‘Am Yisrael Chai! (The Nation of Israel Lives!)’: Stark Reminders of Home in the Reproduction of Ethno-Diasporic Identity
‘Am Yisrael Chai! (The Nation of Israel Lives!)’: Stark Reminders of Home in the Reproduction of Ethno-Diasporic Identity
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“Am Yisrael Chai！（以色列民族还活着！）”：民族离散身份再现中对家乡的鲜明提醒
DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.2011.623587
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Nadine Blumer
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作者：
Nadine Blumer
跨国主义文学重新定义了流散的概念，声称它是去根，去中心化和脱离民族国家的修辞“一个民族，一个土地”，原始归属和共同的起源。在这篇文章中，我重新审视了犹太人的流散，曾经的经典案例，因为它导航的现实和紧张局势，其自身的转变：从神话到现实的家园回归，虽然大多数没有返回。具体来说，我分析了三月的生活（MOL），大屠杀的国际犹太青年教育计划，旨在解决这种紧张局势，并通过战略性地在新旧身份，家园和侨民的理解之间移动来塑造下一代犹太侨民。在这篇文章中讨论的是各种方式，其中MOL强调其参与者的边界和中心（S）的犹太人散居身份。我的结论是，跨国重新定义散居未能充分捕捉所有散居过程的机制。犹太人的情况要求一种介于新旧散居之间的形式，这种形式挑战但也承认民族散居身份的持续主张是本质的，并最终植根于家园。
The transnationalism literature has redefined the concept of diaspora, claiming it to be de-rooted, de-centred and detached from the nation-state rhetoric of ‘one nation, one land’, primordial belonging and common origins. In this article I revisit the Jewish diaspora, once the classic case, as it navigates the reality—and tension—of its own transformation: from myth to reality of homeland return, although most have not returned. Specifically, I analyse March of the Living (MOL), a Holocaust education programme for international Jewish youth, that seeks to resolve this tension and shape the next generation of Jewish diasporans by strategically moving between old and new understandings of identity, homeland and diaspora. Discussed in this article are the various ways in which MOL emphasises to its participants the boundaries—and centre(s)—of Jewish diasporic identity. I conclude that transnational redefinitions of diaspora fail to adequately capture the mechanisms of all diasporic processes. The Jewish case calls for an in-between form of old and new diaspora that challenges but also recognises persistent claims of ethno-diasporic identity as essentialised and ultimately rooted in the homeland.