Table of Contents

The Texture of Memory PART I Germany: The Ambiguity Memory - The Counter-monument: Memory Against Itself in Germany Today; The Sites of Destruction; The Gestapo-Gelande; Austria's Ambivalent Memory. PART 2 Poland: The Ruins of Memory - The Rhetoric of Ruins - Majdanek and Auschwitz; The Biography of a Memorial Icon - The Warsaw Ghetto Monument; Broken Tablets and Jewish Memory in Poland Today. PART 3 Israel: Holocaust, Heroism and National Redemption: Israel's Memorial Landscape: Forests, Monuments, Kibbutzim; Yad Vashem - Israel's Memorial Authority; When a Day Remembers - A Performative History of Yom Hashoah. PART 4 America: Memory and the Politics of Identity - The Plural Faces of Memory in America; Memory and the Politics of Identity - Boston and Washington, DC.

About the Author

James E. Young is associate professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.