The Texture of Memory; Holocaust Memorials and Meaning
by James E. YoungEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1994-01-25
Publisher(s): Yale Unversity Press
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Summary
this book explores both the idea of the monument and its role in public memory, discussing 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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: The Texture of Memory | p. 1 |
| Germany: The Ambiguity of Memory | p. 17 |
| The Countermonument: Memory against Itself in Germany | p. 27 |
| The Sites of Destruction | p. 49 |
| The Gestapo-Gelande: Topography of Unfinished Memory | p. 81 |
| Austria's Ambivalent Memory | p. 91 |
| Poland: The Ruins of Memory | p. 113 |
| The Rhetoric of Ruins: The Memorial Camps at Majdanek and Auschwitz | p. 119 |
| The Biography of a Memorial Icon: Nathan Rapoport's Warsaw Ghetto Monument | p. 155 |
| Broken Tablets and Jewish Memory in Poland | p. 185 |
| Israel: Holocaust, Heroism, and National Redemption | p. 209 |
| Israel's Memorial Landscape: Forests, Monuments, and Kibbutzim | p. 219 |
| Yad Vashem: Israel's Memorial Authority | p. 243 |
| When a Day Remembers: A Performative History of Yom Hashoah | p. 263 |
| America: Memory and the Politics of Identity | p. 283 |
| The Plural Faces of Holocaust Memory in America | p. 287 |
| Memory and the Politics of Identity: Boston and Washington, D.C. | p. 323 |
| Notes | p. 351 |
| Bibliography | p. 373 |
| Index | p. 391 |
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