{"product_id":"holocaust-icons-symbolizing-the-shoah-in-history-and-memory-paperback-softback-9780813574028","title":"Holocaust Icons; Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813574028","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHolocaust Icons\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSymbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOren Baruch Stier (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813574028\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 41 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Stier's work is stimulating in its erudition, especially its critical eclecticism.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Jewish Book Council) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This thoughtful, meticulous, and original study constitutes an account of the shaping of historical memory and an illustrative model of the methodology for such processes.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Stier has certainly crafted an important and incisive work … Indeed, he succeeds remarkably in his overarching goal of prompting the reader to reflect very deeply.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Shofar) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Stier offers an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how and in what ways memory becomes history, focusing on the Shoah. Great for students, scholars, and lay audiences.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Laura Levitt (Temple University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Oren Stier has thought deeply, sensitively, and intelligently about the Holocaust and its memorialization. His profound exploration is shaped by literature and history, art and theology, mythology and cultural history. His writing is unfailingly interesting.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Michael Berenbaum (professor of Jewish studies, American Jewish University in Los Angeles) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eStier’s book\u003ci\u003e... \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a significant new resource for navigating a difficult but vital topic\"\u003c\/div\u003e - David Tollerton (Reading Religion)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, \u003ci\u003eHolocaust Icons \u003c\/i\u003eprobes the history and memory of four of these symbolic relics left in the Holocaust’s wake.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Jewish studies scholar Oren Stier offers in this volume new insight into symbols and the symbol-making process, as he traces the lives and afterlives of certain remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing impact. Stier focuses in particular on four icons: the railway cars that carried Jews to their deaths, symbolizing the mechanics of murder; the Arbeit Macht Frei (“work makes you free”) sign over the entrance to Auschwitz, pointing to the insidious logic of the camp system; the number six million that represents an approximation of the number of Jews killed as well as mass murder more generally; and the persona of Anne Frank, associated with victimization. Stier shows how and why these icons-an object, a phrase, a number, and a person-have come to stand in for the Holocaust: where they came from and how they have been used and reproduced; how they are presently at risk from a variety of threats such as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of the Shoah.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In illuminating these icons of the Holocaust, Stier offers valuable new perspective on one of the defining events of the twentieth century. He helps readers understand not only the Holocaust but also the profound nature of historical memory itself.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction     Holocaust Symbols: The Shapes of Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1          Different Trains: Holocaust Artifacts and the Ideologies of Remembrance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2          Thresholds of Initiation: “Arbeit Macht Frei”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3          From Innocence to Experience: An Icon Comes of Age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne Frank as a Literary Icon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne Frank as Visual Icon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4          The Holocaust as an Iconic Number: Six Million\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion      Looking Again at Holocaust Icons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559353119000,"sku":"9780813574028","price":30.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/holocaust-icons-symbolizing-the-shoah-in-history-and-memory-paperback-softback-9780813574028","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}