Main entry:

Young, James Edward, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [1993]
©1993

Description:

xvii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-390) and index.
Introduction: The texture of memory -- Part I: Germany: the ambiguity of memory -- The countermonument: memory against itself in Germany -- The sites of destruction -- The Gestapo-Gelände: topography of unfinished memory -- Austria's ambivalent memory -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: 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 -- Part IV: 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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In this landmark study of Holocaust memorials, James E. Young explores both the idea of the monument and its role in public memory, discussing 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 groundbreaking study of Holocaust memory, public art, and their fusion in contemporary life." -- Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

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

Subject:

Gedenkstätte
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.
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.
public art.
15.70 history of Europe.
20.19 art and society: other.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in art.
Art, Modern.
Holocaust memorials.
Museums.
Denkmal
Judenvernichtung
Holocaust.
Gedachtenis.
Gedenktekens.
Monumentale kunst.
Holocaust a sztuka.
Holocaust muzealnictwo.
Holocaust pamiątki.
Holocaust pomniki.
Pomniki od 1945 r.
Europe.
Israel.
United States.
Jews Genocide

Holdings:

Location: Library main 103448
Call No.: ID D804.3.Y68; ID:94-B1784
Status: Available