Holocaust Day and Memorial Day in Israeli Schools: Ceremonies, Education and History

Autor: Ilana Bet-el, Avner Ben-Amos
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Israel Studies. 4:258-284
ISSN: 1527-201X
1084-9513
DOI: 10.2979/isr.1999.4.1.258
Popis: THE USE OF CEREMONIES FOR educational purposes is a well-known phenomenon in the history of religions. Ceremonies such as the Passover Seder or Christian Mass were originally designed not only to unite the community of believers, but also to impart axioms of the faith to the congregation during their participation in the sacred event.' The modern nation-state also learned to convert new ceremonies celebrating its victories into educational tools, imbuing the masses with basic principles of the state's doctrine." However, both religious establishments and the nationstates have preferred, generally, to keep such ceremonies distinctly separate from government-sponsored educational institutions. The uniqueness of the education system that was founded by the Yishuv [the pre-state Jewish community in Eretz Israel], and which continued to develop in the State of Israel, was its attempts to integrate secular ceremonies into the official teaching program, thereby enhancing their pedagogical effectiveness. Of all the ceremonies celebrated in Israeli schools after statehood, the Holocaust Remembrance Day and Memorial Day for Fallen IDF (Israel Defense Forces) Soldiers were assigned, and still share, the uncontested foremost position.3 Other ceremonies, such as the commemoration of the death of Chaim Nachman Bialik, (1873-1934, regarded as Zionism's "national poet"), were one-time affairs, whereas annual ceremonies such as the IIh of Adar on the Jewish lunar calendar (Tel-Hai Day, commemorating the heroic stand made by a band of pioneers in the Upper Galilee in I920) or Jerusalem Day (commemorating the unification of Jerusalem following the capture of the Old City in the Six-Day War) were observed for only a few years, having
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