Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Tradition; a Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,2 (1994) 19-33
Keywords:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
Abstract:
Reflects on how Holocaust memorials are perceived by the American public, both Jews and non-Jews (e.g. the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington), and by Jewish tradition. Holocaust memorials pose a series of questions: whether a memorial may be erected to commemorate not a victory, or heroism, but a defeat and the victims; what such a memorial can say to non-Jewish Americans and whether the Holocaust, in its exposition, may be "Americanized" or generalized; whether Jewish tradition allows for memorials with artifacts; and whether there is a danger in substituting the memory of the Holocaust for religion and in presenting the Jewish people as an abstract symbol of victimization.
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