Stepping Out of Memory: An Evaluation on the Ideologization and Instrumentalization of the Holocaust

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 39 Sayı: 2, 615 - 637, 30.06.2025

İsa Abidoğlu

https://doi.org/10.48070/erciyesakademi.1613352

Öz

The Holocaust is an extremely important trauma that has had profound and lasting effects on the Jewish community, and research on this topic is of great importance. This study examines how the Holocaust has been ideologized by the Jewish community and how this trauma has been instrumentalized. A rigorous examination of this issue will help to reveal whether the Jewish community has been able to instrumentalize the painful event of the past in order to legitimize the state they have established, and whether they have been able to develop the empathy with the Palestinian community that was expected. Moreover, such a study reveals how events from the dark pages of human history find a place in the collective memory of societies. The aim of this research is to examine in detail and in depth how the holocaust has been ideologized and instrumentalized by the Jewish community. The importance of this topic is that it provides a basis for a better understanding of the effects and traumatic consequences of the holocaust, which can help to prevent the recurrence of similar events. Furthermore, this study aims to make clear that the holocaust is not only a historical event, but also a process of ideology and instrumentalization that profoundly affects the social and political structure of today. In this context, it is also necessary to reflect on the possible effects of the holocaust on future social treatment.

Anahtar Kelimeler

International Relations , Sociology of Religion , Holocaust , Collective Memory , Zionism.

HAFIZANIN DIŞINA ÇIKMAK: HOLOKOSTUN İDEOLOJİKLEŞMESİ VE ARAÇSALLAŞTIRILMASI ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Öz

Holokost, Yahudi toplumu üzerinde derin ve kalıcı etkileri olan son derece önemli bir travmadır ve bu konu üzerindeki araştırmaların önemi oldukça büyüktür. Bu çalışma, Holokost'un Yahudi toplumu tarafından nasıl ideolojikleştirildiği ve bu travmanın nelerle araçsallaştırıldığı konusunu ele almaktadır. Bu konunun titizlikle incelenmesi, Yahudi toplumunun geçmişte yaşadıkları acı olayı kurdukları devletin meşruiyetini sağlama adına yeri geldiğinde araçsallaştırabildikleri ve Filistin toplumu ile kurulması beklenen empatinin geliştirip geliştiremediklerini ortaya koymaya yardımcı olacaktır. Ayrıca, bu tür bir araştırma, insanlık tarihinin karanlık sayfalarında yer alan olayların toplumların kolektif hafızasında nasıl yer bulduğunu gözler önüne serer. Bu araştırmanın amacı, Holokostun Yahudi toplumu tarafından nasıl ideolojikleştirildiğini ve araçsallaştırıldığını doküman analizi, söylem analizi ve kolektif hafıza ile ilgili teorilere başvurularak detaylı bir şekilde ve derinlemesine incelemektir. Bu konunun önemi, Holokostun etkilerinin ve travmatik sonuçlarının daha iyi anlaşılmasını sağlayarak, benzer olayların tekrarlanmasının önüne geçmeye yardımcı olabilecek bir temel oluşturmasıdır. Ayrıca, bu çalışma, Holokostun yalnızca tarihi bir olay olmakla kalmayıp, aynı zamanda bugünün toplumsal ve siyasi yapısını derinden etkileyen bir ideoloji ve araçsallaştırma süreci olduğunu açıkça ortaya koymayı hedeflemektedir. Bu bağlamda, Holokostun gelecekteki toplumsal muameleler üzerindeki olası etkileri üzerine de düşünceler geliştirilmesi gereklidir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Uluslararası İlişkiler , Din Sosyolojisi , Holokost , Kolektif Hafıza , Siyonizm.

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