In this Book
- Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism: Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe
- Book
- 2022
- Published by: Central European University Press
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Reined into the service of the Cold War confrontation, antifascist ideology overshadowed the narrative about the Holocaust in the communist states of Eastern Europe. This led to the Western notion that in the Soviet Bloc there was a systematic suppression of the memory of the mass murder of European Jews. Going beyond disputing the mistaken opposition between “communist falsification” of history and the “repressed authentic” interpretation of the Jewish catastrophe, this work presents and analyzes the ways as the Holocaust was conceptualized in the Soviet-ruled parts of Europe.
The authors provide various interpretations of the relationship between antifascism and Holocaust memory in the communist countries, arguing that the predominance of an antifascist agenda and the acknowledgment of the Jewish catastrophe were far from mutually exclusive. The interactions included acts of negotiation, cross-referencing, and borrowing. Detailed case studies describe how both individuals and institutions were able to use anti-fascism as a framework to test and widen the boundaries for discussion of the Nazi genocide. The studies build on the new historiography of communism, focusing on everyday life and individual agency, revealing the formation of a great variety of concrete, local memory practices.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- pp. vi-vii
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- pp. x-xi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xii-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- Part One: Historiography
- Political Censorship
- pp. 25-30
- Conclusion
- pp. 36-38
- Miroslav Kárný
- pp. 42-44
- Holocaust Witness and Scholar
- pp. 44-52
- Conclusion
- pp. 61-62
- Conclusion
- pp. 83-84
- Part Two: Sites of Memory
- Chapter 4: Parallel Memories?
- pp. 85-91
- Mutually Exclusive Memories?
- pp. 91-96
- Conclusions
- pp. 107-108
- Creation of a Commemorative Idiom
- pp. 114-119
- Conclusions
- p. 126
- "The Ground is Burning Beneath My Feet"
- pp. 131-133
- New Legal Framework
- pp. 133-134
- Such Profanation is Unacceptable
- pp. 135-140
- Open Door to the Abyss
- pp. 140-141
- A Turning Point
- pp. 142-146
- The Final Years
- pp. 147-152
- Part Three: Artistic Representations
- Chapter 7: Writing a Soviet Holocaust Novel
- pp. 153-155
- The Hungarian Memorial in Mauthausen
- pp. 177-185
- Victors vs. Victims: The Yugoslav Memorial
- pp. 186-189
- 1965, Hungarian National Gallery
- pp. 201-203
- Conclusion
- pp. 204-206
- The Kádárist Cultural Landscape
- pp. 210-212
- Jews and Non-Jews: Responsibility and Guilt
- pp. 212-217
- Narrative Strategies
- pp. 217-220
- Fate and Memory
- pp. 220-221
- Part Four: Media and Public Debate
- Heinz Knobloch
- pp. 233-234
- Herr Moses in Berlin
- pp. 234-243
- Meine liebste Mathilde
- pp. 243-248
- Der beherzte Reviervorsteher
- pp. 248-249
- Conclusion
- pp. 249-252
- Yiddish in Postwar Soviet Union
- pp. 256-257
- A Monument over Babyn Yar
- pp. 260-264
- Conclusion
- pp. 272-274
- The Three Books
- pp. 281-285
- The Censors' Verdict on the Polish Books
- pp. 285-288
- The Perception of the Books
- pp. 292-297
- Conclusion
- pp. 301-302
- Conclusions
- Eastern Europe in its Diversity
- pp. 310-313
- Making Sense of the Holocaust with Agency
- pp. 313-315
- Demarginalizing Eastern Europe
- pp. 315-318
- List of Contributors
- pp. 319-322
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