Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Memory and Imagination in the Post-Witness Era....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
List Mania in Holocaust Commemoration....Pages 11-27
Acts of Remembering in the Work of Esther Shalev-Gerz — From Embodied to Mediated Memory....Pages 28-43
Countermonuments as Spaces for Deep Memory....Pages 44-52
Sites that Matter: Current Developments of Urban Holocaust Commemoration in Berlin and Munich....Pages 53-72
Contemporary Holocaust Memorials in Berlin: On the Borders of the Sacred and the Profane....Pages 73-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Holocaust Tourism: The Strange yet Familiar/the Familiar yet Strange....Pages 93-106
To Go or Not to Go? Reflections on the Iconic Status of Auschwitz, its Increasing Distance and Prevailing Urgency....Pages 107-131
Holocaust Zombies: Mourning and Memory in Polish Contemporary Culture....Pages 132-148
‘A Picnic Underpinned with Unease’: Spring in Warsaw and New Genre Polish-Jewish Memory Work....Pages 149-162
The Limits of Forgiveness and Postmodern Art....Pages 163-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Auschwitz, Adorno and the Ambivalence of Representation: The Holocaust as a Point of Reference in Contemporary Literature....Pages 183-197
Questions of (Re) Presentation in Uwe Boll’s Auschwitz (2011)....Pages 198-213
‘Ordinary Women’ as Perpetrators in European Holocaust Films....Pages 214-230
Real Imagination? Holocaust Comics in Europe....Pages 231-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Austria’s Post-Holocaust Jewish Community: A Subaltern Counterpublic between the Ethics and Morality of Memory....Pages 253-271
Cosmopolitan Memory in a National Context: The Case of the ‘Living History Forum’....Pages 272-287
Holocaust Remembrance as ‘Civil Religion’: The Case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000)....Pages 288-304
Back Matter....Pages 305-309