ISBN:
0300059914
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0300053835
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 398 S
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Ill
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26 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Borodziej, Włodzimierz, 1956 - 2021 [Rezension von: Young, James Edward, 1951-, The texture of memory] 1997
DDC:
940.53/18
Keywords:
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Holocaust
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Europe
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Holocaust
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Israel
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Holocaust
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United States
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art
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Art,
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20th century
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Public art
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Holocaust,
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Museums
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Gedenkstätte
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Judenvernichtung
Description / Table of 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Literaturverz. S. [373] - 390
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-390) and index
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