The Texture of Memory; Holocaust Memorials and Meaning

by James E. Young

• ISBN13: 9780300059915
• ISBN10: 0300059914
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1994-01-25
• Publisher: Yale Unversity Press

Summary

this book 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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Texture of Memory	p. 1
Germany: The Ambiguity of Memory	p. 17
The Countermonument: Memory against Itself in Germany	p. 27
The Sites of Destruction	p. 49
The Gestapo-Gelande: Topography of Unfinished Memory	p. 81
Austria's Ambivalent Memory	p. 91
Poland: The Ruins of Memory	p. 113
The Rhetoric of Ruins: The Memorial Camps at Majdanek and Auschwitz	p. 119
The Biography of a Memorial Icon: Nathan Rapoport's Warsaw Ghetto Monument	p. 155
Broken Tablets and Jewish Memory in Poland	p. 185
Israel: Holocaust, Heroism, and National Redemption	p. 209
Israel's Memorial Landscape: Forests, Monuments, and Kibbutzim	p. 219
Yad Vashem: Israel's Memorial Authority	p. 243
When a Day Remembers: A Performative History of Yom Hashoah	p. 263
America: Memory and the Politics of Identity	p. 283
The Plural Faces of Holocaust Memory in America	p. 287
Memory and the Politics of Identity: Boston and Washington, D.C.	p. 323
Notes	p. 351
Bibliography	p. 373
Index	p. 391
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