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paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: large PAPERBACK, attractive copy, near fine BUT corners are lightly bumped and dinged, binding and text strong and bright. YOUNG, JAMES E. The texture of memory: Holocaust memorials and meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, later printing number line ending in 7, xvii, 398pp., . Examines Holcaust monuments and museums in Europe, Israel, and America, exploring how every nation remembers the Holocaust according to its own traditions, ideals, and experiences, and how these memorials reflect their place. - CONTENTS: Introduction : The texture of memory -- pt. 1. Germany : the ambiguity of memory. The countermonument : memory against itself -- The sites of destruction -- The Gestapo-Gelände : topography of unfinished memory -- Austria's ambivalent memory -- pt. 2. Poland : the ruins of memory. The rhetoric of ruins : the memorial camps at Majdanek and Auschwitz -- The biography of a memorial icon : Nathan Rapoport's Warsaw Ghetto Monument -- Broken tablets and Jewish memory in Poland -- pt. 3. Israel : Holocaust, heroism, and national redemption. Israel's memorial landscape ; forests, monuments, and kibbutzim -- Yad Vashem : Israel's memorial authority -- When a day remembers : a performative history of Yom Hashoah -- pt. 4. America : memory and the politics of identity. The plural faces of Holocaust memory in America -- Memory and the politics of identity : Boston and Washington, D.C. 9780300059915 ISBN 0300059914.…