‘To Sell Holocaust Day to the Children’: Narrating Traumatic Memories as Media Work

Oren Meyers; Eyal Zandberg; Motti Neiger

doi:10.1057/9781137325242_5

‘To Sell Holocaust Day to the Children’: Narrating Traumatic Memories as Media Work

Oren Meyers, Eyal Zandberg, Motti Neiger

Department of Communication

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Abstract

The establishment of Holocaust Remembrance Day as a day of collective ritualistic mourning has created a unique situation in which the memory of the Holocaust is addressed by the vast majority of the Israeli media, on the same day every year (Zandberg, 2010).¹ In turn, this assists the tracking of the diachronic development of Israeli Holocaust media memory across time. Thus, the exceptional circumstances that shape the operation of Israeli media on Holocaust Remembrance Day — especially the ways in which they stress the tension between the conventions of Holocaust representation and the routines of media work — help elucidate the constructed and negotiated nature of ‘media professionalism’.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	123-152
Number of pages	30
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325242_5
State	Published - 2014

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
ISSN (Print)	2634-6257
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-6265

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Oren Meyers, Eyal Zandberg and Motti Neiger.

Keywords

Broadcast Channel
Collective Memory
Media Professional
News Item
Symbolic Capital

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Linguistics and Language

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