Holocaust icons : symbolizing the Shoah in history and memory / Oren Baruch Stier.

Author/creator Stier, Oren Baruch, 1966- author.
Format Book
PublicationNew Brunswick, New Jersey, and London : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionxviii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
Semiotics--Social aspects.
Signs and symbols--Social aspects.
Memorialization--Social aspects.
Collective memory.

Contents Holocaust symbols: the shapes of memory -- Different trains: Holocaust artifacts and the ideologies of remembrance -- Thresholds of initiation: Arbeit macht frei -- From innocence to experience: an icon comes of age -- Anne Frank as a literary icon ; Anne Frank as visual icon -- The Holocaust as an iconic number: six million -- Looking again at Holocaust icons.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.
LCCN 2014046190
ISBN9780813574035 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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