Preserving Memory
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: October 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780231124072
Subjects: Museums & Museology; The Holocaust; History; History - General History; History: World; USA; Holocaust; History / United States / General; General; 1981-1989; Exhibitions; Holocaust memorials; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Political aspects; Politics and government; United States; United States Holocaust Memori
First sentence: THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION'S DECISION to create a commission whose task it was to recommend an appropriate national Holocaust memorial is often characterized as "political," implying that the underlying motivation had little to do with interest in Holocaust memory and everything to do with the domestic political priority of appeasing Jewish interests.