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Michael R. Hayse, J. E. Young

1996.10.1GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW

DOI: 10.2307/1432567

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Holocaust memorials and meaning explored through the lens of texture, ambiguity, and performance in Germany, Poland, Israel, and America.

Abstract

The Texture of Memory PART I Germany: The Ambiguity Memory - The Counter-monument: Memory Against Itself in Germany Today The Sites of Destruction The Gestapo-Gelande Austria's Ambivalent Memory. PART 2 Poland: The Ruins of Memory - The Rhetoric of Ruins - Majdanek and Auschwitz The Biography of a Memorial Icon - The Warsaw Ghetto Monument Broken Tablets and Jewish Memory in Poland Today. PART 3 Israel: Holocaust, Heroism and National Redemption: Israel's Memorial Landscape: Forests, Monuments, Kibbutzim Yad Vashem - Israel's Memorial Authority When a Day Remembers - A Performative History of Yom Hashoah. PART 4 America: Memory and the Politics of Identity - The Plural Faces of Memory in America Memory and the Politics of Identity - Boston and Washington, DC.

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HAYSE, Michael R.; YOUNG, J. E. The texture of memory: Holocaust memorials and meaning. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW, 1996, 19: 588.