The Holocaust and the Museum World in Britain: A study of ethnography

Immigrants and Minorities

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 12-40

  Kushner, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; MUSEUM; NATIONAL IDENTITY; RACISM;

EID: 0038685664     PISSN: 02619288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2002.9975029     Document Type: Article

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5. Bryan Cheyette, 'Neither Black Nor White: The Figure of "the Jew" in Imperial British Literature', in Linda Nochin and Tamar Garb (eds.), The Jew in the Text: Modernity and the Construction of Identity (London, 1995), pp.31, 41.
6. See, for example, the work Paul Gilroy, especially his Between Camps: Race, Identity and Nationalism at the End of the Colour Line (London, 2000).
7. See also Tony Kushner, 'Antisemitism', in David Goldberg and John Solomos (eds), A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies (Malden, MA, 2002), pp.64-72.
8. The Enemy in Our Midst: Germans in Britain during the First World War (Oxford, 1991).
9. see the 'Everyman' documentary 'Two World Wars and One World Cup', BBC 1, 25 April 1993.
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12. see Colin Holmes, A Tolerant Country: Immigrants, Refugees and Minorities in Britain (London, 1991).
13. Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (London, 1994 [orig. 1992]), p.368.
14. Julie Burchill, 'Thinking the Wurst', The Guardian, 22 Sept. 2001.
15. See Margaret Kertesz, 'The Enemy: British Images of the German People during the Second World War' (unpublished Ph.D., University of Sussex, 1992), p.175
16. In George Gallup (ed.), The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain 1937-1975, Vol.1 1937-1964 (New York, 1976), p.82.
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18. See Imperial War Museum, The Holocaust: The Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum (London, 2000)
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20. Imperial War Museum, The New Imperial War Museum (London, 1992).
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22. See Geoff Hurd (ed.), National Fictions: World War Two in British Films and Television (London, 1984).
23. Tony Kushner, "Wrong War Mate" Fifty Years After the Holocaust and the Second World War', Patterns of Prejudice, Vol.29, Nos.2 and 3 (1995), pp.3-13.
24. Imperial War Museum, The Relief of Belsen (London, 1991).
25. See also Joanne Reilly et al. (eds.), Belsen in History and Memory (London, 1997), pp.12-13, 197-8
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32. See Edward Linenthal, Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (New York, 1995), pp.1-2, 193-4;
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34. Philip Gourevitch, 'Nightmare on 15th Street', The Guardian, 4 Dec. 1999.
35. See Tony Kushner, The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination: A Social and Cultural History (Oxford, 1994), Ch.7.
36. Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps (Bloomington, IN, 1987).
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48. See Suzanne Bardgett, 'Man's Inhumanity to Man: A New Museum within the Imperial War Museum' (unpublished proposal, May 1995).
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55. Julian Spalding, The Poetic Museum: Reviving Historic Collections (London, 2002).
56. Suzanne Bardgett, 'The Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum', News of Museums of History (forthcoming), talks of the 'ironic situation' of the acquisition of distressing artefacts being 'a source of professional satisfaction'.
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73. see Marcus Wood's superb Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America 1780-1865 (Manchester, 2000).
74. James Allen et al., Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (Santa Fe, NM, 2000).
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76. See, for example, Sue Vice, Holocaust Fiction (London, 2000), Ch.2 and esp. p.66
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88. Angus Calder, The Myth of the Blitz (London, 1991).
89. Tony Kushner and Katharine Knox, Refugees in an Age of Genocide: Global, National and Local Perspectives during the Twentieth Century (London, 1999), Ch.6.
90. David van Kevren, 'Museums and Ideology: Augustus Pitt-Rivers, Anthropological Museums and Social Change in Britain', Victorian Studies, Vol.28, No.1 (Autumn 1984), pp.171-89, esp. 175-6 and 183-4