German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial: Emotions, encounters, and contested visions
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Drawing on anthropological conceptions of pilgrimage, our ethnography of professional development at an Israeli Holocaust Memorial follows German teachers on journeys to Israel. Seeking transformative and transferable experiences to combat anti-Semitism in schools, teachers experienced the voyage as a secular pilgrimage rooted in Christian traditions of guilt, confession, and absolution. As teachers' emotional encounters in Israel simultaneously forged communitas and challenged official historical–pedagogical visions, their practices abroad elucidate prevalent Holocaust education discourses in contemporary Germany.
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Holocaust Education Educational Tours Anthropology Israel Education Israel-Diaspora Relations Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, whichpermits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and nomodifications or adaptations are made
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German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial: Emotions, encounters, and contested visions. 2024: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1111/aeq.12508
