Introduction: Framing the Holocaust: Contemporary Visions
I. GEOGRAPHIES OF THE HEART: PLACES/SPACES
OF REMEMBRANCE
1. Archiving an Architecture of the Heart
2. Haunted by Memory: American Jewish Transformations
3. A House for an Uninhabitable Memory (The Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University)
II. ISRAEL AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
4. The Return of the Repressed
5. Racism and Ethics: Constructing Alternative History
6. “Don’t Touch My Holocaust”—Analyzing the Barometer of Responses: Israeli Artists Challenge the Holocaust Taboo
III. TRANSGRESSING TABOOS
7. Holocaust Toys: Pedagogy of Remembrance through Play
8. The Nazi Occupation of the “White Cube”: Piotr Uklan´ski’s The Nazis and Rudolf Herz’s Zugzwang
9. On Sanctifying the Holocaust: An Anti-Theological Treatise
IV. CURATING MEMORY
10. Holocaust Icons: The Media of Memory
11. Sense and/or Sensation: The Role of the Body in Holocaust Pedagogy Artists’ Works
A selection of works by artists Alice Lok Cahana, Judy Chicago,
Debbie Teicholz, and Mindy Weisel, who participated in the
Berman Center’s conference, “Representing the Holocaust:
Practices, Products, Projections.”
About the Artists
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index