ABSTRACT

In this research I examine how collective memory travels in political speech. I qualitatively analyze how the memory of the Holocaust is deployed in non-commemorative settings across three national contexts: Israel, Germany, and the US. Findings demonstrate how the memory of the Holocaust is selectively presented and rearranged to support a domestic agenda. Ever-expanding transnationalization has thus heightened interconnectivity, enabling the memory of the Holocaust to travel over and beyond traditional settings. It has also admitted memories from beyond the border into the national context of public sense-making through speech. Discussing implications for theory and scholarship, I argue that the social construction of memories as transnationalized entities, and their importation via political speech holds within it a socially-charged question, namely, to whom does this memory belong?

摘要

在这项研究中，我研究了集体记忆如何在政治演讲中传播。我定性地分析了大屠杀的记忆是如何在三个国家的非纪念性环境中部署的：以色列、德国和美国。调查结果表明，大屠杀的记忆是如何被选择性地呈现和重新安排以支持国内议程的。因此，不断扩大的跨国化加强了相互联系，使大屠杀的记忆能够超越传统环境。它还承认来自国界之外的记忆通过演讲进入公共意义建构的国家背景。讨论对理论和学术的影响，我认为记忆作为跨国实体的社会建构，以及它们通过政治言论的输入在其中包含一个社会问题，