Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory

✍ Scribed by Janet Jacobs

• Publisher: I. B. Tauris
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How do collective memories of histories of violence and trauma in war and genocide come to be created? Janet Jacobs offers new understandings of this crucial issue in her examination of the representation of gender in the memorial culture of Holocaust monuments and museums, from synagogue memorials and other historical places of Jewish life, to the geographies of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Ravensbruck.Jacobs travelled to Holocaust sites across Europe to explore representations of women. She reveals how these memorial cultures construct masculinity and femininity, as well as the Holocaust's effect on stereotyping on grounds of race or gender. She also uncovers the wider ways in which images of violence against women have become universal symbols of mass trauma and genocide. This feminist analysis of Holocaust memorialization brings together gender and collective memory with the geographies of genocide to fill a significant gap in our understanding of genocide and national remembrance. 

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: The Project of Memory and the Study of the Holocaust......Page 14
1. Genocide and the Ethics of Feminist Scholarship......Page 30
2. Gender and Collective Memory: Women and Representation at Auschwitz......Page 56
3. Ravensbruck: The Memorialization of Women's Suffering and Survival......Page 78
4. Jewish Memory and the Emasculation of the Sacred: Kristallnacht in the German Landscape......Page 112
5. Gender and Remembrance: Pre-Nineteenth-Century Jews in European Memory......Page 136
6. Relational Narratives in Survivor Memory and the Future of Holocaust Memorialization......Page 168
Bibliography......Page 188
Index......Page 198