Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Representations
Angaben zur Quelle:
26 (1989) 69-106
Keywords:
Rapoport, Nathan,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art
;
Jews History 1918-1945
;
Jewish ghettos History 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
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Holocaust memorials
Abstract:
The Jewish sculptor Natan Rapoport was born in 1911 in Warsaw; he fled to the USSR in 1939. Outlines events of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943. Repatriated to Poland in 1946, Rapoport's proposal for a monument to honor the ghetto uprising was accepted by the Warsaw Jewish Committee and Warsaw City Arts Committee. It was unveiled in April 1948. Since there is no separate memorial of the Polish uprising of 1944, the Warsaw Ghetto Monument has become the focus for Polish memorial ceremonies as well. Describes the content and meaning of the Monument's figures. Emphasizes that the memories and the symbolism evoked mean different things to different viewers. Points to the essentially public dimension of monuments, and the historical understanding generated by them. The Monument was recast in Israel following the Six-Day War when, as Polish Jews were purged from the party and unions, it was feared that the Monument's Jewish significance and character would be lost.
Note:
Appeared also in his collection "The Texture of Memory" (1993) 155-184. An abridged version appeared in French in "Pardès" 13 (1991) 57-85, and in German in "Wiener Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen" 3 (1997-1998) 75-95.
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