German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial: Emotions, encounters, and contested visions

Lance Levenson; Friederike Lorenz-Sinai; Fabian Kessl; Julia Resnik

doi:10.1111/aeq.12508

German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial: Emotions, encounters, and contested visions

Lance Levenson^*, Friederike Lorenz-Sinai, Fabian Kessl, Julia Resnik

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	400-418
Number of pages	19
Journal	Anthropology and Education Quarterly
Volume	55
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12508
State	Published - Dec 2024

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Holocaust education
emotions
memorial sites
pilgrimage
teacher professional development

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