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This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in collaboration with witnesses and descendants. At the same time, exhibition-makers have come to recognise the degree to which the National Socialist era was experienced materially, through the loss, acquisition, imposition, destruction, and re-purposing of objects. In the decades after 1945, encounters with material culture from the Nazi past continued, both within the family and in the public sphere. In analysing how these material engagements are explored in the museum, the book not only illuminates a key aspect of German and Austrian cultural memory but contributes to wider debates about relationships between the human and object worlds.
"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
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Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe's Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to their former homes and resuming their scholarly work there was no longer viable, they sought to address their profound sense of loss by continuing their work, under radically different circumstances, to document the European Jewish lives, place...
How was the re-emerging Jewish religious practice after 1945 shaped by traditions before the Shoah? To what extent was it influenced by new inspirations through migration and new cultural contacts? By analysing objects like prayer books, musical instruments, Torah scrolls, audio documents and prayer rooms, this volume shows how the post-war communities created new Jewish musical, architectural and artistic forms while abiding by the tradition. This peer-reviewed volume presents contributions to the conference „Jewish communities in Germany in Transition", held in July 2021, as well as the results of a related research project carried out by two university institutions and two museums: the ...
Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which states (especially imperialist states) use museums to showcase looted artefacts, to document their geographic expansion, to present themselves as the guardians of national treasure, and to educate citizens and subjects. At the same time, a great deal of attention has been paid to reshaping national histories and values in the wake of the collapse of the Communist bloc and the emergence of the European Union. (Re)Visualizing National History considers the wave of monument and museum building in Europe as part of an attempt to forge consensus in politic...
While scholars recognize both museums and films as sites where historical knowledge and cultural memory are created, the convergence between their methods of constructing the past has only recently been acknowledged. The essays in Exhibiting the German Past examine a range of films, museums, and experiences which blend the two, considering how authentic objects and cinematic techniques are increasingly used in similar ways by both visual media and museums. This is the first collection to focus on the museum–film connection in German-language culture and the first to approach the issue using the concept of “musealization,” a process that, because it engages the cultural destruction wrought by modernization, offers new means of constructing historical knowledge and shaping collective memory within and beyond the museum’s walls. Featuring a wide range of valuable case studies, Exhibiting the German Past offers a unique perspective on the developing relationship between museums and visual media.
After the Shoah, Jewish survivors actively took control of their destiny. Despite catastrophic and hostile circumstances, they built networks and communities, fought for justice, and documented Nazi crimes. The essays, illustrations, and portraits of people and places contained in this volume are informed by a pan-European perspective. The book accompanies the first special exhibition at the re-opened Jewish Museum in Frankfurt. German edition
Beobachtungskriteriendiagnostische FragestellungenFormulierungshilfenFördermaßnahmen zu den Förderschwerpunkten Lernen (L), emotionale und soziale Entwicklung (esE), körperliche und motorische Entwicklung (kmE) Inklusion bedeutet für die Schule, dass sich die Unterrichtsangebote an den Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten jeder Schülerin und jedes Schülers orientieren und deren Bedürfnissen - unabhängig von ihren individuellen Voraussetzungen - Rechnung tragen. Dieser Leitfaden bietet die Möglichkeiten zur differenzierten Wahrnehmung und Beschreibung von Schülerinnen und Schülern. Speziell für den Unterstützungsbedarf im Bereich des Lernens, der körperlichen und motorischen Entwicklung sowie der sozialen und emotionalen Entwicklung werden einerseits Formulierungsangebote gemacht und andererseits auch mögliche Maßnahmen der Unterstützung im Lernprozess dargestellt. In der Praxis bewährt sich der Leitfaden zur Erstellung differenzierter und aussagekräftiger pädagogischer Gutachten bzw. Stellungnahmen. Für die vierte Neuauflage wurden insbesondere mit Blick auf die Schülerschaft aus dem Autismus-Spektrum Ergänzungen vorgenommen.
Ausgehend von einer deutsch-deutschen Perspektive betrachtet der Sammelband die Spezifika jüdischen Lebens im geteilten Deutschland sowie in weiteren ausgewählten europäischen Ländern. Im Fokus stehen Fragen nach der Wiederherstellung und sozialen Zusammensetzung jüdischer Gemeinden, den Beziehungen zur Mehrheitsgesellschaft sowie dem jüdischen politischen wie kulturellen Leben. Darüber hinaus widmet sich das Buch den Formen und Akteuren der Auseinandersetzung mit der Shoah sowie dem Antisemitismus und der antijüdischen Gewalt in den europäischen Nachkriegsgesellschaften. In unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten werden so die vielfältigen Herausforderungen jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland und Europa nach der Shoah beleuchtet und zudem die Frage diskutiert, wie jüdische Geschichte nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg heute museal aufbereitet und ausgestellt werden kann.