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Author Jacobs, Janet Liebman. http://viaf.org/viaf/26173637, author

Title Memorializing the Holocaust : gender, genocide, and collective memory / Janet Jacobs.

Imprint London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2010.
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Phys. Description xxviii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content Type text
Media Type unmediated
Carrier Type volume
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168) and index.
Contents Introduction: the project of memory and the study of the Holocaust -- Genocide and the ethics of feminist scholarship -- Gender and collective memory: women and representation at Auschwitz -- Ravensbrück: the memorialization of women's suffering and survival -- Jewish memory and the emasculation of the sacred: Kristallnacht in the German landscape -- Gender and remembrance: pre-nineteenth-century Jews in European memory -- Relational narratives in survivor memory and the future of Holocaust memorialization.
Summary How do collective memories of histories of violence and trauma in war and genocide come to be created? Janet Jacobs offers new understandings of this crucial issue in her examination of the representation of gender in the memorial culture of holocaust monuments and museums.
Subject Holocaust memorials.
Collective memory.
Jewish women in the Holocaust.
Gender identity.
Memorialization.
ISBN 9781848851023 (hbk.)
1848851022 (hbk.)
1848851030 (pbk.)
9781848851030 (pbk.)
RELATED TO Online version: Jacobs, Janet Liebman. Memorializing the Holocaust. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2010 (OCoLC)776834994