Thrice Plundered: The Politics of Restitution with Regard to the Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The chapter deals specifically with a political attempt at history’s erasure. As detailed throughout the anthology, the manipulation and often willful misinterpretation of history in order to benefit one group while belittling the suffering of another group by changing the record of, or even denying, their experience has led to distrust among the groups involved, no less today than previously. The appropriation of private and communal property of a powerless or minority group by a country’s dominant group through manipulation of the historical record, treated here through a case study of the theft over many decades of the Bosnian Jewish community’s property, is, thus, a clear example of the politicization of history.
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Thrice Plundered: The Politics of Restitution with Regard to the Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina. . 2021: 121-138. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1007/978-3-030-65832-8_6