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The Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sacred Secular Space (The Holocaust and its Contexts)
by Avril AlbaThe 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... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World
by Michael E. Staub • Donna-Lee Frieze • Tony Kushner • Marjorie N. Feld • Sarah Phillips Casteel • Shirli Gilbert • Amos Goldberg • Avril Alba • Milton Shain • Suzanne D. Rutland • Dan J. Puckett • David Slucki • James Jordan • Michael Rothberg • Bashir Bashir • Steven Cooke • Dorota GlowackaThe Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Western educators and politicians draw seemingly obvious lessons of tolerance and anti-racism from the Nazi past, and their work rests on the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019