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Holocaust Memory Reframed : Museums and the Challenges of Representation by Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer(Author) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In Holocaust Memory Reframed, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich examines Holocaust representations in three museums: Israel's Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Germany's Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. As she interprets the exhibits, Hansen-Glucklich clarifies how museums communicate Holocaust narratives within the historical and cultural contexts specific to Germany, Israel, and the United States. Abstract: In Holocaust Memory Reframed, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich examines Holocaust representations in three museums: Israel's Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Germany's Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. As she interprets the exhibits, Hansen-Glucklich clarifies how museums communicate Holocaust narratives within the historical and cultural contexts specific to Germany, Israel, and the United States "Memory is never shaped in a vacuum; the motives of memory are never pure." What do the museums show people, and what do they fail to show? Why? Memorialization tells us as much about the present as about the past. All libraries serving students engaged in Holocaust studies should acquire this
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer(Author)
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813571843
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Technology, History, Art