No. 4 (2018): Narrations of the Shoah 2018, no. 4: Israeli narrations of the Shoah
The fourth issue of Narrations of the Shoah is an attempt to grasp the way the memory of the Shoah functions in the Israeli narrations, even if in the fragmentary and by no means exhaustive form, and an endeavour to confront its complex network of contexts. This unique situation makes the stories written or encoded in this milieu an essential and fascinating reservoir of topics, plots, and tropes: fascinating also because of its inherent idiosyncrasy. In order to make them justice, we resigned from the chronological order of the text in favour of the one that organises them with regard to their topics; after all, memory flows in a nonlinear way, whereas the emergence of new tendencies does not necessary wipe out the older trends. Hence, we do suggest to read the texts we proudly present as an attempt of a fragmentary diagnosis of a status quo. Polish and Israeli insight into the archive of collective memory is confronted with the recent events that shape the contemporary Israel, including the social unrest and military conflict facilitated by the activity of the occupational army. All of these facts lead us to pose the following question: what has been told by the Israeli narration of the Shoah except for the Shoah? This is precisely the question the contributors to this issue endeavour to respond to. We wish you an inspirational reading! [from the introduction by Jagoda Budzik and Bartłomiej Krupa]
