Holocaust memory reframed : museums and the challenges of representation

✍ Scribed by Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 279
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In Holocaust Memory Reframed, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich examines Holocaust representations in three museums: Israel's Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Germany's Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. As she interprets the exhibits, Hansen-Glucklich clarifies how museums communicate Holocaust narratives within the historical and cultural contexts specific to Germany, Israel, and the United States. Read more...

Abstract: In Holocaust Memory Reframed, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich examines Holocaust representations in three museums: Israel's Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Germany's Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. As she interprets the exhibits, Hansen-Glucklich clarifies how museums communicate Holocaust narratives within the historical and cultural contexts specific to Germany, Israel, and the United States

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Zakhor: the task of Holocaust remembrance, questions of representation, and the sacred --
Daniel Libeskind's architecture of absence in the Jewish Museum Berlin --
Architectures of redemption and experience: Yad Vashem and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum --
The artful eye: learning to see and perceive otherwise inside museum exhibits --
"We are the last witnesses:" artifact, aura, and authenticity --
Refiguring the sacred through words, flames, and trains --
Rituals of remembrance: Zionism and pilgrimage on Har Hazikaron and encountering the void in Berlin.

✦ Subjects

Museum architecture. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Museums. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture. Memorialization. Symbolism in architecture. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching. Museum techniques. Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999- ) Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. -- Muzeʼon.

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