Jewish Life in Southeast Europe: Diverse Perspectives on the Holocaust and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367178956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 150 str.

Kateřina Kralova; Marija Vulesica; Giorgos Antoniou

Opis

This book brings together political, cultural and social insights into the life of Jews in Southeast Europe in the 20^th century, with a special focus paid to the shifting identities, the changing communities and the memory of the Holocaust. This book was originally published as a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction – diverse perspectives on Jewish life in Southeast Europe: the Holocaust and beyond  1. Defining inter-communality between documents, tradition and collective memory: Jewish and non-Jewish capital and labor in early twentieth century Rhodes  2. Antisemitism as political theology in Greece and its impact on Greek Jewry, 1967–1979  3. Voices from the ghetto of Thessaloniki: mother–son correspondence as a source of Jewish everyday life under persecution  4. From salvation to Alya: the Bulgarian Jews and Bulgarian-Israeli relations (1948–1990)  5. Rebuilding the community: the Federation of Jewish Communities and American Jewish humanitarian aid in Yugoslavia, 1944–1952  6. ‘Being traitors’: post-war Greece in the experience of Jewish partisans  7. Memorialization of the Holocaust in Transylvania during the early post-war period