Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
6-2020
Document Type
Capstone Project
Degree Name
M.A.
Program
Liberal Studies
Advisor
Christopher Schmidt
Subject Categories
Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Jewish Studies
Keywords
Holocaust memory, Transnational memory, Jewish studies, Diaspora, Memorials, Ghetto
Abstract
This paper is the first component of my capstone on the comparative study of the ghetto of Rome and Łódź ghetto in Poland. This project hopes to examine the importance of collective and spatial memory, and how these factors play a crucial role in our connection and understanding of identity, locations, and memory formation. The following paper will display the similarities between the occupation of the ghetto of Roman from 1555 to the unification of Italy in 1870, and the Łódź ghetto operation during World War II (1939-1945). The paper will also touch upon the differences between today’s Roman Jewish quarter and the Łódź ghetto memorial. Both locations are essential to the collective memory of Jewish identity, while the spatial associations of each location are vastly different. The second component of the project is a website, which I have created on WordPress; through CUNY Academic Commons. The website follows the historical background that is set up in this paper, while also providing visual representation to the locations and ideas that are presented in this paper.
Recommended Citation
Caraballo, Bryanna, "Spatial and Collective Memories of Jewish Heritage Sites: A Comparative Study" (2020). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3771
Archived website as a WARC file, created using webrecorder.io – web archive player available at https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorderplayer-electron
Comments
Online component: https://beyondtheghetto.commons.gc.cuny.edu/