The Holocaust Memorial Museum Sacred Secular Space
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2015, 2015
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| Series: | The Holocaust and its Contexts
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | XI, 252 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781137451378 |