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

ISBN-13: 9781032087085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Kateřina Králová; 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 St

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

O autorze

Kateřina Králová is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Russian and Eastern European Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on reconciliation with the Nazi past, the Holocaust and its aftermath. She is currently working on a book about Holocaust survivors in Greece.

Marija Vulesica is a Researcher at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin, Germany. She is the author of numerous articles on antisemitism, the Holocaust and Jews in Southeastern Europe. She is currently working on a book about Yugoslav Zionists and the transnational networks established to help Central European Jews escape Nazi persecution.

Giorgos Antoniou is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, as well as a former Research Fellow at the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah in Paris, France, and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University, USA. His research includes post-conflict societies, the Holocaust in Greece, collective memory and public history.