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How Should Germany Commemorate The Mass Murder Of Jews Once Committed In Its Name? In 1997, James E. Young Was Invited To Join A German Commission Appointed To Find An Appropriate Design For A National Memorial In Berlin To The European Jews Killed In World War Ii. As The Only Foreigner And Only Jew On The Panel, Young Gained A Unique Perspective On Germany's Fraught Efforts To Memorialize The Holocaust. In This Book, He Tells For The First Time The Inside Story Of Germany's National Holocaust Memorial And His Own Role In It. In Exploring Germany's Memorial Crisis, Young Also Asks The More General Question Of How A Generation Of Contemporary Artists Can Remember An Event Like The Holocaust, Which It Never Knew Directly.--book Jacket. Art Spiegelman's Maus And The After-images Of History -- David Levinthal's Mein Kampf : History, Toys, And The Play Of Memory -- Sites Unseen : Shimon Attie's Acts Of Remembrance, 1991-1996 -- Memory, Countermemory, And The End Of The Monument : Horst Hoheisel, Micha Ullman, Rachel Whiteread, And Renata Stih And Frieder Schnock -- Memory Against Itself In Germany Today : Jochen Gerz's Countermonuments -- Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum In Berlin : The

Author

James Edward Young

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300080322

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Rating

4.25 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13