The work of memory : new directions in the study of German society and culture / edited by Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Historicity -- From presence to remembrance / Craig Koslofsky -- Memory, history, and the Jewish question / Jonathan M. Hess -- How nostalgia narrates modernity / Peter Fritzsche -- Masters of memory / Marcus Funck and Stephan Malinowski -- Part 2. Everyday life -- Hildesheim in an age of pestilence / Andrew Stuart Bergerson -- Awakening from war / Heinrich Böll, Elizabeth Snyder Hook -- Memory and existence / Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke -- Part 3. Materiality -- An economy of memory / Paul Lerner -- Public relations as a site of memory / Jonathan Wiesen -- Gender, public policy, and memory / Elizabeth Heineman.