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Memorializing the Holocaust : gender, genocide, and collective memory / Janet Jacobs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2010.Description: xxviii, 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781848851023 (hbk.)
  • 1848851022 (hbk.)
  • 1848851030 (pbk.)
  • 9781848851030 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940/JAC 22 3483
LOC classification:
  • D804.17 .J33 2010
Contents:
Introduction: the project of memory and the study of the Holocaust -- Genocide and the ethics of feminist scholarship -- Gender and collective memory: women and representation at Auschwitz -- Ravensbrück: the memorialization of women's suffering and survival -- Jewish memory and the emasculation of the sacred: Kristallnacht in the German landscape -- Gender and remembrance: pre-nineteenth-century Jews in European memory -- Relational narratives in survivor memory and the future of Holocaust memorialization.
Summary: How do collective memories of histories of violence and trauma in war and genocide come to be created? Janet Jacobs offers new understandings of this crucial issue in her examination of the representation of gender in the memorial culture of holocaust monuments and museums.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-168) and index.

Introduction: the project of memory and the study of the Holocaust -- Genocide and the ethics of feminist scholarship -- Gender and collective memory: women and representation at Auschwitz -- Ravensbrück: the memorialization of women's suffering and survival -- Jewish memory and the emasculation of the sacred: Kristallnacht in the German landscape -- Gender and remembrance: pre-nineteenth-century Jews in European memory -- Relational narratives in survivor memory and the future of Holocaust memorialization.

How do collective memories of histories of violence and trauma in war and genocide come to be created? Janet Jacobs offers new understandings of this crucial issue in her examination of the representation of gender in the memorial culture of holocaust monuments and museums.

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