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“The memorial uncanny might be regarded as that which is necessarily antiredemptive. It is that
memory of historical events which never domesticates such events, never makes us at home with
them, never brings them into the reassuring house of redemptory meaning” (Young, “Libeskin’s
Jewish Museum,” 154-155).
What does the passage mean?
In The Uncanny Arts of Memorial Architecture, James Young illustrates Libeskind’s
Jewish Museum in Berlin and articulates the limits of architecture for the unspoken history of the
Jewish culture through Germany. The passage outlines his beliefs that an event or action that
should have remained in the past becomes antiredemptive as the memorials bring the dead to the
