| Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third-Generation Survivors in Israel Subjects: Documentary films -- Israel -- History and criticism; Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors -- Israel; Collective memory -- Israel; Memory in motion pictures -- History and criticism; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Influence; Motion picture -- Israel --; Since the late 1990s in Israel, third-generation Holocaust survivors have become the new custodians of cultural memory, and the documentary films they produce play a major role in shaping a societal consensus of commemoration. In Remaking Holocaust Memory , a pioneering analysis of third-generation Holocaust documentaries in Israel, Liat Steir-Livny, co-recipient of the 2019 Young Scholar Award given jointly by the Association of Israel Studies and the Israel Institute, investigates compelling films that have been screened in Israel, Europe, and the United States, appeared in numerous international film festivals, and won international awards, but have yet to receive significant academic attention. Liat Steir-Livny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culture at Sapir Academic College in Israel and a tutor and course coordinator at The Open University of Israel. She is a co-recipient of the 2019 Young Scholar Award given jointly by the Association of Israel Studies and the Israel Institute. |