עיצוב זיכרונות השואה של הניצולים בהשפעת מפגשם עם הארץ

Discusses how responses in Israel to the Holocaust affected writers of Holocaust memoirs, based on a study of 74 memoirs written by survivors living in Israel (including 25 that were never published), as well as of 40 memoirs published in the U.S. and Argentina. Through their memoirs, many of the Israeli writers attempted to influence attitudes toward survivors who had not been members of underground resistance groups. They emphasized the value of spiritual resistance, and hoped that readers would become more sympathetic and less judgmental. Notes that Israeli writers tended to focus on their role as "moral heroes". This was also the case concerning Argentinian writers, but American writers focused on their weaknesses rather than their strengths. -- From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.