Binge-watching RussianDoll season 2 this weekend? When you've finished, Read gmgeisinger's thoughts on how the show's 'exploration of Jewish history is the perfect antidote to oft-peddled Holocaust trauma porn':
that sees a group of Nazi hunters in the 70s take down those people who escaped prosecution for their war crimes. Their 'contemporary' missions are contextualised through flashbacks to World War Two, and one such trip down memory lane involved a group of Auschwitz imprisoned Jewish musicians suddenly, in an act of wild rebellion, playing Hava Nagila .
For Jewish audiences, persecution is a trauma we know viscerally: it is the foundation of our holidays, it is baked into our foods, and becomes part of modern lives – whether we are secular or observant. It is explored again and again in a variety of ways, but rarely is it handled with the kind of bare-knuckle, almost defiant casualness of Nadia Vulvokov.
Forced into a hugely anachronistic environment, Nadia's laissez-faire attitude comes up against the era's gender roles, as well as racial and ethnic divides as well. As she propels her way through 1940s Budapest, she never loses one ounce of her swagger. She has a mission – find the Krugerrands, andBut what she finds is so much more, and that gives her so much more to lose.
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