Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland, Michael Meng (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), xiv + 351 pp., hardcover, 35.00
Shattered Spaces tells the complex story of material traces of Jewish life in Germany and Poland over the last sixty years. In this excellent study of the multiple factors responsible for “turning rubble into ruins” during those six decades, Michael Meng asks why and how, in what has become a “regio...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 154-156 |
| Review of: | Shattered spaces (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2011) (Zubrzycki, Geneviève)
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| Summary: | Shattered Spaces tells the complex story of material traces of Jewish life in Germany and Poland over the last sixty years. In this excellent study of the multiple factors responsible for “turning rubble into ruins” during those six decades, Michael Meng asks why and how, in what has become a “region of few Jews,” seemingly worthless broken bricks and stones from destroyed Jewish buildings, neighborhoods, and cemeteries were first ignored and then transformed into meaningful and prized cultural objects. The book is part urban history, part sociological study of collective memory-making. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct018 |