Postcards from Auschwitz: Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of RemembranceDaniel P. Reynolds
A tourist strikes a yoga pose while snapping an upside-down selfie. Only the tourist isn’t on the beach, fanned by neighboring spindly palm trees, but rather at the stark Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the center of Berlin. Around the tourist, people cry while others skateboard, the emot...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2021
|
| In: |
Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 483-485 |
| Review of: | Postcards from Auschwitz (New York : New York University Press, 2018) (Kaplan, Brett Ashley)
|
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
|
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | A tourist strikes a yoga pose while snapping an upside-down selfie. Only the tourist isn’t on the beach, fanned by neighboring spindly palm trees, but rather at the stark Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the center of Berlin. Around the tourist, people cry while others skateboard, the emotional landscape is as stable as a tsunami. In his important book, Postcards from Auschwitz: Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance, Daniel P. Reynolds connects tourism studies with Holocaust studies. While many scholars in the latter field have delved into the static memorial structures at former concentration camps, few have hitherto examined the more mobile experience of tourism at these spaces. This book offers a well-researched, clearly written contribution to these fields. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcab052 |