Prague in the Jewish Landscape of Recollection after the Shoah (on the Importance of Commemorative Placesof Memory): Years 1945 to 1989
2010
Abstract
Immediately after the Second World War the Jewish landscape of recollection was deeply painful. Jewish representatives mainly tried to heal these wounds by referring to the ancientness of the Prague Jewish Community and to the positive importance of the Diaspora and to the high character of Jewish society.
In Jewish selection of memories the most important role was understandably played by memories of the Shoah. After the February Revolution there came a phase which we, along with Jacques Le Goff, can call power manipulation with the landscape of memory.