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Journal of Jewish Identities, 2013
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In the mid-1940s, a little girl on the South Side of Chicago really, really wanted a Christmas tree. This commonplace request was complicated by just one thing: the girl, like most of her neighbors, was Jewish.
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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In the mid-1940s, a little girl on the South Side of Chicago really, really wanted a Christmas tree. This commonplace request was complicated by just one thing: the girl, like most of her neighbors, was Jewish.
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Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2012
This essay considers the rhetoric of space in a rapidly transforming culture. Using Michel Foucault's concept of “heterotopias” to understand the rhetorical power of a building's disposition, it is argued that the Jewish Museum Berlin contains two heterotopias, one within the other.
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This essay considers the rhetoric of space in a rapidly transforming culture. Using Michel Foucault's concept of “heterotopias” to understand the rhetorical power of a building's disposition, it is argued that the Jewish Museum Berlin contains two heterotopias, one within the other.
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Responses to Silence: The Jewish Museums in Berlin and Warsaw
Polin: Studies in Polish JewryThis chapter addresses the topic of memory cultures in Germany and Poland through a comparative analysis of the Jewish museums in Berlin and Warsaw. It discusses both museums as responses to the ‘silence of death’, a theme introduced through Paul Celan’s poetic reflections on language, silence, and death. Specifically, the chapter examines the question
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Staging a Vanished Community: Daniel Libeskind’s Scenography in the Berlin Jewish Museum
2009When Daniel Libeskind’s Judisches Museum (Jewish Museum) opened in Berlin in 1999, it was the result of a ten-year battle between two competing visions of community: on the one hand, Berlin’s political elite and city officials who thought of the project as a supplement to the existing Berlin Museum and who gave the project the insensitive title ...
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Absence and Presence: Interpreting Moral Exclusion in the Jewish Museum Berlin
2011This chapter describes research conducted in a museum that interprets injustice that occurred more than seven decades ago. From the vantage of the present, it looks back on the Third Reich, a period when the National Socialist Party (“Nazis”) gained adherents, power, and sought to exterminate Jews and other groups they denigrated as “life unworthy of ...
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2012
Author Andreas Huyssen recognizes a contemporary fascination with "memory politics," while Ruth Ellen Gruber finds that a growing interest in "things Jewish" has spread throughout Europe in the recent past. Both of these claims help to promote the need and desire for greater Holocaust commemoration, especially in the city of Berlin where the Nazi ...
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Author Andreas Huyssen recognizes a contemporary fascination with "memory politics," while Ruth Ellen Gruber finds that a growing interest in "things Jewish" has spread throughout Europe in the recent past. Both of these claims help to promote the need and desire for greater Holocaust commemoration, especially in the city of Berlin where the Nazi ...
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Between the Lines: The Jewish Museum, Berlin
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