ABSTRACT
Jewish communities have responded in diverse ways to the state’s enthusiasm for Holocaust remembrance initiatives since the 1990s. Early sections of the chapter explore this by comparing Jewish relationships first with Yom HaShoah and the national HMD, and second, the Hyde Park Holocaust memorial and plans for a new memorial and learning centre next to the Houses of Parliament. The complications in these relationships reflect a tension between emphasising the Holocaust’s universal implications and its particular meanings for Jewish communities, a conflict considered further in relation to patterns in Holocaust education in schools and debates over antisemitism in the Labour Party. The final section builds on this to focus on the influence of the Jewish-American writer Elie Wiesel, suggesting that his understandings of Holocaust memory as a ‘domain of the sacred’ helped shape the developments in ritual, sacred space, and pilgrimage addressed in chapters 5–8.
