| Description |
xvii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-390) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The texture of memory -- pt. 1. Germany : the ambiguity of memory. The countermonument : memory against itself in Germany -- 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. |
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Holocaust memorials -- Europe.
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Holocaust memorials -- Israel.
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Holocaust memorials -- United States.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Public art.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Museums.
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| Indexed Term |
Jews Genocide |
| ISBN |
0300059914 |
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