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kobvindex_JMB00089765
Format:
217 Seiten
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ISBN:
9783034312431
Content:
This book reveals the critical role of architecture in the assimilation of the ideologies and values conveyed at Holocaust museums around the world. Through the architectural analysis of sixteen museums, social, cultural and political agendas will be unfolded. While the distance in time and place raises the need to create innovative forms of display to reach an audience removed from the Holocaust, the degree to which this can be done by the museums' exhibits alone is limited. This book shows that architecture, as an abstract form of expression, plays a major role in the conception of Holocaust museums. By conveying values that cannot otherwise be expressed, the museums' architecture becomes integral to its narrative and, through it, to the construction of collective memories of the Holocaust. Constructing a Collective Memory of the Holocaust The Role of Architecture in Constructing Collective Memory Establishing Yad Vashem Establishing the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum Yad LaYeled: A Memorial to the Children The New Museum at Yad Vashem Renovations at the Ghetto Fighters' House Diverse Holocaust Museums in Israel: Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies, The Museum of Holocaust and Resurrection in Yad Mordechai The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Subsequent American Holocaust Museums The Jewish Museum Berlin The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Post-Communist Holocaust Museums: The Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, The Museum of the History of Polish Jews Concluding Thoughts on the Future of Holocaust Museums: The Museo della Shoah in Rome, Tkuma Holocaust Museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Language:
English
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