Preserving memory: the struggle to create America's Holocaust Museum

ǂt Preface: Violence and the American Landscape

ǂt Locating Holocaust Memory in American Culture

ǂt The Decision to Remember

ǂt Who Owns the Memory? The Politics of Representation: The President's Commission on the Holocaust

ǂt Who Owns the Memory? The Politics of Representation: The United States Holocaust Memorial Council

ǂt Summary Reflections: The Volatility of Holocaust Memory

ǂt The Site of Holocaust Memory

ǂt Building Holocaust Memory

ǂt Embryonic Thoughts: The Commission's Museum

ǂt Beginnings: 1980-87

ǂt The End of the Wiesel Era and Beyond

ǂt Jeshajahu "Shaike" Weinberg and the Changing Nature of the Permanent Exhibition

ǂt Interior Space: The Mood of Memory

ǂt Personalizing the Story: Faces and Artifacts

ǂt Enduring Issues: Shaping the Boundaries of Memory

ǂt The Boundaries of Horror

ǂt The Boundaries of Representation: The Perpetrators

ǂt The Boundaries of Representation: An Artifact Out of Place

ǂt The Boundaries of Interpretation: Contested Issues and the Voice of the Exhibition

ǂt The Boundaries of Inclusion: Armenians and Gypsies

ǂt The Center and the Periphery of Holocaust Memory

ǂt Endings: The Lure of Redemption

ǂt Mobilizing Holocaust Memory

ǂt Burdensome Memory

ǂt Treacherous Memory

ǂt Murderous Memory

ǂt Hopeful Memory.

Preface : Violence and the American Landscape

Introduction

Ch.1 - The Decision to Remember

Who Owns the Memory? The Politics of Representation: The President’s Commission on the Holocaust

Who Owns the Memory? The Politics of Representation: The United States Holocaust Memorial Council

Summary Reflections: The Volatility of Holocaust Memory

Ch.2 - The Site of Holocaust Memory

Building Holocaust Memory

Ch.3 - Embryonic Thoughts: The Commission’s Museum 109 Beginnings: 1980—87

The End of the Wiesel Era and Beyond Jeshajahu “ Shaike” Weinberg and the Changing Nature of the Permanent Exhibition

Ch.4 - Interior Space: The Mood of Memory Personalizing the Story: Faces and Artifacts Enduring Issues: Shaping the Boundaries of Memory The Boundaries of Horror The Boundaries of Representation: The Perpetrators The Boundaries of Representation: An Artifact Out of Place The Boundaries of Interpretation: Contested Issues and the Voice of the Exhibition The Boundaries of Inclusion: Armenians and Gypsies The Center and the Periphery of Holocaust Memory Endings: The Lure of Redemption

Conclusion - Mobilizing Holocaust Memory Burdensome Memory Treacherous Memory Murderous Memory Hopeful Memory

Notes

Index.