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The Texture of Memory - Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Texture of Memory - Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (Paperback, New Ed)
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In Dachau, Auschwitz, Yad Vashem, and thousands of other locations
throughout the world, memorials to the Holocaust are erected to
commemorate its victims and its significance. This fascinating work
by James E. Young examines Holocaust monuments and museums in
Europe, Israel, and America, exploring how every nation remembers
the Holocaust according to its own traditions, ideals, and
experiences, and how these memorials reflect their place in
contemporary aesthetic and architectural discourse. The result is a
groundbreaking study of Holocaust memory, public art, and their
fusion in contemporary life. Among the issues Young discusses are:
how memorials suppress as much as they commemorate; how museums
tell as much about their makers as about events; the differences
between memorials conceived by victims and by victimizers; and the
political uses and abuses of officially cast memory. Young
describes, for example, Germany's "counter monuments," one of which
was designed to disappear over time, and the Polish memorials that
commemorate the whole of Polish destruction through the figure of
its murdered Jewish part. He compares European museums and
monuments that focus primarily on the internment and killing
process with Israeli memorials that include portrayals of Jewish
life before and after the destruction. In his concluding chapters,
he finds that American Holocaust memorials are guided no less by
distinctly American ideals, such as liberty and pluralism.
Interweaving graceful prose and arresting photographs, the book is
eloquent testimony to the way varied cultures and nations
commemorate an era that breeds guilt, shame, pain, and amnesia, but
rarely pride. By reinvigorating these memorials with the stories of
their origins, Young highlights the ever-changing life of memory
over its seemingly frozen face in the landscape.
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