Table of Contents:
  • Setting the framework / Jay Winter, Emmanuel Sivan.
  • Forms of kinship and remembrance in the aftermath of the Great War / Jay Winter.
  • War, death, and remembrance in Soviet Russia / Catherine Merridale.
  • Agents of memory: Spanish Civil War veterans and disabled soldiers / Paloma Aguilar.
  • Children as war victims in postwar European cinema / Pierre Sorlin.
  • From survivor to witness: voices from the Shoah / Annette Wieviorka.
  • Landscapes of loss and remembrance: the case of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles / Dolores Hayden.
  • The Algerian War in French collective memory / Antoine Prost.
  • Private pain and public remembrance in Israel / Emmanuel Sivan.
  • Personal narratives and commemoration / Samuel Hynes.
  • Against consolation: Walter Benjamin and the refusal to mourn / Martin Jay.