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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Well written and organized, fresh and significant. . . . Hansen-Glucklich successfully navigates the mechanics and aesthetics of Holocaust museums and their displays, from Berlin, to Jerusalem, to Washington, DC, offering engaging and inviting analyses." -- Oren Stier * author of Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust *
"For centuries, museums have cared for collections of artistic, cultural, historical, and scientifically important artifacts. They have enlightened a public on broad aspects of humanity's achievement. Holocaust museums do not fit this inherently positive definition. Their role, rather, is to commemorate, represent, evoke, and document a past of horror. In this elegantly written and structured book, Hansen-Glucklich focuses on three distinct museums: that at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Essential." * Choice *
Table of ContentsZakhor: the task of Holocaust remembrance, questions of representation, and the sacred
Daniel Libeskind's architecture of absence in the Jewish Museum Berlin
Architectures of redemption and experience: Yad Vashem and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
The artful eye: learning to see and perceive otherwise inside museum exhibits
"We are the last witnesses:" artifact, aura, and authenticity
Refiguring the sacred through words, flames, and trains
Rituals of remembrance: Zionism and pilgrimage on Har Hazikaron and encountering the void in Berlin
