‘After the Holocaust: National Attitudes to Jews’THE TEXTURE OF MEMORY: HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS AND MEANING
Like literary and historical narratives of the Holocaust, its memorials also recall both the events and the national myths, religious archetypes and ideological paradigms along whose contours remembrance has been constructed. In their iconographic and architectonic organization, Holocaust memorials...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1989
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1989, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-76 |
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| Summary: | Like literary and historical narratives of the Holocaust, its memorials also recall both the events and the national myths, religious archetypes and ideological paradigms along whose contours remembrance has been constructed. In their iconographic and architectonic organization, Holocaust memorials reflect particular kinds of political and cultural knowledge even as they shape the understanding future generations will have of this time. This essay examines the ways Holocaust memory is performed in seleced memorial spaces, museum exhibitions, and monuments in Europe, Israel, and America. The aim here will be to examine the activity itself of Holocaust memorialization, from these memorials conception through their construction, from their reception in the local community to their place in the national commemorative cycle. The twin objects of such an inquiry are both Holocaust memory and a critical awareness of how this memory is gained. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/4.1.63 |