Title Growing in the shadow of antifascism : remembering the Holocaust in communist Eastern Europe / edited by Kata Bohus, Peter Hallama, Stephan Stach

Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (unpaged) Contents Part One: Historiography -- Part Two: Sites of memory -- Part Three: Artistic representations -- Part Four: Media and public debate Summary "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 in the. 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 acknowledgement 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 great variety of concrete, local memory practices"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 30, 2022) Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Europe, Eastern -- Historiography Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Historiography Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century Jews -- Persecutions -- Europe, Eastern -- Historiography Communism -- Europe, Eastern -- Historiography Fascism -- Europe, Eastern -- Historiography HISTORY / Holocaust Communism -- Historiography Ethnic relations Fascism -- Historiography Historiography Jews Jews -- Historiography Jews -- Persecutions -- Historiography SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations Subject Eastern Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Bohus, Kata, editor, author. Hallama, Peter, editor, author. Stach, Stephan, editor, author. LC no. 2022014877 ISBN 9633864364 9789633864364

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