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Author:

Young, James Edward.

Title:

The texture of memory : Holocaust memorials and meaning / James E. Young.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

xvii, 398 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Holocaust memorials--Europe.
Holocaust memorials--Israel.
Holocaust memorials--United States.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
Art, Modern--20th century.
Public art.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Museums.
Genocide--Genocide
Holocaust.
Gedachtenis.
Gedenktekens.
Monumentale kunst.
Monuments de l'Holocauste--Europe.
Monuments de l'Holocauste--Israël.
Monuments de l'Holocauste--États-Unis.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans l'art.
Art--20e siècle.
Art public.
Holocauste, 1939-1945--Musées.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-390) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : The texture of memory -- pt. 1. Germany : the ambiguity of memory. The countermonument : memory against itself -- The sites of destruction -- The Gestapo-Gelände : topography of unfinished memory -- Austria's ambivalent memory -- pt. 2. Poland : the ruins of memory. The rhetoric of ruins : the memorial camps at Majdanek and Auschwitz -- The biography of a memorial icon : Nathan Rapoport's Warsaw Ghetto Monument -- Broken tablets and Jewish memory in Poland -- pt. 3. Israel : Holocaust, heroism, and national redemption. Israel's memorial landscape ; forests, monuments, and kibbutzim -- Yad Vashem : Israel's memorial authority -- When a day remembers : a performative history of Yom Hashoah -- pt. 4. America : memory and the politics of identity. The plural faces of Holocaust memory in America -- Memory and the politics of identity : Boston and Washington, D.C.

ISBN:

9780300059915
0300059914
9780300053838 (alk. paper)
0300053835 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

92040888

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)