The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning more books like this

by James B Young

In this study of Holocaust memorials, James E. Young explores both the idea of the monument and its role in public memory, disucssing how every nation remembers the Holocaust according to its own traditions, ideals, and experiences, and how these memorials reflect the ever-evolving meanings of the Holocaust in Europe, Israel and America. The ...

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Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum more books like this

by Edward Tabor Linenthal

Linenthal, professor of Religion and American Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, outlines the 15-year campaign to build the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He traces the museum's beginnings in domestic politics, through the many stages of its conceptualization and every aspect of its realization.

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The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust more books like this

by Professor Geoffrey H Hartman

The author, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale, offers this disparate collection of personal essays and scholarly articles in his continuing effort to comprehend the diversity of personal responses to the Holocaust. He brings together such wide-ranging forms of response as historical research and survivors' testimony, as ...

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Holocaust Memorials in History: The Art of Memory more books like this

by James Edward Young (Editor)

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On European Ground more books like this

by Alan Cohen, Professor Sander L Gilman, Jonathan Bordo

This collection of photographs offer a visual meditation on the traumas that scar 20th-century Europe. Alan Cohen's photographs capture the essence of the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember about these places and what we can still observe in them today. Pictures ...

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Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory more books like this

by Professor Geoffrey H Hartman (Editor)

The recording, explanation and the inescapable task of judging great wrongs in the past presents historians with their most difficult assignment. For those who have either lived through such injustice or have been in some way responsible for it the impositions of memory are both painful and unavoidable. Memory shapes the future, and the ...

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The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France more books like this

by Caroline Wiedmer

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Dark Tourism more books like this

by Malcolm Foley, J John Lennon

Examines "dark tourism", where the sites of inhuman acts such as the concentration camps of World War II and the Berlin Wall become tourist destinations. These phenomena raise ethical issues over the status and nature of objects and what constitutes the right political and managerial response.

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Disciplining the Holocaust more books like this

by Karyn Ball

Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.

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Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979 more books like this

by Jonathan Huener

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world. This text is a history of the Auschwitz memorial site in the years of the Polish People's Republic. Since 1945, Auschwitz has functioned as ...

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How the Holocaust Looks Now: International Perspectives more books like this

by Martin L Davies (Editor), Claus-Christian W Szejnmann (Editor)

"How the Holocaust Looks Now" offers a series of essays that explore the historical culture the holocaust has engendered in Europe, Israel and the USA, the politics of its reception and representation since the 1950s, the motivations for and effectiveness of commemorating it, and the creative and didactic practices it has generated in contemporary ...

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Gedenkstatte: Gedenkstatte Am Neuen Borneplatz Fur Die Von Nationalsozialisten Vernichtete Dritte Judische Gemeinde in Frankfurt Am Main = Memorial: Memorial at the Neuer Borneplatz to the Third Jewish Community Exterminated by the National Socialists more books like this

by Klaus Klemp

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In Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Memorials more books like this

by Sybil Milton, Judah L Magnes Memorial Museum, Ira Nowinski (Photographer)

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The Continuing Agony: From the Carmelite Convent to the Crosses at Auschwitz more books like this

by Alan L Berger (Editor), Harry James Cargas (Editor), Susan E Nowak (Editor)

The Continuing Agony addresses the crucial and painful issues that continue to plague Christian-Jewish relations after Auschwitz. Despite these obstacles, the essays in this book profess hope for the future of a Jewish-Catholic dialogue.

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Concentration Camps: A Traveler's Guide to World War II Sites more books like this

by Marc Terrance

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The Holocaust in Israeli Public Debate in the 1950s: Ideology and Memory more books like this

by Roni Stauber

This book is the first comprehensive, as well as impartial, account of the various ways the people of the state of Israel, beginning with their social integration in the 1950s, grappled with the still fresh memory of the Holocaust and with finding a suitable way of commemorating it and passing that memory on to future generations. The public ...

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Forgotten places : the holocaust and the remnants of destruction : a photographic essay more books like this

by Stephen D. Smith

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Das Gedachtnis Der Dinge: Kz-Relikte Und Kz-Denkmaler 1945-1995 more books like this

by Detlef Hoffmann

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Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities: 1945-2000 more books like this

by Judith E Berman

Providing an Australian profile to modern scholarship about Holocaust remembrance, this title examines three public commemorative forms - Yom haShoah (Holocaust Day), Holocuast education and Holocaust museums - in the largest Jewish communities in Australia. What does the Holocaust mean to these communities?

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Nationaler Mythos Oder Historische Trauer?: Der Streit Um Ein Zentrales "Holocaust-Mahnmal" Fur Die Berliner Republik more books like this

by Jan-Holger Kirsch

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Oscar Israelowitz's United States Holocaust Memorial Museum & Washington, D.C. Guide more books like this

by Oscar Lsraelowitz, Oscar Israelowitz

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Viewing the Holocaust Today more books like this

by Philip Brooks

This series looks at all aspects of the Holocaust, from its roots to its ramifications. Readers confront the early racial doctrines of the Nazis; the step-by-step dehumanization of Jews; the implementation of the Final Solution; and contemporary views of the Holocaust. First-hand accounts and other primary source material are used extensively.

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Auf Den Schatten Gebaut: Von Der Inneren Zur Ausseren Entstehung Der Begegnungsstatte, Alte Synagoge Wuppertal more books like this

by Peter Busmann

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Die unsichtbaren Lager : das Verschwinden der Vergangenheit im Gedenken more books like this

by Reinhard Matz, Andrzej Szczypiorski

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Judenplatz Wien 1996: Wettbewerb, Mahnmal Und Gedenkstatte Fur Die Judischen Opfer Des Naziregimes in Osterreich 1938-1945 = Competition, Monument, and Memorial Site Dedicated to the Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime in Austria, 1938-1945 more books like this

by Lucas Gehrmann

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