Narrating (Not) Belonging in Israel

Join Lilach Naishtat and Skyler Inman in conversation with Sarah Willen on belonging, collectivities, and self-transformation in Israel in the wake of trauma. Drawing on literary research with Buchenwald concentration camp survivors who united to establish Kibbutz Netzer Sereni in the wake of the Holocaust, and on anthropological research with Eritrean asylum seekers whom the State of Israel rejects and expects to “voluntarily” self-deport, this workshop will focus on the ways in which political conditions, together with language and narrative practices, shape forms of (not) belonging in Israel as a ‘Jewish state.’