The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century Contesting/Contested Memories [Hardcover]

This volume locates and explores historical and contemporary sites of contested meanings of Holocaust memory across a range of geographical, geo-political, and disciplinary contexts, identifying and critically engaging with the nature and expression of these meanings within their relevant contexts, elucidating the political, social, and cultural underpinnings and consequences of these meanings, and offering interventions in the contemporary debates of Holocaust memory that suggest ways forward for the future.

Introduction: Jews, Bolsheviks and the Shoah Between Amnesia and Anamnesis

1. Holocaust Memory: Between Universal and Particular

2. Remembrance and Beyond: Holocaust Memory in Lived Time

3. Instrumentalization of Holocaust Memory and False Historical Analogies

4. The Jewish Cemetery of W?hring, Vienna: Competing Voices and Contested Discourses in the Austrian Restoration Debates

5. Through the Window: An Analysis of the United States Holocaust Museum Through the Theory of Zygmunt Bauman

6. Contesting Memories in Text and Image: Discursive Representation and Cognitive Construal

7. Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland