The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust

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The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust is written by A. Reading and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230504973 (ISBN 10) and 9780230504974 (ISBN 13).

This book challenges current thinking on memory by examining the complex ways in which the social inheritance of the Nazi Holocaust is gendered. It considers how the past is handed down in the US, Poland and Britain through historiography, autobiographies, documentary and feature films, memorial sites and museums. It explores the configuration of socially inherited memories about the Holocaust in young people of different cultural backgrounds. Scholarly and accessible, the book provides a groundbreaking approach to understanding the significance of gender in relation to cultural mediations of history.