In this study of Holocaust memorials, James E. Young explores both the idea of the monument and its role in public memory, disucssing how every nation remembers the Holocaust according to its own traditions, ideals, and experiences, and how these memorials reflect the ever-evolving meanings of the Holocaust in Europe, Israel and America. The result is a study of Holocaust memory, public art and their fusion in contemporary life.
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After having read this book for my historical anthropology class, I was completely taken by its broad-based approach to analyzing monuments and the histories they possess. To fully appreciate this book, the difference between 'history' and 'the past' must be understood. 'The past' is everything that has already happened. As soon as a second passes, the past has been constructed simulatenously the world over. History, on the other hand, is how people, cultures, governments, etc. choose to present sections of the past. History is a section of the past that is magnified and often made to represent the entire past despite its fragmented recounting. Young does an excellent job of showing how four different countries recall the same events (the holocaust, the Warsaw ghetto uprising, among others) with different and unique results, demonstrating how 'history' differs from 'the past'; each history is a different retelling of a country's perception of 'the past'. He analyzes these methods of remembrance through monuments and the outcome is an excellent analysis of how memory is constructed and interpreted and how personal experience shapes and influences one's perspective on the past, thus influencing their perception of history. The book is well written with many pictures and historical tidbits to place monuments in their proper context (although, after reading the book, you come to realize that monuments have no true proper context). I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the holocaust, theory of history, art history, or cultural studies. Excellent book.
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A sensitive and important book on the complex struggle to memorialize and in particular the holocaust
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The further events of World War II recede into time, the more prominent its memorials become. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Yom Hashoah, Los Angeles, Nathan Rapoport, Babi Yar, Jewish Fighting Organization, Polish Jews, Yad Mordechai, San Francisco, Soviet Union, Eretz Israel, Scroll of Fire, The Plural Faces, Wiesenthal Center, Monika Krajewska, New England, Lohamei Hageta'ot, Mordechai Anielewicz, Red Army, American Jewish, European Jewry, Hall of Remembrance, Janusz Korczak, Nazi Germany, Social Democrats New!
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The further events of World War II recede into time, the more prominent its memorials become. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Yom Hashoah, Los Angeles, Nathan Rapoport, Babi Yar, Jewish Fighting Organization, Polish Jews, Yad Mordechai, San Francisco, Soviet Union, Eretz Israel, Scroll of Fire, The Plural Faces, Wiesenthal Center, Monika Krajewska, New England, Lohamei Hageta'ot, Mordechai Anielewicz, Red Army, American Jewish, European Jewry, Hall of Remembrance, Janusz Korczak, Nazi Germany, Social Democrats New!
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- The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt by Reuben Ainsztein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Black Book: Documents the Nazis' Destruction of 1.5 Million Soviet Jews by ILYA Ehrenburg on page 149, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Use and Abuse of History by Friedrich Nietzsche in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genette in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- After Tragedy and Triumph: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought and the American Experience by Michael Berenbaum in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust by Shelley Hornstein on 5 pages
- Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity by Siobhan Kattago on 4 pages
- Figuration / Abstraction: Strategies for Public Sculpture in Europe 1945-1968 (Subject/Object New Studies in Sculpture) by Charlotte Benton on page 190, page 210, and Back Matter
- Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma by Ana Douglass in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust by Jeffrey Shandler in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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