Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and MemoryOren Baruch Stier
Oren Baruch Stier's recent work is a masterful contribution to scholarship on Holocaust memory, theoretically sophisticated yet accessible to non-experts. The volume features chapters on four Holocaust icons: railroad cars, the “Arbeit macht frei” phrase/sign, Anne Frank, and “the six million.”...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 303-305 |
| Review of: | Holocaust icons (New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015) (Langenbacher, Eric)
Holocaust icons (New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015) (Langenbacher, Eric) |
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| Summary: | Oren Baruch Stier's recent work is a masterful contribution to scholarship on Holocaust memory, theoretically sophisticated yet accessible to non-experts. The volume features chapters on four Holocaust icons: railroad cars, the “Arbeit macht frei” phrase/sign, Anne Frank, and “the six million.” Each of these chapters is empirically rich and interpretatively innovative. Stier looks at the history of each icon and its past referents, as well as of contemporary appropriation in memory work and popular culture., Stier starts with conceptual and theoretical considerations, noting that “the Holocaust bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of powerful symbols” (p. 2). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcx028 |