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The Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sacred Secular Space (The Holocaust and its Contexts) by Avril Alba, University of Sydney, Australia is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sacred Secular Space (The Holocaust and its Contexts) about?
The Holocaust Memorial Museum reveals and traces the transformation of ancient Jewish symbols, rituals, archetypes and narratives deployed in these sites. Demonstrating how cloaking the 'secular' history of the Holocaust in sacred garb, memorial museums generate redemptive yet conflicting visions of the meaning and utility of Holocaust memory.
Who reads The Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sacred Secular Space (The Holocaust and its Contexts)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Avril Alba, University of Sydney, Australia
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349575886
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Anthropology, Judaism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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