Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory
The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocau...
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Zusammenfassung: | The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust Icons probes the history and memory of four of these symbolic relics left in the Holocaust’s wake. Jewish studies scholar Oren Stier offers in this volume new insight into symbols and the symbol-making process, as he traces the lives and afterlives of certain remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing impact. Stier focuses in particular on four icons: the railway cars that carried Jews to their deaths, symbolizing the mechanics of murder; the Arbeit Macht Frei ("work makes you free") sign over the entrance to Auschwitz, pointing to the insidious logic of the camp system; the number six million that represents an approximation of the number of Jews killed as well as mass murder more generally; and the persona of Anne Frank, associated with victimization. Stier shows how and why these icons—an object, a phrase, a number, and a person—have come to stand in for the Holocaust: where they came from and how they have been used and reproduced; how they are presently at risk from a variety of threats such as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of the Shoah. In illuminating these icons of the Holocaust, Stier offers valuable new perspective on one of the defining events of the twentieth century. He helps readers understand not only the Holocaust but also the profound nature of historical memory itself |
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Beschreibung: | 1 online resource 41 photographs |
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spelling | Stier, Oren Baruch Verfasser aut Holocaust Icons Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory Oren Baruch Stier New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2015] © 2015 1 online resource 41 photographs txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019) The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust Icons probes the history and memory of four of these symbolic relics left in the Holocaust’s wake. Jewish studies scholar Oren Stier offers in this volume new insight into symbols and the symbol-making process, as he traces the lives and afterlives of certain remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing impact. Stier focuses in particular on four icons: the railway cars that carried Jews to their deaths, symbolizing the mechanics of murder; the Arbeit Macht Frei ("work makes you free") sign over the entrance to Auschwitz, pointing to the insidious logic of the camp system; the number six million that represents an approximation of the number of Jews killed as well as mass murder more generally; and the persona of Anne Frank, associated with victimization. Stier shows how and why these icons—an object, a phrase, a number, and a person—have come to stand in for the Holocaust: where they came from and how they have been used and reproduced; how they are presently at risk from a variety of threats such as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of the Shoah. In illuminating these icons of the Holocaust, Stier offers valuable new perspective on one of the defining events of the twentieth century. He helps readers understand not only the Holocaust but also the profound nature of historical memory itself In English Frank, Anne 1929-1945 (DE-588)118534734 gnd rswk-swf HISTORY / General bisacsh Collective memory Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence Memorialization Social aspects Semiotics Social aspects Signs and symbols Social aspects Kollektives Gedächtnis (DE-588)4200793-8 gnd rswk-swf Symbol (DE-588)4058716-2 gnd rswk-swf Judenvernichtung (DE-588)4073091-8 gnd rswk-swf Geschichtsschreibung (DE-588)4020531-9 gnd rswk-swf Judenvernichtung (DE-588)4073091-8 s Symbol (DE-588)4058716-2 s Kollektives Gedächtnis (DE-588)4200793-8 s Geschichtsschreibung (DE-588)4020531-9 s 1\p DE-604 Frank, Anne 1929-1945 (DE-588)118534734 p 2\p DE-604 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813574059 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
spellingShingle | Stier, Oren Baruch Holocaust Icons Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory Frank, Anne 1929-1945 (DE-588)118534734 gnd HISTORY / General bisacsh Collective memory Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence Memorialization Social aspects Semiotics Social aspects Signs and symbols Social aspects Kollektives Gedächtnis (DE-588)4200793-8 gnd Symbol (DE-588)4058716-2 gnd Judenvernichtung (DE-588)4073091-8 gnd Geschichtsschreibung (DE-588)4020531-9 gnd |
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title | Holocaust Icons Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory |
title_auth | Holocaust Icons Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory |
title_exact_search | Holocaust Icons Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory |
title_full | Holocaust Icons Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory Oren Baruch Stier |
title_fullStr | Holocaust Icons Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory Oren Baruch Stier |
title_full_unstemmed | Holocaust Icons Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory Oren Baruch Stier |
title_short | Holocaust Icons |
title_sort | holocaust icons symbolizing the shoah in history and memory |
title_sub | Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory |
topic | Frank, Anne 1929-1945 (DE-588)118534734 gnd HISTORY / General bisacsh Collective memory Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence Memorialization Social aspects Semiotics Social aspects Signs and symbols Social aspects Kollektives Gedächtnis (DE-588)4200793-8 gnd Symbol (DE-588)4058716-2 gnd Judenvernichtung (DE-588)4073091-8 gnd Geschichtsschreibung (DE-588)4020531-9 gnd |
topic_facet | Frank, Anne 1929-1945 HISTORY / General Collective memory Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence Memorialization Social aspects Semiotics Social aspects Signs and symbols Social aspects Kollektives Gedächtnis Symbol Judenvernichtung Geschichtsschreibung |
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