Victoria Bishop Kendzia

Visitors to the House of Memory

Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As one of the most visited museums in Germanyâ s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity.

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Produktdetails

• Museums and Collections
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781789208443
• ISBN-10: 1789208440
• Artikelnr.: 58593824

Autorenporträt

Victoria Bishop Kendzia is a teaching fellow at Humboldt University, Berlin. Her publications include "'Jewish' Ethnic Options in Germany between Attribution and Choice: Auto-Ethnographical Reflections at the Jewish Museum Berlin" in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. She completed her doctorate at Humboldt's Institute of European Ethnology.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Focus of the Research and Methodological Approach: The Research
Question
Chapter 2. Memory, Political Education and the Positioning of the JMB: From
Memory to Remembrance to Past Presencing
Chapter 3. Betroffenheit: The Museum Visit as an Embodied Memorial
Experience
Chapter 4. The Visit as a Predominantly "Touristic" Activity
Chapter 5. Between Engagement, Playful Appropriation, and Exclusion
Chapter 6. Concluding Reflections: From the Museum as a Field Site to a
More Inclusive Culture of Memory
Afterword
Appendix
Bibliography
Index