Visitors to the House of Memory

Victoria Bishop Kendzia is a teaching fellow at Humboldt University, Berlin. Her publications include “‘Jewish’ Ethnic Options in Germany between Attribution and Choice: Auto-Ethnographical Reflections at the Jewish Museum Berlin” in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. She completed her doctorate at Humboldt’s Institute of European Ethnology.

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Acknowledgements

Preface



Introduction



Chapter 1. Focus of the Research and Methodological Approach: The Research Question

Chapter 2. Memory, Political Education and the Positioning of the JMB: From Memory to Remembrance to Past Presencing

Chapter 3. Betroffenheit: The Museum Visit as an Embodied Memorial Experience

Chapter 4. The Visit as a Predominantly “Touristic” Activity

Chapter 5. Between Engagement, Playful Appropriation, and Exclusion

Chapter 6. Concluding Reflections: From the Museum as a Field Site to a More Inclusive Culture of Memory



Afterword

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