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German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial: Emotions, encounters, and contested visions
Author(s): Levenson, Lance; Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike; Kessl, Fabian; Resnik, Julia
Date: 2024
Topics: Holocaust Education, Educational Tours, Anthropology, Israel Education, Israel-Diaspora Relations, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: 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.