Committed to Memory

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"This book offers a close and critical analysis of a range of cultural activities that mediate the Holocaust for a public increasingly distant from the events of World War II. Oren Baruch Stier argues that the manner in which those events are committed to memory, coupled with the fervent dedication to memory exhibited by many people and institutions, produces distinct memorial mediations of the Shoah." "In the end, Stier asks what role forgetting can and does play in the memorial landscape, demonstrating how critical attention to our memorial investments, and to the mechanics and media of memory's construction and transmission, can uncover what is both gained and lost in these commitments."--Jacket.

subjects: Historiography,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures,  Geschichtsschreibung,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature,  Mediation,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures,  Judenvernichtung,  Memory,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature,  Holocaust memorials,  Kultur,  Kollektives Gedächtnis,  Influence,  Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.),  Medien,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)