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The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide of European Jewry has become an increasingly vital component in the evolving collective remembrance of the Holocaust. Responding to the tendency to dismiss tourism as commercial, superficial, or voyeuristic, Reynolds insists that we take a closer look at a phenomenon that has global reach, takes many forms, and serves many interests. The book focuses on some of the most prominent sites of mass murder in Europe, and then expands outward to more recent memorial museums. Reynolds provides a historically-informed account of the different forces that have shaped Holocaust tourism since 1945, including Cold War politics, the sudden emergence of the "memory boom" beginning in the 1980s, and the awareness that eyewitnesses to the Holocaust are passing away. Based on his on-site explorations, the contributions from researchers in Holocaust studies and tourism studies, and the observations of tourists themselves, this book reveals how tourism is an important part of efforts to understand and remember the Holocaust, an event that continues to challenge ideals about humanity and our capacity to learn from the past.

Collective memory. --- Dark tourism --- Heritage tourism --- Holocaust memorials. --- Concentration camps --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Memorials --- Cultural tourism --- Tourism --- Black tourism (Dark tourism) --- Grief tourism --- Thanatourism --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Social aspects. --- Historiography. --- Nazi concentration camps --- Concentration camps, Nazi --- Death camps, Nazi --- Extermination camps, Nazi --- Nazi death camps --- Nazi extermination camps --- Internment camps

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"Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old Byzantium and its neighbours' theme with, however, a methodological twist away from the resolutely political and toward the cultural and economic. A second thing that Global Byzantium - as a concept - explicitly endorses is comparative methodology. Global Byzantium needs also to address three further issues: cultural capital, the importance of the local, and the empire's strategic geographical location. Cultural capital: in past decades it was fashionable to define Byzantium as culturally superior to western Christian Europe, and Byzantine influence was a key concept, especially in art historical circles. This concept has been increasingly criticised, and what we now see emerging is a comparative methodology that relies on the concept of competitive sharing', not blind copying but rather competitive appropriation. The importance of the local is equally critical. We need to talk more about what the Byzantines saw when they looked out', and what others saw in Byzantium when they looked in' and to think about how that impacted on our, very post-modern, concepts of globalism. Finally, we need to think about the empire's strategic geographical position: between the fourth and the thirteenth centuries, if anyone was travelling internationally, they had to travel across (or along the coasts of) the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was thus a crucial intermediary, for good or for ill, between Europe, Africa, and Asia - effectively, the glue that held the Christian world together, and it was also a critical transit point between the various Islamic polities and the Christian world." --

Byzantine Empire --- Civilization --- Foreign relations

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Examining ideas, beliefs and practices of identification in the medieval East Roman world.

Identity (Psychology) --- Ideology --- Philosophy --- History --- HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. --- To 1500 --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement.