Holocaust remembrance in Australian Jewish communities, 1945-2000
By: Judith E. Berman.
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Crawley, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Jews -- Australia -- Social life and customs.; Holocaust Remembrance Day -- Australia.; Holocaust memorials -- Australia.; Jews -- Education -- Australia.; Jewish museums -- Australia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Holocaust in Australian Jewish consciousness; title: PART I Yom haShoah commemorations; title: Chapter 1: Constructing an environment of memory; title: Date of commemorations; title: Scope of commemorations; title: Location and nature of commemorations; title: Rituals of commemorations; title: Chapter 2: The evolving format of commemorations; title: Youth or Yiddish?; title: Youth participation and wider Jewish community attendance; title: Youth participation: The survivors' perspective; title: Chapter 3: The evolving boundaries of memory; title: Commemoration of armed resistance; title: Commemoration of spiritual resistance; title: Absent memories; title: Chapter 4: The messages of memory; title: Jewish lessons and messages; title: The absence of universal lessons; title: PART II Holocaust education in Jewish day schools; title: Chapter 5: From commemoration to formal education; title: Early Jewish Studies staffing and curriculum; title: Formal, compulsory Holocaust study; title: Influences on the expansion of formal Holocaust teaching; title: Chapter 6: To know, remember and perpetuate memory of the Holocaust; title: Context of Holocaust study units; title: Focus of Holocaust study units; title: Motives behind Holocaust education; title: PART III Jewish Holocaust museums; title: Chapter 7: An 'open grave' and a 'beautiful monument'; title: Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre; title: Holocaust Institute of WA; title: Sydney Jewish Museum: of Australian Jewish History and the Holocaust; title: Initial Jewish community apathy towards the museums; title: The future of the museums; title: Chapter 8: 'The Holocaust must not be manipulated'; title: Visual representations of the Holocaust; title: Jewish identity and the Holocaust; title: Texts of the permanent exhibitions: Focus and absences; title: Representations of non-Jewish victims of Nazism; title: Universal humanist lessons of the Holocaust; title: Concluding displays and meanings; title: Australianization of the Holocaust?; title: Conclusion: The future of remembrance; title: Appendices; title: A Lessons and messages of the Holocaust in Yom haShoah speeches, 1944-95; title: B Teachers' questionnaire; title: C Holocaust studies: Relative emphasis of topics taught; title: D Holocaust studies: Relative emphasis of topics taught, according to teachers.