1st Edition

Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust History and memory

Edited By Hana Kubátová, Jan Láníček Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Providing diverse insights into Jewish–Gentile relations in East Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the reestablishment of civic societies after the fall of Communism in the late 1980s, this volume brings together scholars from various disciplines – including history, sociology, political science, cultural studies, film studies and anthropology – to investigate the... Read more

1. Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in history and memory

Hana Kubátová and Jan Láníček

2. Intimate violence: Jewish testimonies on victims and perpetrators in Eastern Galicia

Natalia Aleksiun

3. Helping, denouncing, and profiteering: a process-oriented approach to Jewish–Gentile

relations in occupied Poland from a micro-historical perspective

Agnieszka Wierzcholska

4. Geographies of obligation and the dissemination of news of the Holocaust

Michael Fleming

5. Was the antisemitic propaganda a catalyst for tensions in the Slovak-Jewish relations?

Michala Lônčíková

6. Memories of the Holocaust: Slovak bystanders

Monika Vrzgulová

7. The image of the "Jew" as an "enemy" in the propaganda of Late Stalinism and its reflection in the Czechoslovak context

Kateřina Šimová

8. Abandoned, confiscated, and stolen property: Jewish–Gentile relations in Hungary as reflected in restitution letters

Borbála Klacsmann

9. The "Holocausts" in Greece: victim competition in the context of postwar compensation for Nazi persecution

Kateřina Králová

10. Conceptions of the catastrophe: discourses on the past before the rise of Holocaust memory

Máté Zombory

11. Lamentations of a shopkeeper for his sluttish daughter? Tadeusz Borowski and His "Holocaust Socialist Realism"

Paweł Wolski

12. Nontraditional images of the Holocaust in Czech literature and cinema: comedy and laughter

Jiří Holý

Biography

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.

"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