Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism

Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-963-386-435-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 645 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bohus, Kata

Stach, Stephan

Hallama, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part One Historiography, Part Two Sites of Memory, Part Three Artistic Representations, Part Four Media and Public Debate, Conclusions, Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Kata Bohus is senior research advisorat the University of Tromsø

Stephan Stach is a historian at Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig.

Dr. Peter Hallama is research fellow at the University of Bern, Switzerland.