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The Holocaust is inseparable from the Israeli identities even seven
decades following the atrocities during World War II, Israeli daily
life is shaped by the horrible crimes committed by the Nazis. This
book conceptualizes the intricacies of the Israeli identity in
relation to learning German as a foreign language (GFL) in Israel
throughout the course of history and the changing conception of
Germany. This book includes an analysis of a selection of
twenty-five GFL language books which reflect the stigmatization and
tabooization of the Holocaust and also the qualitative analysis of
a subject pool of 105 learners of GFL. The author finds that
identities are co-constituted by four individualized Thought
Styles, a concept borrowed from Ludwik Fleck. Thought Styles
capture the individual perspective of the language learner's view
of Germany and are categorized in this thesis as German
Engineering, Cold Germany, Neo-Nazi Germany, and The Other Germany.
The research draws from discourse theory, critical psychology, and
the oft-overlooked classical theory of Ludwik Fleck. Although the
relationship between Germany and Israel has been amicable for the
last six decades, the choice for Israelis to learn the language
that was used by a nation that once attempted to eradicate the
Jewish people is emotive and infinitely complex.
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