Memory, Counter-Memory and the end of the Monument

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James Young, professor and chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst speaks tonight in Annenberg Hall, Room 3, 5:40-8:30. Young was on the German commission for the "Monument for Europe's Murdered Jews" and also on the jury for the World Trade Center Memorial competition.

Below are a book and two articles by Young.
Germany's Holocaust Memorial problem--and Mine
The Holocaust as Vicarious Past
The Texture of Memory

--Fred Rowland

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