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Why Jewish Museums? An International
Perspective

Publication date: 2013

Studia Judaica, 2013, Nr 2 (32), pp. 77 - 100

Authors

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
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Why Jewish Museums? An International
Perspective

Abstract

A work in progress, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw offers a new vantage point for considering the wider question of what constitutes a Jewish museum and the role such museums can play in Europe today. Will it be a Jewish museum, however that is defined, a Polish museum, a Holocaust museum by another name, or something else? What will be the relation of the “museum of life”, as the Museum resolutely defines itself, to Holocaust education and commemoration, without becoming a “Holocaust museum”? This essay explores these questions from an international perspective.

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Information: Studia Judaica, 2013, pp. 77 - 100

Article type: Original article

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Why Jewish Museums? An International
Perspective

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Why Jewish Museums? An International
Perspective

Published at: 2013

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