Seizing the day: Why Britain will benefit from Holocaust memorial day

Patterns of Prejudice

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 61-66

  Cesarani, David ^a  

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Author keywords

Commemoration; Holocaust; Memorial day; Public memory; Remembrance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034344778     PISSN: 0031322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/003132200128811008     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (London: Verso 2000); Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (New York: Houghton Mifflin 1999), published in Britain in 2000 as The Holocaust and Collective Memory: The American Experience.
2. Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (London: Verso 2000); Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (New York: Houghton Mifflin 1999), published in Britain in 2000 as The Holocaust and Collective Memory: The American Experience.
3. Tim Cole, Images of the Holocaust (London: Duckworth 1999).
4. For another critical case-study, see Steven Cooke, 'Beth Shalom: re-thinking history and memory', Journal of Holocaust Education, vol. 8, no. 1, 1999, 21-41.
5. For aspects of the debate, see the special issue of Journal of Holocaust Education, vol. 7, no. 3, 1998.
6. Figures provided by Suzanne Bardgett, head of the IWM Holocaust Exhibition Project Office, 25 July 2000.
7. Comments supplied by Suzanne Bardgett, 14 June 2000. Of course, there have been critics (such as Rebecca Abrams, New Statesman, 17 July 2000) who protest that the exhibition is voyeuristic and grotesque.
8. See, for example, the BBC television series, and accompanying book by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig, Finest Hour (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1999).
9. David Cesarani, 'Should Britain have a national Holocaust museum?', Journal of Holocaust Education, vol. 7, no. 3, 1998, 19-20.
10. Alan S. Rosenbaum (ed.), Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide (Boulder, CO: Westview 1996).
11. John Bodnar, Remaking America. Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1992).
12. For another study of the boisterous and unpredictable character of public memory, see Caroline Wiedmer, The Claims of Memory. Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1999).
13. See, for example, Mark Levene, 'A moving target, the usual suspects and (maybe) a smoking gun: the problem of pinning blame in modern genocide', Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 33, no. 4, 1999, 3-24.