Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

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Label

Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

Statement of responsibility

Irit Dekel

Creator

• Dekel, Irit

Subject

• Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Berlin, Germany)
• Holocaust memorials -- Germany | Berlin
• Citizenship -- Germany
• Memory
• Mediation

Language

eng

Summary

"Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin offers a novel approach to the memorial and its study through the focus on performances. Based on extensive ethnographic research, and drawing on dramaturgic theory, memory studies and theories of the public sphere, the book offers a fresh theorization of memorial experience by analyzing interaction between guides, memorial workers and visitors. Moving away from models of postmemory and post trauma approaches, the book recognizes the precariousness and variation of memory work done at the memorial through the ways visitors engages with the act of remembrance rather than with its object, namely the history of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust. This engagement explores how visitors present and perform their 'moral career' at the site, whose codes have been shaped by knowledge about and visits in this and other sites of Holocaust remembrance".--

Member of

• Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UK-WkNB

Dewey number

• 940.5318
• 943.088

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies