Visitors to the House of Memory (eBook)

Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin

Victoria Bishop Kendzia (Autor)

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2017
174 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-640-9 (ISBN)

Infos

As one of the most visited museums in Germany's capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners experience the Museum. How do modern students relate to the museum's evocative architecture, its cultural-political context, and its narrative of Jewish history? By accompanying a range of high school history students before, during, and after their visits to the museum, this book offers an illuminating exploration of political education, affect, remembrance, and belonging.

Autor

Victoria Bishop Kendzia is a teaching fellow at Humboldt University, Berlin. Her publications include “‘Jewish’ Ethnic Options in Germany between Attribution and Choice: Auto-Ethnographical Reflections at the Jewish Museum Berlin” in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. She completed her doctorate at Humboldt’s Institute of European Ethnology

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Focus of the Research and Methodological Approach: The Research Question
Chapter 2. Memory, Political Education and the Positioning of the JMB: From Memory to Remembrance to Past Presencing
Chapter 3. Betroffenheit: The Museum Visit as an Embodied Memorial Experience
Chapter 4. The Visit as a Predominantly “Touristic” Activity
Chapter 5. Between Engagement, Playful Appropriation, and Exclusion
Chapter 6. Concluding Reflections: From the Museum as a Field Site to a More Inclusive Culture of Memory

Afterword
Appendix

Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.12.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Museums and Collections
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Affect • architectural appreciation • berlin germany • cultural-political context • discussion books • Ethnic Diversity • evocative architecture • Genocide • German identity • German-Jewish History • Growing Up • History • Holocaust • house of memory • Identity • Museum Studies • Political education • relating to history • religious diversity • Remembrance • revolutionaries • Travel Guide • wwii history
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-640-1 / 1785336401
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-640-9 / 9781785336409