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This article demonstrates how experiences of voicing traumas in Israeli society are reflected in art through Ezekiel’s World, a graphic novel by Michael Kovner. The novel explores relations between Holocaust survivors and their children (and grandchildren), whose complexity embodies the moral significance of Holocaust memory for Israelis. Both generations are preoccupied with the Holocaust as an existential crisis that determines contrasting generational attitudes towards military service and the occupation, resulting in the sacrificing of children and conversely, the abandonment of parents. The polyphonic novel voices these interrelated traumas via intertextual relations between painting, narrative, poetry, and documentary.
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