Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Zakhor: The Task of Holocaust Remembrance, Questions of Representation, and the Sacred 8
7. 2. An Architecture of Absence: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin 27
8. 3. Architectures of Redemption and Experience: Yad Vashem and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 57
9. 4. The Artful Eye: Learning to See and Perceive Otherwise inside Museum Exhibits 85
10. 5. “We Are the Last Witnesses”: Artifact, Aura, and Authenticity 119
11. 6. Refiguring the Sacred: Strategies of Disfiguration in String, the Memorial to the Deportees, and Menora 149
12. 7. Rituals of Remembrance in Jerusalem and Berlin: Museum Visiting as Pilgrimage and Performance 183
13. Conclusion: “Now All That Is Left Is to Remember” 215
14. Notes 219
15. Bibliography 235
16. Index 249
17. About the Author 263