Michael R. Hayse, J. E. Young
1996.10.1GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
tlooto Summary
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.
Citation format
HAYSE, Michael R.; YOUNG, J. E. The texture of memory: Holocaust memorials and meaning. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW, 1996, 19: 588.