Research Catalog

Title

The memory of the Shoah in Jewish museums : a comparative analysis of the role of the Shoah in the Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam and the Jewish Museum Berlin / Natalia Kolbar.

Author

Kolbar, Natalia.

Publication

Amsterdam : Het Menasseh ben Israel Instituut, 2016.

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Additional Authors

Menasseh ben Israel Instituut voor joodse sociaal-wetenschappelijke en cultuurhistorische studies, issuing body.

Description

98 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

Jewish museums cannot avoid the question of the place of the Holocaust in their presentations. When presenting the Holocaust, they are confronted with a number of challenges that ultimately define their purpose as Jewish museums. In this publication, Natalia Kolbar explores the role of the Shoah in these institutions and the implications for the presentation and interpretation of Jewish history, culture and religion, by comparing the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam with the Jewish Museum in Berlin. The author examines their architecture, narrative, the manner they balance education and commemoration and how they place and convey Jewish identity in their particular Dutch and German contexts.

Series Statement

Menasseh ben Israel Instituut studies ; XI, 2016

Uniform Title

Menasseh ben Israel Instituut studies ; no. XI, 2016.

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Museums
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture
• Jewish museums > Amsterdam
• Jewish museums > Berlin
• Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999- )

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-98).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9789082265538
• 9082265532

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library