The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age
- ISBN-10
- 1592132766
- ISBN-13
- 9781592132768
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Authors
- Daniel Levy, Natan Sznaider
Description
Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider examine the forms that collective memory take in the age of globalisation. They explore how the Holocaust has been remembered in Germany, Israel and the US over the past 50 years and demonstrate how this event has become detached from its precise context.
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