TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stier,Oren Baruch
TI  - Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory 
SN  - 9780813574035
AV  - D804.3 .S793 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Influence
KW  - Memorialization
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Signs and symbols
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - history, holocaust, world war two, art, art history, late 19th century, 1945, religion, judaism, icon, shoah, jewish studies, music, architecture, human rights, american studies, jew, relic, symbols, railway car, murder, arbeit macht frei, auschwitz, concentration camp, six million, mass murder, anne frank, victimization, object, phrase, number, person, commodification
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust Icons probes the history and memory of four of these symbolic relics left in the Holocaust's wake. Jewish studies scholar Oren Stier offers in this volume new insight into symbols and the symbol-making process, as he traces the lives and afterlives of certain remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing impact. Stier focuses in particular on four icons: the railway cars that carried Jews to their deaths, symbolizing the mechanics of murder; the Arbeit Macht Frei ("work makes you free") sign over the entrance to Auschwitz, pointing to the insidious logic of the camp system; the number six million that represents an approximation of the number of Jews killed as well as mass murder more generally; and the persona of Anne Frank, associated with victimization. Stier shows how and why these icons-an object, a phrase, a number, and a person-have come to stand in for the Holocaust: where they came from and how they have been used and reproduced; how they are presently at risk from a variety of threats such as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of the Shoah. In illuminating these icons of the Holocaust, Stier offers valuable new perspective on one of the defining events of the twentieth century. He helps readers understand not only the Holocaust but also the profound nature of historical memory itself
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813574059
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813574059
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813574059/original
ER  -