The Social Inheritance Of The Holocaust

Download or read book The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust written by A. Reading and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges current thinking on memory by examining the complex ways in which the social inheritance of the Nazi Holocaust is gendered. It considers how the past is handed down in the US, Poland and Britain through historiography, autobiographies, documentary and feature films, memorial sites and museums. It explores the configuration of socially inherited memories about the Holocaust in young people of different cultural backgrounds. Scholarly and accessible, the book provides a groundbreaking approach to understanding the significance of gender in relation to cultural mediations of history.