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O etnicitě a konstrukci židovských identit v životních příbězích (On Ethnicity and Jewish Identity Construction in Narratives)
| Title in English | On Ethnicity and Jewish Identity Construction in Narratives |
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| Year of publication | 2002 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This essay, based on the analysis of autobiographical interviews with second generation Jews who currently live in the Czech Republic and Hungary, deals with the ethnic dimension of Jewish identities as it is constructed in narratives. Two aspects of the construction of ethnicity are discussed: the role of the collective memory of Holocaust and the symbolic meaning of certain bodily signs. It is argued that ethnic identity is articulated in the analysed biographies through the narrative structures which give meaning to particular experiences and events. This attribute of narrative construction is illustrated by two specific forms of emplotment: the story of refusal and reconciliation, and the story of searching and findig. |
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