Holocaust remembrance in Australian Jewish communities, 1945-2000 /
An Australian profile to modern scholarship about Holocaust remembrance. the author examines three public forms: Holocaust day commemorations, Holocaust education and Holocaust museums in the largest communities of Australia.
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Crawley, W.A. :
University of Western Australia Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the Holocaust in Australian Jewish consciousness
- pt. 1.
- Yom hashoah commemorations
- ch. 1.
- Constructing an environment of memory
- Date of commemorations
- Scope of commemorations
- Location and nature of commemorations
- Rituals of commemorations
- ch. 2.
- The evolving format of commemorations
- Youth or Yiddish
- Youth participation and wider Jewish community attendance
- Youth participation : the survivors' perspective
- ch. 3.
- The evolving boundaries of memory
- Commemoration of armed resistance
- Commemoration of spiritual resistance
- Absent memories
- ch. 4.
- The messages of memory
- Jewish lessons and messages
- The absence of universal lessons
- pt. 2.
- Holocaust education in Jewish day schools
- ch. 5.
- From commemoration to formal education
- Early Jewish studies staffing and curriculum
- Formal, compulsory Holocaust study
- Influences on the expansion of formal Holocaust teaching
- ch. 6.
- To know, remember and perpetuate memory of the Holocaust
- Context of Holocaust study units
- Focus of Holocaust study units
- Motives behind Holocaust education
- pt. 3.
- Jewish Holocaust museums
- ch. 7.
- An 'open grave' and a 'beautiful monument'
- Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre
- Holocaust Institute of WA
- Sydney Jewish Museum : of Australian Jewish History and the Holocaust
- Initial Jewish community apathy towards the museums
- The future of the museums
- ch. 8. 'The
- Holocaust must not be manipulated'
- Visual representations fo the Holocaust
- Jewish identity and the Holocaust
- Texts of the permanent exhibitions : focus and absences
- Representations of non-Jewish victims of Nazism
- Universal humanist lessons of the Holocaust
- Concluding displays and meanings
- Australianization of the Holocaust
- Conclusion : the future of remembrance.