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Erweiterung des Berlin Museums mit Abteilung jüdisches Museum
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ISBN: 3433024014 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berlin Ernst

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The Memorial Ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum
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ISBN: 1137538317 1137538309 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind’s Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context. Emphasizing how the Holocaust changed our perception of history, memory, witnessing and representation, it develops the notion of ‘memorial ethics’ to explore the Museum’s difference from more conventional post-World War Two commemorative sites. The main focus is on the Museum as an experience of the materiality of trauma which engages the visitor in a performative duty to remember. Arleen Ionescu builds on Levinas’s idea of ‘ethics as optics’ to show how Libeskind’s Museum becomes a testimony to the unpresentable Other. Ionescu also extends the Museum’s experiential dimension by proposing her own subjective walk through Libeskind’s space reimagined as a ‘literary museum’. Featuring reflections on texts by Beckett, Celan, Derrida, Kafka, Blanchot, Wiesel and Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (Celan’s cousin), this virtual tour concludes with a brief account of Libeskind’s analogous ‘healing project’ for Ground Zero.


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Responding to loss : Heideggerian reflections on literature, architecture, and film
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ISBN: 9780823263240 082326324X Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Fordham University Press

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Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. Mugerauer shows how, in the face of what is irrevocably taken away as well as of what continues to be given, the unavoidable task of interpretation is ours alone. Mugerauer examines works in three different forms that powerfully call on us to respond to loss: Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing, Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin, and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire. Explicating these difficult but rich works with reference to the thought of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas, the author helps us to experience the multiple and diverse ways in which all of us are opened to the saturated phenomena of loss, violence, witnessing, and responsibility.


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The Holocaust and representations of Jews : history and identity in the museum.
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ISBN: 9780415597142 9780203808948 9781136672026 9781136672064 9781136672071 9781138789111 Year: 2011 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge


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Responding to Loss
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ISBN: 0823266494 0823263266 0823263274 9780823263264 9780823263271 082326324X 9780823263240 9780823266494 9780823263240 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY

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Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. Mugerauer shows how, in the face of what is irrevocably taken away as well as of what continues to be given, the unavoidable task of interpretation is ours alone. Mugerauer examines works in three different forms that powerfully call on us to respond to loss: Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing, Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin, and Wim Wenders’s film Wings of Desire. Explicating these difficult but rich works with reference to the thought of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas, the author helps us to experience the multiple and diverse ways in which all of us are opened to the saturated phenomena of loss, violence, witnessing, and responsibility.


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Holocaust memory reframed : museums and the challenges of representation
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ISBN: 9780813563237 9780813563244 0813563232 0813563240 0813565251 Year: 2014 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press,

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Holocaust memorials and museums face a difficult task as their staffs strive to commemorate and document horror. On the one hand, the events museums represent are beyond most people's experiences. At the same time they are often portrayed by theologians, artists, and philosophers in ways that are already known by the public. Museum administrators and curators have the challenging role of finding a creative way to present Holocaust exhibits to avoid clichéd or dehumanizing portrayals of victims and their suffering. In Holocaust Memory Reframed, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich examines representations in three museums: Israel's Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Germany's Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She describes a variety of visually striking media, including architecture, photography exhibits, artifact displays, and video installations in order to explain the aesthetic techniques that the museums employ. As she interprets the exhibits, Hansen-Glucklich clarifies how museums communicate Holocaust narratives within the historical and cultural contexts specific to Germany, Israel, and the United States. In Yad Vashem, architect Moshe Safdie developed a narrative suited for Israel, rooted in a redemptive, Zionist story of homecoming to a place of mythic geography and renewal, in contrast to death and suffering in exile. In the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Daniel Libeskind's architecture, broken lines, and voids emphasize absence. Here exhibits communicate a conflicted ideology, torn between the loss of a Jewish past and the country's current multicultural ethos. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presents yet another lens, conveying through its exhibits a sense of sacrifice that is part of the civil values of American democracy, and trying to overcome geographic and temporal distance. One well-know example, the pile of thousands of shoes plundered from concentration camp victims encourages the visitor to bridge the gap between viewer and victim. Hansen-Glucklich explores how each museum's concept of the sacred shapes the design and choreography of visitors' experiences within museum spaces. These spaces are sites of pilgrimage that can in turn lead to rites of passage.

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Museum architecture. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture. --- Memorialization. --- Symbolism in architecture. --- Museum techniques. --- Architecture des musées --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Holocauste (1939-1945), et architecture --- Commémorations --- Symbolisme en architecture --- Muséologie --- Museums. --- Study and teaching. --- Musées --- Etude et enseignement --- Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999- ) --- Yad va-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Sho'ah vela-gevurah. --- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. --- Architecture des musées --- Commémorations --- Muséologie --- Musées --- Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999- ) --- Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture --- Memorialization --- Museum architecture --- Museum techniques --- Symbolism in architecture --- Architectural symbolism --- Signs and symbols in architecture --- Architecture --- Museology --- Museums --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Memorialisation --- Memorials --- Architecture and the Holocaust --- Study and teaching --- Technique --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum --- US Holocaust Memorial Museum --- Holocaust Museum (United States) --- USHMM --- Мемориальный музей Холокоста США --- Memorialʹnyĭ muzeĭ Kholokosta SShA --- Jewish Museum Berlin (1999- ) --- Stiftung Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999- ) --- Jüdisches Museum im Berlin Museum --- יד ושם, רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה. --- Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum --- Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem --- Applied museology --- Museography --- Museum practices --- Museum studies --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945) --- Holocaust museum exhibits.

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