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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Edward Young; Mazal Holocaust Collection. |
ISBN: | 0300053835 9780300053838 0300059914 9780300059915 |
OCLC Number: | 27012606 |
Description: | xvii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : The texture of memory -- pt. 1. Germany : the ambiguity of memory. The countermonument : memory against itself -- The sites of destruction -- The Gestapo-Gelände : topography of unfinished memory -- Austria's ambivalent memory -- pt. 2. Poland : the ruins of memory. The rhetoric of ruins : the memorial camps at Majdanek and Auschwitz -- The biography of a memorial icon : Nathan Rapoport's Warsaw Ghetto Monument -- Broken tablets and Jewish memory in Poland -- pt. 3. Israel : Holocaust, heroism, and national redemption. Israel's memorial landscape ; forests, monuments, and kibbutzim -- Yad Vashem : Israel's memorial authority -- When a day remembers : a performative history of Yom Hashoah -- pt. 4. America : memory and the politics of identity. The plural faces of Holocaust memory in America -- Memory and the politics of identity : Boston and Washington, D.C. |
Responsibility: | James E. Young. |
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Abstract:
Examines Holocaust monuments and museums, exploring how memorials reflect their place in aesthetic and architectural discourse. Among the issues discussed are how memorials suppress as much as they commemorate, and the differences between memorials conceived by victims and victimizers.
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