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e-mail: leag13@gmail.com

2013 –present:             Post-doctoral work at The Herzl Institute, Haifa University, on the subject of: "From Rebirth to the Skies" – Documentation of the Lives of Israeli Air Force Personnel who are Holocaust Survivors.

2006 – 2012:               Ph.D. studies, BarIlanUniversity, The Program in Contemporary Jewry

Doctoral Thesis: Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Holocaust: The Approaches of the IDF Education Corps Toward Shaping the Memory of Holocaust Amongst Soldiers (1987-2004)

Supervisors: Prof. Dalia Ofer, Hebrew University; Prof. Judy Baumel-Schwartz, BarIlan University.

2003 – 2005:               Wrote thesis equivalent, Hebrew University, The Institute for Contemporary Jewry.

Subject: Representation of "Holocaust and Heroism" in the [weekly] newspaper, Bamahane [published by the IDF], 1948-1973.

                                    Supervisor: Prof. Dalia Ofer.

1994 – 1998:               MA in Educational Administration, Department of Learning, Teaching and Training, Haifa University.

1981 – 1985:               BA in History and the Bible, and Teaching Certificate for Secondary Schoolsin History and the Bible, Oranim College of Haifa University.

Academic Appointments

Jan. 2014 – Present:    Post Doctorate, Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism and History, Haifa University.

Feb. 2014 – Present:   Guest Lecturer, Seminar on Holocaust and Heroism in Israeli Society, The Eshkol Studies Department, Department of Multi-Disciplinary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Haifa University.

Academic Activities

Member of the Israeli Association of Military and Social Researchers, Chair of Research Team on: The IDF and the Holocaust.

Employment

1994 – present: Director, the MashmautCenter (an acronym in Hebrew for: Heritage, Holocaust, Tradition, Values and Rebirth, the word means Significance), KiryatMotzkin.

                           The Mashmaut Center is a unique regional center, established at Lea Ganor's initiative in 1994 by the Municipality of Kiryat Motzkin and  the Haifa District of the Ministry of Education.

Publications

• ØRepresentation of "Holocaust and Heroism" in theIDF: BamahaneArmy Newspaper and IDF Archival Documents, 1948-1973 in: Remembrance and the Holocaust – Dilemmas and Challenges, Nitza Davidowitzand Dan Soen, editors, The Ariel University Center of Samaria,Ariel Publications, Jerusalem, 2011, pp. 138-154. [in Hebrew]

• ØRepresentation of "Holocaust and Heroism" in theIDF: Bamahane Army Newspaper and IDF Archival Documents, 1948-1973 in: Remembrance and the Holocaust – Dilemmas and Challenges, Nitza Davidowitz and Dan Soen, editors, The Ariel University Center of Samaria, Austeria Publishing House, Krakow and Budapest, 2012.

• Ø"The Perception of Jewish Behavior and its Place in the Holocaust, in the Education Corps of the IDF: Changes and Trends, 1987-2004", in: Heritage Anthology for the Study of the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism, 70 Years[After] the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Givat Haviva, Tel Aviv University, 92/93, April, 2013, pp. 256-284.

• Ø"Instilling Memory of the Holocaust in the IDF: Trends and Changes, 1987-2004, in: On the Agenda –a Collection of Articles and Thinking Points for the 2013 Work Year, Education and Youth Corps, Research and Development Division, December 2012, Tevet 5773.

Areas of Expertise

• ØThe Holocaust – Between History and Remembrance

• Ø Israeli Society and the Holocaust

• Ø The IDF and the Holocaust

• ØThe Holocaust in the Relationship Between the Army and Society

• ØFrom Rebirth to the Skies – the Contribution to the Air Force and to the IDF by Air Force Personnel who are Holocaust Survivors

• ØThe Didactics of Teaching the Holocaust

• ØWriting Research Papers

• ØThe Education System and the Holocaust.

• ØThe History and the Rebirth of the State of Israel.

 Email: lead@post.bgu.ac.il

Affiliation:

Lecturer at the Sociology and Anthropology Department;

Ben Gurion University in the Negev

Postdoctoral Fellow, the Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research

Biography: Lea David finished her PhD at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University, Israel. Her work examines how a transition to democracy is changing a content of a collective memory in Serbia and is producing new social categories. She explores how a contested past is managed through the clashes of the local and the global memory cultures. She has also been lecturing on the memory studies, conflict in the Former Yugoslav countries and transitional justice at various Israeli Universities and Colleges. Her postdoctoral research under Dr Carol Kidron supervision (Anthropology Department, Haifa University) at the Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research, Haifa University deals with Memory Politics and Human Rights regime in International Relations.

Last publications:

David L. (2015) “Dealing with the Contested Past in Serbia: De-contextualization of the War Veterans Memories”, Nation and Nationalism 21(1). In press

David L. (2014) “Fragmentation as a strategy of silencing: Serbian war veterans against the State of Serbia”, Contemporary Southeastern Europe 1(2). In press

David L. (2014) “Impression Management of a Contested Past: Serbia's Newly Designed National Calendar”, Memory Studies 7(4): 472- 483.

David L. (2014) “Mediating international and domestic demands: Mnemonic battles surrounding the monument to the fallen of the wars of the 1990s in Belgrade”, Nationalities Papers 42(4): 655-673.

David L. (2013) “The Holocaust Discourse as a Screen Memory: the Serbian Case” in (Mis)Uses of History: History as a Political Tool in the Western, Srdjan Jankovic and Veran Stancetic (eds.) CSDU: Belgrade. Vol.1: 63-87.

srotem@netvision.net.il

Stephanie Shosh Rotem is a graduate of the Architecture department at the Technion in Haifa. She worked as an architect, specializing in public institutions. In 2004, she completed her MA, and in 2010 received her PhD for her thesis “Museums of Holocaust Commemoration, The Role of Architecture in Constructing a Collective Memory of the Holocaust”, in the Faculty of the Arts at Tel Aviv University. Currently, she is Head of the Diploma Program of Curatorial and Museum Studies at Tel Aviv University, lectures on architectural history, museum history and museum architecture in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Arts, also at Tel Aviv University, and teaches a seminar about Holocaust museums in the International Master's Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa. She has published on these subjects in major academic journals, most recently “A Sense of Jewish Empowerment or a Lesson in Universal Values? New Directions in the Design of Holocaust Museums in the USA” (Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust 27 (2), 2013). Hher book: Constructing Memory. Architectural Narratives of Holocaust Musems was published in 2013 (Bern: Peter Lang).

Dr. Laura Jockusch

Dr. Kobi Kabalek

Dr. Eila Perkis

ckidron@soc.haifa.ac.il

Carol A. Kidron is senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel. Kidron has undertaken ethnographic work with Holocaust descendants in Israel and children of Cambodian genocide survivors in Cambodia and in Canada. Her research interests include personal, communal and collective Holocaust and Genocide commemoration, and the way in which therapeutic discourse and particularly trauma constructs have informed contemporary subjectivities. Kidron’s publications include: “Toward an Ethnography of Silence: The Lived Presence of the Past in the Everyday Life of Holocaust Trauma Survivors and Their Descendants in Israel” (Current Anthropology 2009), “Embracing the Lived Memory of Genocide: Holocaust Survivor and Descendant Renegade Memory-Work at the ‘House of Being’” (American Ethnologist 2010) and “Alterity and the Particular Limits of Universalism: Comparing Jewish-Israeli Holocaust and Canadian-Cambodian Genocide Legacies” (Current Anthropology, 2012). 

 List of Publications 2014

1. A.Articles in Refereed Journals

Published

1. 1.Kidron, Carol A. (2003) “Surviving a Distant Past: A Case Study of the Cultural Construction of Trauma Descendant Identity.” Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 31:4, 513-544. IF-.(31/81 Anthropology), Citations -29

1. 2.Kidron, Carol A. (2006) “The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: A Journey across the Continuum of Paradox.” Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic  Studies 158: 35-70.

1. 3.Kidron, Carol A. (2009) "Toward an Ethnography of Silence: The Lived Presence of the Past among Holocaust Trauma Descendants in Israel." Current Anthropology 50:1, 5-27. IF –  2.934 (4/81 Anthropology) Citations - 9

1. 4.Kidron Carol A. (2009) "In Pursuit of Jewish Paradigms of Memory: Constituting Carriers of Jewish Memory in a Support Group for Children of Holocaust Survivors." Dapim: Studies on the Shoah. 23:4-35 (Bilingual Journal).

1. 5.Kidron Carol A. (2010) "Response to - Research Forum: The Politics of Memory and the Pursuit of Jewish Paradigms of Memory – discussion and responses to an article by Carol Kidron" Dapim: Studies on the Shoah.. 24: 324-400. (Bilingual Journal).

1. 6.Kidron, Carol A. (2010) "Embracing the Lived Memory of Genocide: Holocaust Survivor and Descendant Renegade Memory-Work at the House of Being." American Ethnologist 37:(3): 429-451,. IF – 1.41 (19/81 Anthropology)

1. 7.Kidron, Carol A. (2012) "Breaching the Wall of Traumatic Silence: Holocaust Survivor and Descendant Person-Object Relations and the Material Transmission of the Genocidal Past. Journal of Material Culture 17 (1): 3-21. IF – .68 (36/81 Anthropology).

1. 8.Kidron, Carol A. (2012) "Alterity and the Particular Limits of Universalism: Comparing Jewish-Israeli Holocaust and Canadian-Cambodian Genocide Legacies." Current Anthropology 53 (6): 723-753 IF – 2.934 (4/81 Anthropology).

9. Kidron, Carol A. (2013) “Being there Together: Dark Family Tourism and the Emotive Experience of Co-presence in the Holocaust Past. Annals of Tourism Research 41:175-194. IF – 3.25 (3/138 Sociology, 1/38 Tourism and Leisure).

1. 10.Kidron, Carol A. (2014) "Inheriting Discontinued Bonds: Trauma-Descendant Relations with the Genocide Dead" Death Studies IF- .915 (64/125 Psychology -multidisciplinary). 38: 322-334.

11. Nachtigal, Anat and Carol A. Kidron (in press) “Existential Mulitiplicty and the Late Modern Smoker: Negotiating Multiple Identities in a Support Group for Smoking Cessation” Sociology of Health and Illness. 39 pp.

12. Kidron, Carol A. (in press) “Orchestrating survivor-family memory-work: Institutional enlistment, familial agency and the co-constitution of the Holocaust Past” History & Memory.

Chapters in Scientific Books

Published

1. Kidron, Carol A. (2007) “The Social Construction of Second Generation Survivors: Support Group Narratives of Wounded Carriers of Memory.”  In: Children in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Child Survivors and Second Generation. Z. Solomon and J. Chaitin (eds.) Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 261-285. (Hebrew).

2. Kidron, Carol A. (2009) "Silent Legacies of Trauma: A Comparative Study of Cambodian Canadian and Israeli Holocaust Trauma descendant Memory Work." In Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission. Argenti N. Schramm, C. eds. New York: Berghahn Press. 185-220.

3. Kidron, Carol A. (2011) " Deconstructing the Second Generation Survivor Syndrome: Paradigm Shifts from Psychopathology to Embodied Presence." In Holocaust as Paradigm of Trauma in the 20^th Century. J. Brunner and N. Zajde eds. Wallstein Verlag Press. (German) 30pp.

4. Kidron, Carol A. (2011) Embodied Legacies of Genocide: Holocaust Descendant Sensual Memories of Inter-subjectivity and Inter-corporeality. In Fran Mascia Lees (ed.) Companion to Anthropology of Bodies/Embodiment. Wiley Blackwell. 451-466.

1. 5.Kidron, Carol A. (2012) “Collective Memory, Traumatic Memory and Genocide: A Sociological and Anthropological Perspective. In Miriam Rieck (Ed.) The Holocaust: Its traumatic and intergenerational effects in comparison to other persecutions, its interpretations in different theories and its reflections in the arts.  Berlin: Verlag Irena Regener. 37-62.

1. 6. “Embodying the Distant Past: Holocaust Descendant Narratives of the Lived Presence of the Genocidal Past” in Alex Hinton and Devon Hinton (eds.) “Rethinking Trauma: Memory, Symptom, and Recovery after Genocide and Mass Violence.” Duke University Press. 29 pp.

1. 7.Kidron, Carol A. (2014) “The Global Semiotics of Trauma and Testimony: A Comparative Study of Jewish-Israeli, Canadian-Cambodian and Cambodian Genocidal Descendant Legacies.” In Haim Hazan and Amos Goldberg (Eds.) Disciplining Evil: The Dialectic of Globalizing the Holocaust New York: Berghahn Press. 39 pp.

1. 8.Kidron, Carol A. (in press) “Global Humanitarian Interventions: Managing Uncertain Trajectories of Cambodian Mental Health”P. Rabinow and L. Darash (Eds.) Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Analysis. Chicago University Press.

Pending Acceptance in the coming weeks by press

9. Kidron, Carol A.  “Breathing Life into Iconic Numbers: Yad Vashem’s “Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project” and the Constitution of a Posthumous Census of Six Million Holocaust Dead. In Michal Kravel El Tovi (Ed.) Taking Stock: Cultures of Enumeration.