Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich

Holocaust Memory Reframed

Museums and the Challenges of Representation

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780813563237
• ISBN-10: 0813563232
• Artikelnr.: 40622282

Autorenporträt

 JENNIFER HANSEN-GLUCKLICH teaches German language and literature in the department of Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Mary Washington.  

Inhaltsangabe

Zakhor: the task of Holocaust remembrance, questions of representation, and
the sacred
Daniel Libeskind's architecture of absence in the Jewish Museum Berlin
Architectures of redemption and experience: Yad Vashem and the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum
The artful eye: learning to see and perceive otherwise inside museum
exhibits
"We are the last witnesses:" artifact, aura, and authenticity
Refiguring the sacred through words, flames, and trains
Rituals of remembrance: Zionism and pilgrimage on Har Hazikaron and
encountering the void in Berlin