JEWISH LANDSCAPES ROOTED, EMBEDDED, ENSHRINED, AND TRANSCENDENT: METAPHOR AS COMMUNICATED IN JEWISH MUSEUMS IN NEW YORK, JERUSALEM, AND SAN FRANCISCO

As public places, museums negotiate authenticity and re-presentation, fact and ideology, memory and the present confronting a basic question for museums directors, curators, and visitors alike: what is the truth here? In this dissertation, the content and form of four Jewish museums are examined rhetorically: The Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, both in New York City; the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem; and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Four metaphors--rootedness, embeddedness, enshrinement, and transcendence--capture the ways each of these museums conceptualizes and presents Jewish culture.

Name thesis:degree_name

Communication

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Communication and Journalism

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Stauber, Judith

Contributors dc:contributor

• Foss, Karen
• Condon, John
• Gandert, Miguel
• Szabo, Joyce

• Jewish
• Museum
• Rhetoric
• Narrative
• Public Space
• Place

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cj_etds/20

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:cj_etds-1019