Holocaust Icons : Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stier, Oren Baruch, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Signs and symbols > Social aspects.
Semiotics > Social aspects.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Historiography.
Collective memory.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Memoire collective.
Commemorations > Aspect social.
Signes et symboles > Aspect social.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Historiographie.
Memorialization > Social aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.--publisher's website.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813574059

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