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Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin / Irit Dekel.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: D804.175.B4 D454 2013

Overview

Summary: Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin offers a novel approach to the memorial and its study through the focus on performances. Based on extensive ethnographic research, and drawing on dramaturgic theory, memory studies and theories of the public sphere, the book offers a fresh theorization of memorial experience by analyzing interaction between guides, memorial workers and visitors. Moving away from models of postmemory and post trauma approaches, the book recognizes the precariousness and variation of memory work done at the memorial through the ways visitors engages with the act of remembrance rather than with its object, namely the history of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust. This engagement explores how visitors present and perform their 'moral career' at the site, whose codes have been shaped by knowledge about and visits in this and other sites of Holocaust remembrance.
Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Dekel, Irit.
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Locale: Germany
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Electronic address (http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=serviceetdoc_library=BVB01etdoc_number=026130514etline_number=0001etfunc_code=DB_RECORDSetservice_type=MEDIA) not available when searched on Nov. 28, 2018. Electronic version(s) available.
Electronic version Hosted by ProQuest
ISBN: 023036330X
9780230363304
Additional Form: Electronic version available online.
Physical Description: xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Berlin, Germany) Mediation--Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Psychological aspects. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Influence.

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