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

 
9780803225442: Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe
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ISBN 10 : 080322544X ISBN 13 : 9780803225442
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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).

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
080322544X
ISBN 13 
9780803225442
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
792
Éditeur
Himka John-Paul, Michlic Joanna Beata
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