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Yellow Star, Red Star - Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Hardcover)
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Yellow Star, Red Star - Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Hardcover)
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Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so
deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and
obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those
lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of
accession to the European Union, Jelena Subotić shows, East
European states were required to adopt, participate in, and
contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust.
This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist
states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant
narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly
Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's
own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist
states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing
new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and
imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes
of communism. Yellow Star, Red Star presents in-depth accounts of
Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania,
and extends the discussion to other East European states. The book
demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance
as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary "ontological
insecurities"—insecurities about their identities, about their
international status, and about their relationships with other
international actors. As Subotić concludes, Holocaust memory in
Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the
desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its
aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities
in a precarious and uncertain world.
General
Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2019 |
Authors: |
Jelena Subotić
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-4240-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-5017-4240-X |
Barcode: |
9781501742408 |
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