id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_girc3zywojdw5pg5pekqstfdwe Caroline Light Precarious Pasts and Jewish Collective Memory: "Trapped in History" in 2017 America 2018 15 .pdf application/pdf 7359 379 52 Precarious Pasts and Jewish Collective Memory: "Trapped in History" in 2017 America histories of Jewish coherence often depend upon silences in the process of history itself, masking the power structures that make such claims resonate with "white" is to negate that shared history, to place Jewish people alongside other light-skinned people who have—to varying degrees—benefitted historically from and participated in white supremacist power structures.11 Especially as contemporary Jewishness stubbornly resists (ethnic, religious, political, etc.) coherence, our collective belonging as Jewish people requires historical common ground. How do archives from the deep past, as well as from our contemporary moment, reflect the creation of collective historical memory in the name of Jewish The silences around certain power-infused sources of historical testimony, and the resulting archival absences, must be at the center of critical in historical evidence while concretizing the coherence of "Jewish American." ./cache/work_girc3zywojdw5pg5pekqstfdwe.pdf ./txt/work_girc3zywojdw5pg5pekqstfdwe.txt