Holocaust remembrance between the national and the transnational
Subtitle: the Stockholm International Forum and the first decade of the International Task Force
By: Larissa Allwork
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781441185884
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Historiography; Memorialization; Public opinion; Collective memory; Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust (2000)
Description: "Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe and the Nazi-era past in the world arena. It uses a range of primary documentation from the restitution conferences, speeches and presentations made at the Stockholm International Forum of 2000 (SIF 2000), a global event and an attempt to mark a defining moment in the inter-cultural construction of the political and institutional memory of the Holocaust in the USA, Europe and Israel. Containing oral history interviews with delegates to the conference and contemporary press reports, this book explores the inter-relationships between global and national Holocaust remembrances. The causes, consequences and 'cosmopolitan' intellectual context for understanding the SIF 2000 are discussed in great detail. Larissa Allwork examines this seminal moment in efforts to globally promote the important, if ever controversial, topics of Holocaust remembrance, worldwide Genocide prevention and the commemoration of the Nazi past. Providing a balanced assessment of the Stockholm Project, this book is an important study for those interested in the remembrance of the Holocaust and the Third Reich, as well as the recent global direction in memory studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( pages 209-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Money ought not to be the last memory of the Holocaust: the international and transnational historical context for the Stockholm International Forum; title: Connecting with the world? The international task force and the organization and media reception of the Stockholm International Forum; title: The global legacies of the Stockholm International Forum (2000): The subsequent Stockholm conferences and the International Task Force (2000-2008); title: Holocaust remembrance between the national and transnational: the International Task Force British/Lithuanian "liaison project"; title: Interpreting the SIF 2000: the limits of the "new cosmopolitan" global theory.