Yad Vashem : the challenge of shaping a Holocaust remembrance site, 1942-1976 / Doron Bar ; translated by Deena Glickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bar, Doron, 1965- author.

Contributor:

Glickman, Deena, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah.

Holocaust memorials--Law and legislation.

Holocaust memorials.

Israel.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

In this fascinating book, the planning and building of Yad Vashem, Israel's central and most important institution for commemorating the Holocaust, merits an outstanding in-depth account. Following the development of Yad Vashem since 1942, when the idea to commemorate the Holocaust in Eretz-Israel was raised for the first time, the narrative continues until the inauguration of Nathan Rapoport's Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in 1976. The prolonged and complicated planning process of Yad Vashem's various monuments reveals the debates, failures and achievements involved in commemorating the Holocaust. In reading this thought-provoking description, one learns how Israel's leaders aspired both to fulfill a moral debt towards the victims of the Holocaust a well as to make Yad Vashem an exclusive center of Holocaust commemoration both in the Jewish world and beyond.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1 Yad Vashem until the End of 1948

Chapter 2 From Statehood until the Enactment of the Yad Vashem Law in August 1953

Chapter 3 Building the Mount of Remembrance: First Steps

Chapter 4 The Path to the Hall of Remembrance’s Construction

Chapter 5 The Mount of Remembrance: A New Look

Conclusion The Road to Remembrance

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-072148-1