Holocaust Memorial Museum - Sacred Secular Space

Zusatztext "Alba's book is an outstanding contribution to the discussion of what can and ought to follow the imminent arrival of the post-participant stage in Holocaust memorialization." (Arthur Shostak! The European Legacy! Vol. 22 (5)! March! 2017)  Informationen zum Autor Avril Alba is Lecturer in Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation at the University of Sydney, Australia. From 2002-2011 she was the Education Director at the Sydney Jewish Museum where she also served as the Project Director/Curator for the refurbishment of the Sydney Jewish Museum's permanent exhibition 'Culture and Continuity'. She teaches, researches and consults in the areas of Holocaust representation, Jewish and museum studies. Klappentext The Holocaust Memorial Museum reveals and traces the transformation of ancient Jewish symbols, rituals, archetypes and narratives deployed in these sites. Demonstrating how cloaking the 'secular' history of the Holocaust in sacred garb, memorial museums generate redemptive yet conflicting visions of the meaning and utility of Holocaust memory. Zusammenfassung The Holocaust Memorial Museum reveals and traces the transformation of ancient Jewish symbols! rituals! archetypes and narratives deployed in these sites. Demonstrating how cloaking the 'secular' history of the Holocaust in sacred garb! memorial museums generate redemptive yet conflicting visions of the meaning and utility of Holocaust memory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Holocaust Memorial Museum: A Built Theodicy 2. Negative Epiphany: From Sinai To Washington 3. From Tent to Temple: Resurrection in Jerusalem 4. A Redeemer Cometh: The Survivor in the Space Conclusion: The Return of Myth to History

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"Alba's book is an outstanding contribution to the discussion of what can and ought to follow the imminent arrival of the post-participant stage in Holocaust memorialization." (Arthur Shostak, The European Legacy, Vol. 22 (5), March, 2017)

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• Authors: Avril Alba
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137451354
• ISBN: 978-1-137-45135-4
• No. of pages: 263
• Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts; The Holocaust and its Contexts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, History, Cultural Studies, Social & cultural history, world history, Second World War, Judaism, Cultural Heritage, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Jewish Cultural Studies, Judaism and culture