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This collection provides diverse insights into Jewish-Gentile relations in East Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the reestablishment of civic societies in the 1990s. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Holocaust Studies.
List of contents
1. Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in history and memory 2. Intimate violence: Jewish testimonies on victims and perpetrators in Eastern Galicia 3. Helping, denouncing, and profiteering: a process-oriented approach to Jewish-Gentile relations in occupied Poland from a micro-historical perspective 4. Geographies of obligation and the dissemination of news of the Holocaust 5. Was the antisemitic propaganda a catalyst for tensions in the Slovak-Jewish relations? 6. Memories of the Holocaust: Slovak bystanders 7. The image of the "Jew" as an "enemy" in the propaganda of Late Stalinism and its reflection in the Czechoslovak context 8. Abandoned, confiscated, and stolen property: Jewish-Gentile relations in Hungary as reflected in restitution letters 9. The "Holocausts" in Greece: victim competition in the context of postwar compensation for Nazi persecution 10. Conceptions of the catastrophe: discourses on the past before the rise of Holocaust memory 11. Lamentations of a shopkeeper for his sluttish daughter? Tadeusz Borowski and His "Holocaust Socialist Realism" 12. Nontraditional images of the Holocaust in Czech literature and cinema: comedy and laughter
About the author
Hana Kubátová is an Assistant Professor at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Jan Láníček is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Summary
This collection provides diverse insights into Jewish-Gentile relations in East Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the reestablishment of civic societies in the 1990s. This book was originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies.
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"Overall, this collection of essays provides a well-documented, multifaceted update on recent research regarding wartime Jewish–Gentile relations, how they have been “remembered” in Central and Eastern Europe, and how that memory operates today."
- Atil Rodal, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter
