At Memory's Edge : After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture

How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young -- the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial -- tells the inside story of this enormously controversial project. Young also inquires deeply into the moral and aesthetic questions surrounding artistic representations of the Holocaust produced by young artists who themselves did not experience it.