Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

1 The Collapse of Versailles and the Nation- in- Arms

2 Bureaucratic Logic

3 Making Jews National in their Citizenship

4 Celebrations of the National: Holiday Occasions in Kindergartens

5 Celebrations of Bureaucratic Logic: Birthday Parties in Israeli Kindergartens

6 Opening Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Bureaucratic Logic and Aesthetics of National Mourning

7 Sequencing the National: Opening Remembrance Day and Independence Day

8 The Presence of Absence: The Memorialism of National Absence

9 Absence Rising: Telling Little Holocaust Stories, Shaping the National

Epilogue: The Cyborg State

Notes

Bibliography