Committed to Memory
Subtitle: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781558494084
Subjects: Cultural studies; Jewish studies; The Holocaust; Religion - World Religions; Jewish - General; Jewish Holocaust; History; Religion; USA; Holocaust; Judaism - History; Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),; Influence; Memory
First sentence: MEMORY MATTERS. Turn on the television, open a newspaper or magazine, and you will likely find, before too long, some mention of the impact the past has made and continues to make on the present.
Description: "This book offers a close and critical analysis of a range of cultural activities that mediate the Holocaust for a public increasingly distant from the events of World War II. Oren Baruch Stier argues that the manner in which those events are committed to memory, coupled with the fervent dedication to memory exhibited by many people and institutions, produces distinct memorial mediations of the Shoah." "In the end, Stier asks what role forgetting can and does play in the memorial landscape, demonstrating how critical attention to our memorial investments, and to the mechanics and media of memory's construction and transmission, can uncover what is both gained and lost in these commitments."--Jacket.