1st Edition
The Politics of Contested Narratives Biographical Approaches to Modern European History
1. The politics of contested narratives: Biographical approaches to modern European history. Introduction Ilse Josepha Lazaroms and Emily R. Gioielli
2. Personal epistemologies: Historiography, self-reflexivity and bios Pierre-Heli Monot
3. Living Mitteleuropa in the 1980s: A network of Hungarian and West German Intellectuals Victoria Harms
4. The double bind of self-narration: Joseph Roth, Jewish identity and the undercurrents of European modernity Ilse Josepha Lazaroms
5. Contiguous spaces of remembrance in identity writing: Chemistry, fiction and the autobiographic question in Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table Catalina Botez
6. Measuring identity change: analysing fragments from the diary of Sándor Károlyi with social-network analysis Tünde Cserpes
7. Re-presenting moral ambivalence: narratives of political monologue regarding András Hegedűs and Pál Teleki George Greskovits
8. Public festivities and the making of a national poet: a case study of Alexander Pushkin’s biography in 1899 and 1937 Anastasia Felcher
9. Self-identification through narrative: reflection on the collectivisation of agriculture in Bulgaria
Yana Georgieva Yancheva
10. Biography and social change: industrialists and the Communist revolution in Yugoslavia Mitja Sunčič
11. The secret life of us: 1984, the miners’ strike and the place of biography in writing history ‘from below’ Daryl Leeworthy
Biography
Ilse Josepha Lazaroms is a Prins Fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, USA. She received her PhD from the Department of History & Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2010. Her first book, The Grace of Misery: Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919–1939, was published in 2013. Her articles have appeared in the Leo Baeck Yearbook, the Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, and Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture. She is on the Academic Board of the European Review of History, and a contributor to The Jewish Quarterly. Her current research focuses on responses to catastrophe and narratives of anti-Jewish violence in Central Europe and in particular Hungary.
Emily R. Gioielli is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Her research focuses on the social and international history of the White Terror in post-World War I Hungary. She is also the Editor of the Online Review Database for East Central Europe and has contributed to the European Review of History and Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. In 2012–2013 she was a Dissertation Fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies.
