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

Contributors

695 Contributors omer bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy in Berlin, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Davis Center at Princeton, and others . He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . His books include Germany’s War and the Holocaust (2003), The “Jew” in Cinema (2005), and Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007). He has also written for the New Republic, Nation, Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, and other European and Israeli journals. He is now completing a new book about the town of Buczacz. joseph benatov holds a doctorate in comparative literature and literary theory from the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches Hebrew. His dissertation is titled “Looking in the Iron Mirror: Eastern Europe in the American Imaginary, 1958–2001.” He has also written on Jewish identity politics in Philip Roth’s early fiction and on the sensationalism of U.S. representations of life behind the Iron Curtain. He recently translated into English the contemporary Bulgarian novel Zift (2010). He has also translated Israeli poetry and drama, including two plays by Hanoch Levin staged to wide acclaim in Sofia, Bulgaria . Most recently he translated Martin McDonagh’s latest play, A Behanding in Spokane, currently in its second season at the Bulgarian National Theater. 696 Contributors mark biondich (PhD 1997, University of Toronto) is adjunct research professor at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and a senior analyst with Public Safety Canada. He is the author of two books, including The Balkans: Revolution, War, and Political Violence since 1878 (2011), and more than a dozen articles on the history of Croatian fascism, the former Yugoslavia, and the Balkans, published in peerreviewed journals in Europe and North America. He is currently working on a history of Croatian fascism. jovan byford is senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University , United Kingdom. His research interests include Holocaust remembrance, conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism, and the Serbian far right. He is the author of four books: Conspiracy Theory: Serbia vs. the New World Order (2006, in Serbian), Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimiroviü (2008), Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (2011), and most recently Staro Sajmište: A Site Remembered, Forgotten, Contested (2011, in Serbian), which charts the postwar history of the site of the Semlin Judenlager in Belgrade. holly case is associate professor of history at Cornell University. She received her ba (1997) from Mount Holyoke College, and her ma (2001) and PhD (2004) in history and humanities from Stanford University under the mentorship of Norman Naimark. She is the author of Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II (Stanford University Press, 2009). She coedited with Norman Naimark Yugoslavia and Its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s (2003). Her research and teaching are focused on the modern history of East-Central Europe, ideas of Europe and European statehood, the politics of violence, and the intersection between social policy and geopolitics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. mihai chioveanu is associate professor with the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest. Since 2004 he is a member of the Romanian Delegation to the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research. Contributors 697 He is the author of Feţele fascismului: Politică, ideologie şi scrisul istoric în secolul XX (The faces of fascism: Politics, ideology, and historical writing in the twentieth century) (2005) and has published numerous articles and studies on the Romanian Holocaust and fascism in Studia Politica, Romanian Political Science Review, Studia Hebraica, Sfera Politicii , and Xenopoliana. His field of expertise covers European fascism, Holocaust and genocide studies, and Middle East politics. michal frankl received his PhD from Charles University in Prague for his dissertation on the history of Czech anti-Semitism at the end of the nineteenth century. He is head of the Shoah History Department in the Jewish Museum in Prague and teaches at the cet Academic Programs Jewish Studies in Prague. His research interests include the history of modern anti-Semitism, refugees and refugee policy, the Holocaust, and Holocaust remembrance and historiography . He is author of “Emancipace...