Bringing the Dark Past to Light - The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe

Informationen zum Autor John-Paul Himka is a professor of history and classics at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians. Joanna Beata Michlic is the director and founder of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University and is the author of Poland's Threatening Other (Nebraska, 2006). Klappentext Despite the Holocaust's profound impact on the history of Eastern Europe, the communist regimes successfully repressed public discourse about and memory of this tragedy. Since the collapse of communism in 1989, however, this has changed. Not only has a wealth of archival sources become available, but there have also been oral history projects and interviews recording the testimonies of eyewitnesses who experienced the Holocaust as children and young adults. Recent political, social, and cultural developments have facilitated a more nuanced and complex understanding of the continuities and discontinuities in representations of the Holocaust. People are beginning to realize the significant role that memory of Holocaust plays in contemporary discussions of national identity in Eastern Europe. This volume of original essays explores the memory of the Holocaust and the Jewish past in postcommunist Eastern Europe. Devoting space to every postcommunist country, the essays in Bringing the Dark Past to Light explore how the memory of the "dark pasts" of Eastern European nations is being recollected and reworked. In addition, it examines how this memory shapes the collective identities and the social identity of ethnic and national minorities. Memory of the Holocaust has practical implications regarding the current development of national cultures and international relationships. Zusammenfassung Explores the memory of the Holocaust and the Jewish past in post-communist Eastern Europe Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic1. "Our Conscience Is Clean": Albanian Elites and the Memory of the Holocaust in Postsocialist Albania  Daniel Perez2. The Invisible Genocide: The Holocaust in Belarus  Per Anders Rudling3. Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust in Bosnia and Herzegovina  Francine Friedman4. Debating the Fate of Bulgarian Jews during World War II  Joseph Benatov5. Representations of the Holocaust and Historical Debates in Croatia since 1989  Mark Biondich6. The Sheep of Lidice: The Holocaust and the Construction of Czech National History  Michal Frankl7. Victim of History: Perceptions of the Holocaust in Estonia  Anton Weiss-Wendt8. Holocaust Remembrance in the German Democratic Republic--and Beyond  Peter Monteath9. The Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Hungary  Part 1: The Politics of Holocaust Memory  Paul Hanebrink Part 2: Cinematic Memory of the Holocaust  Catherine Portuges10. The Transformation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia  Bella Zisere11. Conflicting Memories: The Reception of the Holocaust in Lithuania Saulius Sužiedlis and Šar¿nas Liekis12. The Combined Legacies of the "Jewish Question" and the "Macedonian Question"  Holly Case13. Public Discourses on the Holocaust in Moldova: Justification, Instrumentalization, and Mourning  Vladimir Solonari14. The Memory of the Holocaust in Post-1989 Poland: Renewal--Its Accomplishments and Its Powerlessness  Joanna B. Michlic and Mägorzata Melchior15. Public Perceptions of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Romania  Felicia Waldman and Mihai Chioveanu16. The Reception of the Holocaust in Russia: Silence, Conspiracy, and Glimpses of Light  Klas-Göran Karlsson17. Between Marginalization and Instrumentalization: Holocaust Memory in Serbia since the Late 1980s  Jovan Byford18. The "Unmasterable Past"? The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Slovakia  Nina Paulovi¿ová19. On the Periphery: Jews, Slovenes, and the Memory of the Holocaust Gr...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John-Paul Michlic Himka
• Con la collaborazione di: John-Paul Himka (Editore), Joanna Beata Michlic (Editore)
• Editore: University of Nebraska Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.2013
• EAN: 9780803225442
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-2544-2
• Pagine: 792
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945)