Negotiating memory and identity: the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial, London

In 1983, 38 years after the end of World War II, Britain gained its first p ublic memorial dedicated solely to victims of the Holocaust: the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial Garden. Organized by the Board of Deputies of British Je ws, this campaign revealed the ways that memorialization of the Holocaust i n Britain during the 1980s was cross cut with issues of identity, memory an d history. In attempting to restore the 'biography' of the memorial, this p aper examines the way the memorial's relationship with its potential locati ons is important in the making of meaning and shows how debates over the pe rceived appropriateness of the sites were structured by, and in turn struct ure, various discourses concerning Anglo-Jewish identity. (C) 2000 Academic Press.