Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Who Owns History? And Who's Responsible For It?

In today's discussion, the first of many over the next two weeks, we got stuck on the notion of who bears what kind of obligation both to tell and to retell the story of the German Jewish experience of the last 1500 years. Who is the audience for such a narrative and which venue--highly symbolic like the Jewish Museum or intentionally abstract like Eisenmann's Memorial--is the most affective?

(Will it surprise anyone to know that opinions varied greatly?)

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