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

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...

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Published in:Anthropology & education quarterly 2024-12, Vol.55 (4), p.400-418
Main Authors: Levenson, Lance, Lorenz‐Sinai, Friederike, Kessl, Fabian, Resnik, Julia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antisemitism
Discourses
Emotions
Ethnography
Guilt
Holocaust
Holocaust education
memorial sites
pilgrimage
Pilgrimages
Professional development
Schools
Teacher education
teacher professional development
Teachers
Traditions
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0161-7761
1548-1492
DOI:10.1111/aeq.12508