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Authors: Oren Baruch Stier
ISBN-13: 9781558497955, ISBN-10: 1558497951
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Date Published: September 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Oren Baruch Stier

Book Synopsis

Stier (religious and Judaic studies, Florida International U.) explores how the Holocaust is remembered by surveying some of the media employed, and some of the people, groups, and institutions devoted to remembering it. Videotestimonies, museums, and tourism are among his topics. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Illustrations
	Preface
Ch. 1	Remembering Memory: Culture, Tradition, and the Memory Problem	1
Ch. 2	Inscribing Memory: Iconic Paradigms for Holocaust Remembrance	24
Ch. 3	Framing Memory: Videotestimonies and the Transmission of Holocaust Remembrance	67
Ch. 4	Mediating Memory: Holocaust Museums and the Display of Remembrance	110
Ch. 5	Performing Memory: Tourism, Pilgrimage, and the Ritual Appropriation of the Past	150
Conclusion	Remember Forgetting / Forget Remembering	191
	Notes	219
	Bibliography	257
	Index	271