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Holocaust remembrance between the national and the transnational : the Stockholm International Forum and the first decade of the international task force / Larissa Allwork

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Allwork, Larissa
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London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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©2015
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English.
Contents
Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; What was the SIF 2000?; Collective memory studies between the national and the transnational; HRNT; Sources and methodology; 1 'Money ought not to be the last memory of the Holocaust': The International and Transnational Historical Context for the SI; Restitution in the 1990s; The establishment of Sweden's Levande Historia project (1997) and liberal fears concerning the growth of the radical and extr., Precedents for the intensification of international and transnational collaborations in Holocaust memory workConclusion; 2 Connecting with the World? The ITF and the Organization and Media Reception of the SIF 2000; Why Sweden, Britain, America and Bauer?; Yehuda Bauer: From 'uniqueness' to 'unprecedentedness'; The ITF, the WCHA and the subsequent organization of the SIF 2000; The ITF and the context of Kosovo; The ITF in London; Liaison projects; The Czech 'Liaison Project'; UK Holocaust Memorial Day and the immediate months preceding the SIF 2000; The responses of delegates to the SIF 2000., The media reception of the SIF 2000'Blind spots'; Conclusion; 3 The Global Legacies of the SIF 2000: The Subsequent Stockholm Conferences and the ITF (2000-8); The legacies of the SIF 2000 part 1: The SIFs 2001, 2002, 2004 and the Living History Forum; The legacies of the SIF 2000 part 2: The ITF (2000-8); Conclusion; 4 Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational: The ITF British/Lithuanian 'Liaison Project'; Lithuania and the Holocaust; The British/Lithuanian 'Liaison Project' (2000-3); Interpreting the British/Lithuanian ITF 'Liaison Project'; Conclusion., and 5 Interpreting the SIF 2000: The Limits of the 'New Cosmopolitan' Global TheoryLevy, Sznaider and the 'New Cosmopolitan' interpretation of the SIF 2000; Problems with the 'New Cosmopolitan' interpretation of the SIF 2000; Conclusion; Conclusion: From the ITF to the IHRA; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe and the Nazi-era past in the world arena. It uses a range of primary documentation from the restitution conferences, speeches and presentations made at the Stockholm International Forum of 2000 (SIF 2000), a global event and an attempt to mark a defining moment in the inter-cultural construction of the political and institutional memory of the Holocaust in the USA, Europe and Israel. Containing oral history interviews with delegates to the conference and contempora.
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ISBN
9781441131522 (electronic bk.)
1441131523 (electronic bk.)
9781472587152
1472587154
9781474210737 (online)
1474210732
9781441185884
1441185887
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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