Israel and back
- Introduction
- The Jews of Marrakesh and the immigration to Israel
- Dispersal of Moroccan and Marrakesh Jews in the periphery of Israel
- Moroccan Jewish associations and heritage centers in Israel
- Methods
- Analysis
- The Association's political initiatives
- Returning "home" to the Mellah
- Returning back to Israel
- Epilogue: from the Mellah to Israel and back
- Bibliography
- War memorials as a non-monologic heritage site
- Introduction
- Military memorial sites in Israel
- The Negev Brigade's involvement in the '48 war
- The Monument to the Negev Brigade
- Methods
- Analysis
- Monuments of war as a monologic shared heritage
- Monuments of war as a polysemic shared heritage
- Concluding remarks: Remembrance, monuments, and the idea of heritage
- Bibliography
- Arab-Hebrew bread: The story of the Hubeza and the split local heritage
- Introduction
- Food as cultural language and heritage
- Why not the hubeza?
- The authentic and the exotic: The contemporary foodie discourse
- Methods
- Three periods, three themes
- The fifties: The siege of Jerusalem narrative