James E. Young

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James E. Young, Trondheim, Norway 2018

James Edward Young (born August 26, 1951 in San José , California ) is an American linguist and Judaist .

Life

James E. Young studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz and received his Masters from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 .

He received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1983 and became an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College . From 1984 he was "Dorot Professor of English and Hebrew / Judaic Studies" at New York University . Since 1988 he has taught as Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . He is the director of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). He was visiting professor at the University of Washington , Harvard University and Princeton University and received a number of other scholarships in addition to a Guggenheim scholarship.

Young researches narrative theory , image theory , cultural memory and the Holocaust . He has published a variety of articles. The book The Texture of Memory. He wrote Holocaust Memorials and Meaning in Berlin when the Berlin Wall was demolished there after the political change and chunks of wall were offered in clean plastic bags in souvenir shops in order to be remembered in this “texture”. He received the National Jewish Book Award for the book .

In 1994 he curated the exhibition The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History at the Jewish Museum in New York , which also went to Berlin and Munich. In 1997 the Berlin Senate appointed him to the search committee for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe . In 2003, he was appointed to the Advisory Board for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum . Since 2012, the ten-volume document edition Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization has been published by Yale University Press under his direction .

Fonts (selection)

  • Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: narrative and the consequences of interpretation . Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Pr., 1988 Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz 1983
    • Describing the Holocaust: Presentation and Consequences of Interpretation . Translation Christa Schuenke . Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag, 1992 ISBN 3-633-54055-5
  • The Texture of Memory. Holocaust Memorials and Meaning . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993
    • Forms of Remembrance: Memorials to the Holocaust . Vienna: Passagen-Verl., 1997 ISBN 3-85165-174-X
  • (Ed.): Memorials of the Holocaust: Motifs, rituals and places of remembrance . [To the exhibition The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History .] Munich: Prestel, 1994 ISBN 3-7913-1337-1
  • At Memory's Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000
  • (Ed.): The Posen Library of Jewish culture and civilization. 10 1973-2005 . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012

literature

  • Adi Gordon, Amos Goldberg: The centrality of the Shoah , interview, from the English by Alma Lessing, in: David Bankier (Ed.): Questions about the Holocaust: Interviews with prominent researchers and thinkers . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006, pp. 314–337 [1998]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James E. Young , at Prabook
  2. ↑ James E. Young: The Texture of Memory , 1993, Preface , S. viif.
personal data
SURNAME Young, James E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, James Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist and Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , California , United States