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Antisemitismus zwischen Kontinuität und Adaptivität: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Geschichte, Aktualität und Prävention
Translated Title: Antisemitism between continuity and adaptivity: Interdisciplinary perspectives on history, current events and prevention
Editor(s): Schmidt, Lennard; Borsch, Andreas; Richter, Salome; Seul, Marc; Zarbock, Luca; Heudtlaß, Niels
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Politics of Innocence: Holocaust Memory in Poland
Author(s): Kończal, Kornelia
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, Politics
Holocaust Memorial Days: An overview of remembrance and education in the OSCE region. 2022
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Memorials, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Roma
Abstract: This publication provides information on when, where and how OSCE participating States promote the commemoration and study of the Holocaust, including the genocide of Roma and Sinti, in line with their OSCE commitments. The information was gathered through an online questionnaire that ODIHR disseminated to all participating States.

The individual country responses can be found in the separate annex document, included in this record.
Statistik der Beratungsanfragen 2021-2022
Translated Title: Statistics on consultation requests 2021-2022
Date: 2022
Topics: Counseling, Antisemitism: Monitoring, Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Addressing Antisemitism in Germany: Challenges and Possibilities in Society, School, and Education
Author(s): Bernstein, Julia; Grimm, Marc; Müller, Stefan
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Education against, Teaching and Pedagogy, Schools: Non-Jewish, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: We begin by explaining the need for educational measures targeting antisemitism in its own right, distinct from anti-racist programs. We then provide succinct sketches of the evolution of contemporary antisemitism and the social parameters governing antisemitic communication in Germany. This is followed by a discussion of both individual and
collective defense and evasion strategies that obstruct the necessary critical treatment of antisemitism and form an obstacle to antisemitism prevention work more generally. The extent to which Jewish life is respected at school tends to be determined directly by the extent to which such defense mechanisms are allowed to prevail, and it is of crucial importance that educational measures targeting antisemitism do not selectively instrumentalize Jewish input. Having discussed these challenges against the backdrop of the parameters governing the public communication of antisemitism, we conclude with a short summary of our principal recommendations.
Vlogging Auschwitz: new players in Holocaust commemoration
Author(s): Łysak, Tomasz
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Memorials, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Social Media, Tourism
Abstract: Content creators on YouTube have started documenting their visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in vlog form. This social media format has enabled influencers to assume the role of popular historian, endowing their trips with a sense of moral responsibility. Critical tools should be applied not only to content analysis but also to metadata and various methods of curating visibility on the platform. Additionally, mechanisms of self-promotion and the fate of official narratives of commemoration in an era of user-generated content are of interest. Is this new cohort of popular history practitioners a welcome development in the field of commemoration?
Walking-with, re-membering the Holocaust: Forced Walks: Honouring Esther, a case study of somatic and digital creative practice
Author(s): White, Richard S.
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Memorials, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: The paper discusses a walking and multi-media arts project seeking to renew agency in Holocaust testimony and generate contemporary resonances. Forced Walks is a programme of speculative, socially engaged experiments, initiated by artists Richard White and Lorna Brunstein. Honouring Esther (2015–2017), the first Forced Walks project, walked the route of a Nazi Death March digitally transposed to Somerset (UK), subsequently retracing it in Lower Saxony, Germany. The project engaged walkers in co-creating an immanent reflective space materialized in mark-making, social media and installation. An emergent hybrid somatic/digital process, ‘making the return’ in a specific Holocaust context, is presented.
Willed Ignorance: Reflections on academic free speech, occasioned by the David Miller case
Author(s): Julius, Anthony
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism, Universities / Higher Education, Law, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: The David Miller case raises the question, does liberal free speech doctrine require academics to defend the antisemitic conspiracy-talk of a sociology professor? The article opens with a discussion of Louise Glück's poem ‘A Myth of Innocence’, and then proceeds towards an answer to this question, pausing to address details of the Miller case itself when the general argument requires it to do so.
Beyond Victimhood : German Muslims and the Minority Question after the Holocaust
Author(s): Doughan, Sultan; Brusius, Mirjam Sarah
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islam, Immigration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Minorities, National Identity, Attitudes to Jews
Abstract: In her research, Sultan Doughan shows how the memory of the Holocaust is mobilized in tolerance education and extremism prevention as a means of integrating Muslims into German society. Yet while the German government invests in memorials and museums that commemorate the Holocaust, Doughan argues, it also extricates itself from current forms of violence. Holocaust commemoration as a European project is part of a triumphalist narrative that presents Vergangenheitsbewältigung as a successful transition to liberal democracy—a reality that minoritizes and racializes Middle Easterners as Muslims. In this interview with historian Mirjam Sarah Brusius, anthropologist Sultan Doughan examines how Middle Easterners in Germany relate to the figure of the Jew. Muslims and Jews operate in this governed structure as opposing figures who must be religious and historical enemies. While both have clearly assigned roles in German public discourse, Doughan approaches their historical and contemporary positionalities beyond clear-cut concepts of Opferkonkurrenz, and thus rethinks this discourse and points to past and future alliances.
Minor Citizens? Holocaust Memory and the Un/Making of Citizenship in Germany
Author(s): Doughan, Sultan
Date: 2022
Topics: Immigration, Citizenship, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland
Translated Title: Jewish Life in Germany
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Im Dezember 321 teilte der römische Kaiser Konstantin den Kölner Ratsherren mit, dass es fortan gesetzlich möglich sei, auch jüdische Bürger in den Rat zu berufen. Sein Brief gilt als die älteste schriftliche Quelle, die jüdisches Leben auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Deutschlands belegt. Er ist somit die Grundlage dafür, dass 2021 das Festjahr „1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland“ begangen wurde.

In den 24 Beiträgen dieses Buches, die zum überwiegenden Teil auf einen Call for Papers für „Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte“ zurückgehen, spiegelt sich ein kleines Stück der Vielfalt des jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland wider – von den frühen Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Sie zeigen, dass gelebtes Judentum wesentlich mehr ist als Religion, und dass es innerhalb der jüdischen Community in Deutschland eine große Bandbreite unterschiedlichster und sich wandelnder Identitäten gibt.
Tour Guides at Memorial Sites and Holocaust Museums: Empirical Studies in Europe, Israel, North America and South Africa
Editor(s): Ballis, Anja
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Education, Educational Tours, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: In this volume, contributors reflect on how to teach and mediate difficult history from the perspectives of guides. Too often, their activities are undervalued and taken for granted. Guides represent an important, often forgotten group of educators. This volume takes a global view on guiding at memorial sites and museums in Europe, North America, and South Africa. The contributors to this volume show from different research traditions that it is worth understanding more about the guides’ personal interests, their motivations, and their concept of guiding. Authors apply methodologies from the social sciences to describe the guides’ point of view. Complementing the various approaches in tour guide research, a detailed linguistic analysis sheds light on a survivor’s testimony echoed in the guides’ language.
Holocaust education in transition from live to virtual survivor testimony: pedagogical and ethical dilemmas
Author(s): Marcus, Alan S.; Maor, Rotem; McGregor, Ian M.; Mills, Gary; Schweber, Simone; Stoddard, Jeremy; Hicks, David
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Memorials, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Museums, Oral History and Biography
Abstract: This article explores the pedagogical challenges and ethical dilemmas related to the use of Virtual Interactive Holocaust Survivor Testimony (VIHST) in place of live survivor testimony. The National Holocaust Centre and Museum (UK) uses 3D interactive digital as an attempt to replicate the meaningful learning experiences of listening to a live survivor. Data was collected through interviews with survivors and museum staff. Key findings include how survivors are chosen to participate, whether testimonies can or should be edited for pedagogical purposes, and challenges associated with virtual testimony that do not exist with live survivor testimony.
Суспільно-політична активність єврейської громади Європи та особливості політики урядів країн континенту з „єврейського питання”: 2014–2021 рр.
Translated Title: Socio-political activity of the Jewish community of Europe and peculiarities of the policies of the governments of the continent on the “Jewish question”: 2014–2021
Author(s): Козерод, O. B.
Editor(s): Подольський, A.
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Politics, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, European Union
Materiality and Holocaust Memory: Activating and Theorizing Poland’s Unquiet Places
Author(s): Lehrer, Erica
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Artefacts and Material Culture, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Memorials, Memory
Jan Gross’s Neighbors and Poland’s Narrative Shock
Author(s): Zubrzycki, Geneviève
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust: Collaboration, Holocaust, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Turkish Jews in an Unwelcoming Public Space
Author(s): Kaymak, Özgür
Editor(s): Öktem, Kerem; Yosmaoğlu, Ipek Kocaömer
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism, Security / Insecurity, Citizenship, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: “Turkish Jews in an unwelcoming public space” focuses on the transformation of citizenship experiences and daily life practices of Turkish Jews in the last decade. I argue that Turkish Jews’ feelings of insecurity have intensified as consequence of the rising religious conservatism under subsequent AKP governments. This sense of insecurity has become even more acute with the rise of anti-Semitism especially after the 2013 Gezi Park Protests and the July 15 coup attempt in 2016. In this chapter, I discuss the main strategies and performative repertoires that Turkish Jews have adopted in response to this adversarial social and political environmen
Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism
Author(s): Baer, Marc David
Editor(s): Öktem, Kerem; Yosmaoğlu, Ipek Kocaömer
Date: 2022
Topics: Memory, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: This chapter looks at the novel historical claim that Turkey had played a major role rescuing Jews from the Holocaust. This brash claim ignored the fact that Turkish diplomats in Europe had systematically stripped Turkish Jews of their citizenship, or refused to recognize them as citizens. Turkey did not take the opportunity to save tens of thousands of Jewish citizens in Europe from the Nazi reign of terror, instead condemning thousands of them to miserable deaths in the camps. Discounting these inconvenient truths, Jews and Muslims promoted the narrative of Turkish rescue of Jews. The claim was promoted by the Turkish Foreign Ministry working together with Jewish historians outside of Turkey and was explicitly linked to denying recognition of the Armenian genocide. According to this view, genocide is an if/then proposition: if one accepts the fable that Turks and Jews have lived in peace and brotherhood for five hundred years, as opposed to the historical record which narrates a completely different story, then one trusts that Turks could not possibly have perpetrated a genocide against the Armenians.
Creating [Jewish] Sites of Memory in Turkey Where Jews No Longer Exist: From Physical Sites to Virtual Ones
Author(s): Fishman, Louis
Editor(s): Öktem, Kerem; Yosmaoğlu, Ipek Kocaömer
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish Heritage, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Memory
Abstract: This chapter focuses on how the memory of Jews in Turkey is being constructed through the refurbishing of synagogues in areas of Turkey where Jews no longer exist. Some of these projects are carried out by agencies of the central state, others by local municipalities. More recently, the memory of Jews is also being constructed through historical surveys of the Jewish community, which are featured on municipal webpages creating virtual sites of memory. Initiatives aimed at bringing the Jewish past alive have also been launched by independent individuals such as architects and artists, contributing to a growing, if contested and fragmented sphere of Jewish memory in Turkey.
Quantifying Polish Anti-semitism in Twitter: A Robust Unsupervised Approach with Signal Processing
Author(s): Chew, Peter A.
Editor(s): Yang, Zining; von Briesen, Elizabeth
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Discourse, Social Media, Methodology, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Anti-Semitism has long been a controversial topic in Poland, and remains so to the present day. Holocaust research continues in Poland today, attempting to face up to the truth about the nature and extent of any Polish complicity with the Nazis in the persecution and massacre of Jews during World War II. But such research faces significant headwinds in various forms, including popular Polish nationalism as well as the passage in 2018 by the current Polish nationalist government of a law against defaming the ‘Polish nation’ in connection with the Holocaust. A recent court case against a Poland-based Holocaust researcher again brought this to the fore, lighting up the Polish Twittersphere with chatter on the topic. In this paper, we set out to analyze this chatter, to shed light – not on any past Polish anti-Semitism – but on present-day Polish attitudes. Along the way, we argue that unsupervised techniques from signal processing are the ideal tool for wading into such a politically and emotionally charged topic. Such techniques simply reflect, in condensed and quantifiable form, what is in the data. It is then up to the human analyst to draw the appropriate conclusions.
Lagebild. Antisemitismus 2020/21
Translated Title: Situation report. Antisemitism 2020/21
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Monitoring, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Antisemitism: Far right, Antisemitism: Israel-Related, Antisemitism: Muslim, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Aus dem Inhalt:

Einleitung
Antisemitismus in der Gegenwart
Antisemitismus im Rechtsextremismus
Antisemitismus im Phänomenbereich „Reichsbürger“ und „Selbstverwalter“
Antisemitismus im Islamismus
Antisemitismus im auslandsbezogenen Extremismus
Antisemitismus im Linksextremismus
Bewertung
Contested identities: interpreting and representing medieval Jewish History in Bristol
Author(s): Griffiths, Toni
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish Heritage, Jewish History, History, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: In the late 1980s, a potentially significant site with links to the city’s medieval Jews was discovered in Bristol. The site has ‘Scheduled Monument’ status, granted by Historic England, and has been described as a ritual bath, ranging from mikveh to bet tohorah. This paper takes an interdisciplinary approach, discussing the complexities of interpreting the monument, its authenticity, and significance to the memory of local medieval Jewish history. This paper highlights utilises the historical narrative of the site and the roles of multiple stakeholders to frame wider considerations of prominent issues concerning identity, authority and ownership.
The Journey Home Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past
Editor(s): Clark, David; von Sommaruga Howard, Teresa
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Survivors: Children of, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Oral History and Biography
Abstract: The Journey Home is an engrossing anthology of twenty essays. Each one tells a different story about what it means to grow up in the shadow of the Holocaust and then to find a way of breaking free of the residual darkness of childhood by making a physical and emotional journey back into the past, to the «home» of one’s ancestors: the «home» they were forced to physically leave.

Some of these journeys are undertaken with a parent. Others are undertaken with friends or partners and some venture back alone. Along the way, new connections are forged with the living and with the dead, with the past and with the present.

Together with an introduction and epilogue, the book provides not only examples of the lived experience of being «second generation» but also offers some theoretical background to the stories and relates them to current and important themes, such as the role of acknowledgement, memorialization and commemoration. With eighty million people around the world currently displaced by disaster, war and famine, many of these stories speak for descendants of refugees and survivors of all such catastrophes.
Антисемітизм в Україні. Звіт за 2021 рік
Translated Title: Anti-Semitism in Ukraine Report for 2021
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Monitoring, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Проблеми Формування Європейської Культури Історичної Пам’яті В Україні: Голокост, Декомунізація,українсько-польські «війни Пам’яті»
Translated Title: Problems of Formation of European Culture of Historical Memory in Ukraine: Holocaust, Decommunization, Ukrainian-Polish “Memory Wars”
Author(s): Латиш, Юрій
Editor(s): Astramovich-Leik, T.; Turchyn, Ya.; Horbach, O.
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, Post-1989, Holocaust Commemoration
Abstract: Проаналізовано значення поняття «культура історичної пам’яті», розглянуто історію її формування у Західній Європі, особливості ландшафту пам’яті у Східній Європі та Україні, визначено ключові питання історичної політики України, які мають потенціал перешкодити європейській інтеграції України. Внаслідок проведеного дослідження встановлено, що Україна належить до східноєвропейського регіону історичної пам’яті, якому притаманні етатизм, єдність та героїчність, віктимність, сек’юритизація. На шляху до європейської інтеграції перед Україною поставатимуть проблеми піднесення ролі Голокосту в історичній пам’яті та визнання часткової відповідальності за злочини колаборантів, обмеження регулювання з боку держави історичної сфери, українсько-польських історичних конфліктів. Водночас може відбуватися дифузія західноєвропейської та східноєвропейської моделей пам’яті.
Whistling to the Right Publics? AUR’s Doublespeak in Reaction to Antisemitism Allegations
Author(s): Marincea, Adina
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Discourse, Antisemitism: Far right, Antisemitism: Secondary Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Political Parties
Abstract: Romania has proved to be no outlier in the ongoing trend of mainstream-ization of far-right and neo-fascist politics and discourses, despite the optimistic outlook that many shared not long ago. AUR marked a historical success, being the first “radical return” political formation to gain seats in Parliament after 1989. As a result, a process of accelerated normalization of the far-right discourse is taking place, moving the political spectrum further to the (extreme) right, while also rehabilitating historical figures that played a significant role in the Holocaust. The present paper draws on Discourse Historical Analysis and concepts such as “calculated ambivalence” and “dog-whistle politics” to unpack the coded meanings and whistles entwined in the discursive provocations and reactions of AUR’s leader, George Simion. Starting from AUR’s press release from January 2022, minimizing the Holocaust, which set in motion the “right-wing populist perpetuum mobile”, I analyze the main discursive strategies, both confrontational and submissive, used by Simion in his effort to “dog-whistle” to AUR’s ultranationalist supporters, while at the same time denying allegations of antisemitism, Holocaust minimization, and fascist sympathies. For a qualitative measure of the success or failure of these strategies, a complementary critical analysis of the reactions of some of the most prominent antisemitic ultranationalist voices in Romania is carried out. Is Simion a skillful “dog-whistler” or a “traitor”? The study shows that there is a thin and fluid line between the two.
A Jewish Renaissance? Reflections on Jewish Life in East Central Europe since 1989
Author(s): Miller, Michael L.
Editor(s): Blumenthal, Rachel; Herskowitz, Daniel M.; Mayerhofer, Kerstin
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish Revival, Post-1989
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice
Author(s): Manca, Stefania
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Education, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Social Media
Abstract: This study takes a social-technical systems approach to investigate how national and transnational memory of the Holocaust are intertwined on the social media profiles of a set of Italian museums and memorials. We examine how Italy’s four most important Holocaust museums and memorials use social media as ecosystems to provide historical content and engage their audiences in digital remembrance about the Holocaust on four social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Results show that posts on Facebook led to a higher volume of interactivity and positive responses than posts on the other platforms, while user activity in terms of creating new posts remains low on all four platforms. The four institutions tend to address a national audience and interweave transnational Holocaust memorial themes with distinctively national ones. Although the examined social media profiles demonstrate that museums and memorials are reliable sources of historical and trustworthy information through which they shape memory ecologies, their use reflects a conservational attitude, with a preference for a target audience over the age of 25, expressed both in the choice of platforms adopted and in the mostly one-way communication approach employed. The paper outlines implications for further social media practice in Digital Holocaust Memory.
Der israelbezogene Antisemitismus und die Gratwanderung einer nicht-antisemitischen ‚Israelkritik‘ – Versuch einer demokratietheoretischen Mediation
Translated Title: Israel-centered antisemitism and the challenge of a non-antisemitic criticism of Israel: a mediation on the grounds of democratic theory
Author(s): Hidalgo, Oliver
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Israel-Related, Attitudes to Israel, Democracy, Antisemitism: Definitions, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Abstract: Die wichtige Debatte um den israelbezogenen Antisemitismus ist aktuell in eine Sackgasse geraten. Um zur Versachlichung der wissenschaftlich-öffentlichen Diskussion beizutragen, schlägt der vorliegende Artikel eine Differenzierung von subjektiv bewussten und unbewussten antisemitischen Ressentiments vor und bettet diese Unterscheidung in ein demokratietheoretisches Argument ein. Vor dem Hintergrund eines Demokratiebegriffs, der die komplexe Koexistenz von Einheit und Pluralität in demokratischen Gesellschaften ebenso impliziert wie das grundsätzliche Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Religion und Volksherrschaft, wird es dabei nicht nur möglich, den Staat Israel in nicht-antisemitischer Weise als jüdisches Kollektiv zu reflektieren, sondern auch einschlägige Aporien im Nahostkonflikt zu veranschaulichen. Auf dieser Basis erfolgt eine ausgewogene Auseinandersetzung mit dem von Kritiker:innen lancierten Apartheidvorwurfs gegenüber der israelischen Regierung sowie eine Einschätzung der palästinensischen Boykottbewegung BDS.
Antimuslimische und antisemitische Einstellungen im Einwanderungsland – (k)ein Einzelfall?
Translated Title: Anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic attitudes in the immigration country – (not) an isolated case?
Author(s): Friedrichs, Nils; Storz, Nora
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Integration, Immigration, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Antimuslimische und antisemitische Einstellungen in Deutschland sind seit Jahren Gegenstand der öffentlichen wie politischen Debatte. Sie stören das gesellschaftliche Zusammenleben. In jüngster Zeit wurden zudem mehr derartig politisch motivierte Straftaten registriert. Die Studie zeigt, dass antimuslimische und antisemitische Einstellungen keine Randphänomene sind. Sie sind sowohl bei Menschen mit als auch ohne Migrationshintergrund verbreitet. Dabei hängen sie – das zeigt die Auswertung von Daten des SVR-Integrationsbarometers 2020 – vor allem mit Merkmalen wie der Bildungsbiografie, interkulturellen Kontakten und der sozialen Schicht oder etwa Diskriminierungserfahrungen und Religionszugehörigkeit zusammen. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat der wissenschaftliche Stab des SVR Handlungsempfehlungen für die (Integrations-)Politik entwickelt und dabei insbesondere auch die Möglichkeiten auf kommunaler Ebene, in Bildungseinrichtungen und Religionsgemeinschaften in Betracht gezogen.
Antisemitismus unter Muslim*innen oder „muslimischer Antisemitismus“? Zur Frage der konzeptionellen Fassung eines gesellschaftlichen Problems
Translated Title: Antisemitism among Muslims or “Muslim antisemitism”? On the question of conceptualizing a social problem
Author(s): Klevesath, Lino
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Muslim, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Auswirkungen des Gaza-Krieges 2021 auf Deutschland: eine mehrdimensionale Analyse des Radikalisierungsgeschehens
Translated Title: Impact of the 2021 Gaza War on Germany: A multidimensional analysis of radicalization
Author(s): Richter, Thomas; Brettfeld, Katrin; Greipl, Simon; Hohner, Julian; Hunger, Sophia; Kanol, Eylem; El Masri, Mirna; Wetzels, Peter
Editor(s): Kemmesies, Uwe; Wetzels, Peter; Austin, Beatrix; Büscher, Christian; Dessecker, Axel; Grande, Edgar; Rieger, Dian
Date: 2022
Topics: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Antisemitism: Israel-Related, Conflict, War, Hate crime, Antisemitism: Discourse, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Der Gaza-Krieg vom Mai 2021 hatte deutlich messbare Auswirkungen auf das Radikalisierungsgeschehen in Deutschland. Mit dem im MOTRA-Verbund zur Verfügung stehenden Instrumentarium werden in diesem Beitrag zum ersten Mal die Rückwirkungen eines Ereignisses, das außerhalb Deutschlands stattgefunden hat, dargestellt. Dabei können folgende Beobachtungen gemacht werden: Diskurse auf sozialen Medien sind in Deutschland weniger propalästinensisch als im Rest der Welt, dabei positionieren sich rechte Gruppen inzwischen mehrheitlich proisraelisch. Die Gewalteskalation zwischen Israelis und Palästinenser*innen hat im Mai 2021 zu einem deutlichen Anstieg von konfrontativem und gewaltförmigem Protest und antisemitischer Hasskriminalität geführt. Zudem können die Ereignisse in Nahost auch als Ursache für zumindest kurzfristig angestiegene antisemitische Einstellungen auf der individuellen Ebene identifiziert werden.
Anti-Semitism, Tolerance and Historical Memory in the Post-Soviet Space
Translated Title: Антисемитизм, толерантность и историческая память на постсоветском пространстве
Editor(s): Ben Yakov, Haim
Date: 2022
Topics: Post-1989, Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Surveys, Antisemitism: Attitude Surveys, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Memory
Abstract: The Institute of Euro-Asian Jewish Studies, operating under the auspices of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, has published a monographic issue. It includes articles by prominent scientists from Russia, Ukraine and Israel, which examine the problems of anti-Semitism, tolerance and historical memory in the post-Soviet space. T
Kritik des Antisemitismus heute
Translated Title: Criticism of antisemitism today
Author(s): Grigat, Stephan
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Anti-Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Terrorism
Abstract: Ausgehend von Grundüberlegungen zu einer Kritischen Theorie des Antisemitismus werden Unterschiede von Rassismus und Antisemitismus skizziert, Gegenkonzepte zu antisemitischen Reaktionsweisen diskutiert und Ausprägungen des Antisemitismus in der politischen Rechten und Linken beschrieben. Vor diesem Hintergrund
werden zentrale Varianten des Antizionismus als geopolitische Reproduktion des Antisemitismus analysiert und in ihrer Genese in der Zeit vor der israelischen Staatsgründung dargestellt. Der islamische Antisemitismus wird überblicksartig hinsichtlich historischer und gegenwärtiger islamistischer Akteure wie der Muslimbruderschaft und
des „Islamischen Staates“ untersucht, um davon ausgehend den aktuellen Antisemitismus des iranischen Regimes anhand der Reaktionen der Führung in Teheran auf die Covid 19-Pandemie zu illustrieren. Die durch das iranische Regime geschaffene, aus der Kombination eines eliminatorischen Antizionismus mit dem Streben nach
der Technologie der Massenvernichtung resultierende spezifische Bedrohungssituation wird als eine zentrale Herausforderung für eine praktische Kritik des Antisemitismus ausgewiesen, um abschließend eine Antisemitismusforschung einzufordern, die jegliche Ausprägung des globalen Antisemitismus umfasst und in der Lage
ist, eine Gewichtung der Gefahren vorzunehmen, die von den jeweiligen antisemitischen Akteuren
in aktuellen politischen Konstellationen ausgehen.
„Keine schwerwiegenden Vorfälle“ – Deutungen von Antisemitismus durch pädagogische Teams an Gedenkstätten zu ehemaligen Konzentrationslagern
Translated Title: „No serious incidents“ – interpretations of anti-Semitism by pedagogical teams at memorials of former concentration camps
Author(s): Chernivsky, Marina; Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Education against, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Education, Interviews, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Educational Tours, Schools: Non-Jewish, Students
Abstract: An Gedenkstätten zu ehemaligen Konzentrationslagern konkretisiert sich die Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, die gesellschaftlich, institutionell und familienbiografisch weiterwirkt. In diesem Artikel werden ausgewählte Befunde aus einer qualitativen Studie zu Antisemitismus vorgestellt, die auf Gruppendiskussionen mit pädagogischen Teams an vier Gedenkstätten zu ehemaligen Konzentrationslagern basieren. Neben der Schilderung von antisemitischen Situationen und pädagogischen Ansätzen unternehmen die Studienteilnehmer:innen den Versuch einer Einordnung ihres Arbeitsfeldes in Bezug auf Antisemitismus. Beschrieben wird ein „Fantasiefeld“, das in der gesellschaftlichen Rezeption von Gedenkstätten entstehe. Die Orte und die damit verbundenen historischen Ereignisse würden nicht als mehrheitsgesellschaftliches, sondern als primär jüdisches Thema assoziiert, das in der Gegenwart durch Juden:Jüdinnen vermittelt werde. Insgesamt verweist die Studie auf die Notwendigkeit eines strukturellen Antisemitismusverständnisses und einer umfassenden Reflexion über soziale Konstellationen in der Gedenkstättenpädagogik der postnationalsozialistischen Gesellschaft.
Von Antisemitismus betroffen sein: Deutungen und Umgangsweisen jüdischer Familien und junger Erwachsener
Translated Title: Being affected by antisemitism: Interpretations and approaches of Jewish families and young adults
Author(s): Chernivsky, Marina; Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike; Schweitzer, Johanna
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Education against, Family and Household, Jewish Children In Mainstream Schools, Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Schools: Non-Jewish, Jewish Pupils
Abstract: Antisemitismus im Bildungswesen reicht von der Annahme der Nicht-Präsenz von Jüdinnen und Juden bis hin zu verbalen Übergriffen und physischer Gewalt. Vieles davon bleibt für das nichtjüdische Umfeld weitgehend unsichtbar, auch innerhalb von Schulen. Vor diesem Hintergrund fokussiert das Buch Erfahrungen von jüdischen Jugendlichen und ihren Familien und fragt, wie Antisemitismus im schulischen Kontext wahrgenommen, eingeordnet und bewältigt wird.
Comparative analysis of the Hasidic pilgrimage effects upon the local frames of memory in Poland and Ukraine
Author(s): Marchenko, Alla
Date: 2022
Topics: Memorial, Main Topic: Other, Pilgrimage, Hassidim, Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Attitudes to Jews, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations
„Nikomu to nehovor“: Rodinné tajomstvá, pocit neistoty a navigovanie „odlišnosti“ u židovskej minority na Slovensku
Translated Title: “Don’t Tell Anyone”: Family Secrets, Sense of Uncertainty, and Navigating “Otherness” Among the Jewish Minority in Slovakia
Author(s): Očková, Katarina
Date: 2022
Topics: Family and Household, Age and Generational Issues, Holocaust Survivors: Grandchildren of, Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Survivors: Children of, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Ethnography
Abstract: Many young Slovak Jews, belonging to the third post-war generation, learned about their Jewishness only later in their lives, when outer triggers – whether a classmate’s comment or a history lesson about the Holocaust – raised questions to which they received unexpected answers at home. This study focuses on family secrets and their productivity, and on social taboos on information about Jewish descent, in the context of perceived insecurity across three generations of Slovak Jews. Exploring how young people discovered their Jewishness and how it was presented to them by their closest kin – who had previously kept it secret from them – along with the warning not to tell anyone about it, this study shows the formative power of this information for a sense of self, as well as for their relations to others. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the Jewish community in Bratislava, the author shows how contemporary young Jews – the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors – navigate their uncovered family secret, and how they negotiate the disruption in the continuity of their life stories and the intergenerational transmission of uncertainty and mistrust, which encourages the use of strategies of careful concealment of “otherness”, affecting their everyday life and relationships.
Sedem (židovských) problémov: Sociálna kultúra židovskej komunity z pohľadu etnológie
Translated Title: Seven (Jewish) Problems: The Social Culture of the Jewish Community from the Perspective of Ethnology
Author(s): Salner, Peter
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Culture, Post-1989, Post-War Jewish History, Holocaust, Migration
Abstract: Autor v siedmich kapitolách svojej knihy na základe svojich dlhodobých výskumov prezentuje odborný, ale aj osobný pohľad na vybrané problémy súčasnej židovskej komunity na Slovensku.

Rozsiahly priestor venuje spôsobom, akým táto komunita reflektovala dva totalitné systémy (holokaust, obdobie komunistickej moci). Všíma si tiež špecifiku etnologických výskumov, dobrovoľné aj násilím vynútené migračné procesy, osudy opustených synagóg a cintorínov, či fenomén „židovského času“. Záverečné časti knihy sú zamerané na problémy sociálnej kultúry (vývoj identity, židovská rodina, humor). Výsledkom je etnologický pohľad na stav židovskej komunity v 20.-21. storočí a perspektívy jej ďalšieho vývoj.
Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial, and Germany’s Far Right: How the AfD Tiptoes around Nazism
Author(s): Kahn, Michelle Lynn
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Far right, Holocaust Denial, Political Parties, Politics, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Islamophobia
Abstract: This article examines antisemitism and Holocaust denial in contemporary Far-Right German politics with a focus on the party Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD). The article argues that the AfD has attempted to ‘tiptoe around Nazism’—a phrase coined by the author, which describes how the party has strategically and haphazardly reacted to scandals as they arise in order to avoid being associated with Nazism and losing moderate voters. The first section investigates how the AfD has reacted to various internal scandals that have damaged its reputation. This analysis encompasses the party’s fraught relationship to the Islamophobic, anti-refugee organization PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamicization of the Occident) as well as the ‘Höcke Affair,’ in which prominent AfD leader Björn Höcke denigrated the Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe as a ‘monument of shame.’ The second section examines the AfD’s proactive attempts to tiptoe around Nazism by portraying itself as philosemitic and pro-Israel and courting Jewish voters as part of its controversial subgroup Jews in the AfD (Juden in der AfD, JAfD). Here it explains how JAfD members, particularly Jews who immigrated to Germany from the former Soviet Union, have rationalized their paradoxical support for this outwardly antisemitic and denialist party. The conclusion situates the AfD in the broader transatlantic context of Far-Right extremism, highlighting trends that may signal—yet, more likely, will fail to bring about—the party’s demise.
Antisemitism as a Field of Political Action
Author(s): Salzborn, Samuel
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Anti-Antisemitism, Government, Policy
Abstract: Combating antisemitism is a young policy field with regard to structured state action. The article presents the relevance of combating antisemitism and its emergence as a decided state task in order to show exemplarily, using the Berlin model of combating antisemitism as an example, how it is concretely implemented in state action. Berlin is chosen for three reasons: First, the state of Berlin is the first and only federal state to have a cross-departmental concept for combating antisemitism. Second, the Berlin model is based on integrative cooperation between state and civil society agencies. Third, looking at Berlin allows for the perspective of interlocking different vertical differentiations of administration, since the state of Berlin is at the same time a large city, which with its twelve districts has administrative dimensions that correspond to those of other large German cities, in each case and in themselves. In the absence of a federal comparative perspective, the focus of the article is descriptive-explorative.
Die Israel-Boykottbewegung BDS und die documenta fifteen
Translated Title: The Israel boycott movement BDS and documenta fifteen
Author(s): Markl, Florian; Feuerherdt, Alex
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Abstract: Wendet man die in gängigen Definitionen von israelbezogenem Antisemitismus mit etablierten Kriterien auf die Israelboykottbewegung an, wird deutlich: Bei BDS handelt es sich um eine antisemitische Kampagne. Indem BDS auf die Beseitigung Israels als jüdischer Staat abzielt, greifen die Boykotteure einen wesentlichen Bestandteil und das wichtigste Zentrum des zeitgenössischen Judentums (in- und außerhalb Israels) an. Der nicht enden wollende Skandal um antisemitische Machwerke auf der Kunstausstellung documenta fifteen in Kassel führt auf besonders eindrückliche Weise vor Augen: Wo BDS-Aktivisten das Sagen haben, ist auch offener Antisemitismus nicht weit.
Postkolonialismus und Antisemitismus
Translated Title: Postcolonialism and anti-Semitism
Author(s): Elbe, Ingo
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism, Social Movements, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Post-Colonial, Universities / Higher Education, Antisemitism: Definitions
Abstract: Postkoloniale und poststrukturalistische antirassistische Theorieansätze gewinnen weltweit einen immer größeren Einfluss an Universitäten, im Politik- und Kulturbetrieb sowie in sozialen Bewegungen. Das Bild, das prominente Vertreterinnen und Vertreter dieser Ansätze dabei von Antisemitismus und Holocaust einerseits, Judentum und Zionismus andererseits zeichnen, weist systematische Verzerrungen und Fehler auf: Unterschiedliche Formen und Radikalitätsgrade der begrifflichen Entspezifizierung oder Verharmlosung von Antisemitismus, der Relativierung der Shoah sowie der Dämonisierung Israels und des Zionismus sind dabei festzustellen. Die folgende Bibliographie bietet einen ersten Überblick über Kritiken an postkolonialen, bzw. postmodern-antirassistischen Deutungen von Antisemitismus, Shoah, Zionismus und Israel. Nicht alle der dabei aufgelisteten Texte sind grundlegende Kritiken an solchen Ansätzen. Manche kritisieren lediglich spezielle, aber signifikante Punkte der postkolonialen und antirassistischen Deutung der oben genannten Themen. Eine Liste mit ausgewählten kritischen Beiträgen zur 2020 begonnenen deutschen Feuilleton-Debatte über postkoloniale Theoretiker wie Achille Mbembe, Michael Rothberg oder Dirk Moses wurde ebenso angefügt wie einige Literaturhinweise zu Kritiken an der Israel-Boykottkampagne BDS, dem prominentesten politischen Bewegungskontext postkolonialer und antirassistisch artikulierter Angriffe auf den jüdischen Staat. Berücksichtigung fanden in Gestalt einer separaten Liste auch Kritiken an der sog. Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, weil diese als wesentlicher Versuch gewertet werden kann, ‚subalterne‘ oder ‚postkoloniale‘ Formen von israelbezogenem Antisemitismus zu verharmlosen.
Opferfantasien Zur Kritik des Antisemitismus in der Querdenken-Bewegung
Translated Title: Victim Fantasies: On the Critique of Antisemitism in the Querdenken Movement
Author(s): Burghardt, Daniel
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism, Social Movements, Coronavirus/Covid, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Der Beitrag unternimmt den Versuch, die sogenannte Querdenken-Bewegung einer expliziten Antisemitismuskritik zu unterziehen. Nach einem kurzen Überblick zum Stand und Potential der empirischen Untersuchungen zur QuerdenkenBewegung werden diese im Kontext der Autoritarismusstudien der Kritischen Theorie betrachtet. Darüber wird eruiert, inwiefern der anti-autoritäre Anstrich der Proteste eine bloße Fassade darstellt und die Teilnehmer:innen als Wiedergänger:innen des autoritären Charakters gelten können. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden schließlich fünf Begründungsmuster der Schuldumkehr beschrieben und als Formen der Selbstviktimisierung extrapoliert. Von diesem sozialpsychologischen Standpunkt aus werden Mechanismen und Funktionsweisen der individuellen und kollektiven psychischen Mehrwertgenerierung im Antisemitismus exemplarisch aufgeführt und einer Kritik unterzogen.
Holocaust Education ohne Antisemitismus
Translated Title: Holocaust Education without Antisemitism
Author(s): Rajal, Elke
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Education against, Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Schools: Non-Jewish
Abstract: Obwohl es unbestritten ist, dass es ohne Antisemitismus keine Shoah gegeben hätte, wird in der zeitgenössischen Vermittlungsarbeit zur Shoah – oft auch Holocaust Education genannt – der Antisemitismus häufig ausgespart oder bildet eine Randnotiz. Der vorliegende Text argumentiert für einen stärkeren Einbezug der Thematik des Antisemitismus in die Holocaust Education, ohne zu behaupten, dass es alleine die Aufgabe von Holocaust Education wäre, Antisemitismuskritik zu vermitteln. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in Debatten rund um den Zusammenhang zwischen Shoah und Antisemitismus werden die mit Holocaust Education verbundenen Ziele kritisch beleuchtet. Danach wird der gegenwärtig eingeräumte Stellenwert von Antisemitismus in der Bildungsarbeit zur Shoah ausgelotet und es werden vor dem Hintergrund der Kritischen Theorie einige Anregungen für die pädagogische Arbeit gegeben. Der Text schließt mit einem Plädoyer für eine schulische sowie außerschulische Vermittlungsarbeit, welche die enge Verklammerung von Shoah und Antisemitismus ernstnimmt, ohne das eine Phänomen auf das andere zu reduzieren.
Contemporary Ashkenazic Hebrew: The Grammatical Profile of an Overlooked Twenty-First-Century Variety
Author(s): Kahn, Lily; Yampolskaya, Sonya
Date: 2022
Topics: Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Hebrew, Main Topic: Other, Language, Yiddish
Abstract: Ashkenazic Hebrew is a unique language variety with a centuries-long history of written use among Central and Eastern European Jews. It has distinct phonological and grammatical features attested in texts composed by Ashkenazic Jews (e.g. adherents of the Hasidic and Maskilic movements) in Europe prior to the twentieth century. While Ashkenazic Hebrew is commonly believed to have been replaced by Israeli Hebrew in the twentieth century, this traditional written variety of the language actually continues to thrive in contemporary Diaspora Haredi (strictly Orthodox) communities, chiefly the Hasidic centres of New York, London, Montreal and Antwerp. This fascinating and understudied form of Hebrew is used widely and productively in the composition of a rich variety of original documents for a Hasidic audience (about e.g. Covid transmission, United States educational stipulations, Zoom schooling, lockdown rules, etc.). In this article we demonstrate that contemporary Ashkenazic Hebrew has many shared orthographic, phonological, grammatical and lexical features with its Eastern European antecedent. These include: orthography of loanwords based on Yiddish conventions (e.g. חולי הקאראנא xóylay ha-koróna ‘those ill with coronavirus’); morphology of plural loan nouns (בקאלידזשעס be-kóleǧes‘in colleges’, הפראגראמע״ן haprográmen ‘the programmes’); retention of the definite article with inseparable prepositions (בהשכונה be-ha-šxíne‘in the neighbourhood’);
Antisemitismen i Stockholms skolor: En rapport om skolpersonal och elevers upplevelser och tankar kring antisemitiska uttryck i sin skolmiljö
Translated Title: Antisemitism in Stockholm's schools: A report on school staff and students' experiences and thoughts about antisemitic expressions in their school environment
Author(s): Wagrell, Kristin
Date: 2022
Topics: Antisemitism: Education against, Schools: Primary / Elementary, Schools: Seconday / High Schools, Schools: Non-Jewish, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Teachers, Surveys, Teaching and Pedagogy, Jewish Students, Interviews
Abstract: Antisemitismen i Stockholms skolor är ett mångbottnat problem. Judiska elever vittnar om språkbruk och handlingar som får dem att känna sig utpekade, stressade och ledsna. Personalen uppvisar också kunskapsluckor vad gäller några av antisemitismens centrala delar. Den här rapporten är en del av ett mer omfattande arbete inom Stockholm stad att motverka antisemitism. I rapporten undersöks förekomsten av antisemitism i Stockholms grundskolor och gymnasieskolor samt hur skolpersonal och judiska elever upplever antisemitismen som ett problem i skolmiljön. Resultaten har tagits fram genom en blandning av kvalitativ och kvantitativ metod. Syftet med undersökningen är att förstå om och hur antisemitismen utgör ett problem i Stockholms grundskolor och gymnasieskolor samt att på basis av resultaten presentera förslag om åtgärder. Undersökningen bidrar också till att identifiera olika områden som staden bör fortsätta undersöka för att få en djupare kunskap om de problem som antisemitismen utgör i skolans värld. Den kvantitativa undersökningen bygger på en enkät om 11 frågor som besvarades av undervisande lärare vid Stockholm stads kommunala grundskolor och gymnasieskolor under perioden november 2021 – februari 2022. Den kvalitativa undersökningen bestod av semistrukturerade intervjuer med skolpersonal (20 personer) samt judiska elever (9 personer). Under intervjuerna fick skolpersonalen svara på frågorna från enkäten och utveckla sina resonemang kring frågeställningarna. De judiska eleverna fick ge sin syn på antisemitismen som problem samt om hur de känner och tänker kring egna och andras erfarenheter av antisemitism.
Yiddish among Former Haredim
Author(s): Benedict, Eliyahu
Date: 2022
Topics: Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Main Topic: Other, Language, Yiddish, Interviews
Abstract: This article examines the use of and attitudes towards Yiddish among former Haredim. Using an interview- and questionnaire-based study, I demonstrate that Yiddish- speaking former Haredim generally have positive attitudes towards the language and continue to use it on a frequent, and even daily, basis while hoping to pass it on to their children. Furthermore, attitudes towards Yiddish develop from being largely practical when respondents were members of Haredi communities to emotional and ideological after having left. However, in the majority of cases the desire to continue using Yiddish regularly and to pass it on to the next generation is in conflict with the practical realities of finding opportunities to do so under increased pressure from the local majority language and a lack of institutional and community support. Overall, I argue that former Haredim have the power to determine the future life, death, or resurrection of secular Yiddish.
New perspectives on anti-Jewish violence and memory
Author(s): Nalewajko, Katarzyna
Date: 2022
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, History, Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, National Identity, Internet
Abstract: This thesis explores the topic of anti-Jewish violence and memory empirically, using three different methods of inquiry. The first chapter employs a deductive approach to study how insurgent presence influences survival of genocide targets. I explore the case of the Holocaust in World War Two France using archival collections on Jews’ arrests and La Résistance members’ presence. I employ an instrumental variable method in which I instrument insurgent presence with soldier deaths from World War One. I probe my findings with qualitative analysis of chosen typical cases in order to investigate the mechanisms that govern the relationship. I find that insurgents helped Jews survive by providing them with information, help networks, and sharing the skills they developed to evade their common enemy, the Nazi occupier and collaborating Vichy state. The second chapter employs an exploratory approach and asks whether Wikipedia captures collective memory. Drawing on anthropological and historical literatures, it proposes a way to operationalise collective memory as actor-role associations and measure it with Wikipedia data. Comparing our findings with the qualitative research on Poles’ collective memory of World War Two, we conclude that Wikipedia serves as a unique data source to describe the content of national collective memories. In the third chapter I review literature on anti-Jewish “pogroms” to establish what the term means. I find considerable disagreement about the definition of the term in extant literature and propose to substitute it with other vocabulary from the wider literature on conflict – “mass categorical violence,” “state repression,” and “communal attacks.” I review two recent studies that used the word “pogroms” when seeking to explain their occurrence. I argue that the proposed typology would better capture the main characteristics of the violence typically called “pogroms” and enable better future sample specification and analyses.
Juive et républicaine : l’école Maïmonide
Translated Title: Jewish and Republican: The Maimonides School
Author(s): Voignac, Joseph
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish History, Jewish Schools, Main Topic: Education, Oral History and Biography
Abstract: Dans une démarche à la fois historique et sociologique, l’ouvrage retrace l’histoire de l’école Maïmonide, une école qui allie éducation républicaine et éducation juive.
Cette école a vu le jour dans la région parisienne en 1935. Elle a alors traversé les traumatismes et les bouleversements qui ont agité la vie et l’identité des Juifs en France tout au long du XXe siècle. Elle a vu passer des personnalités aussi différentes qu’Elie Wiesel, Serge Klarsfeld, Daniel Sibony ou Daniel Cohn-Bendit dont la mère y a été intendante.
Aujourd’hui encore, elle poursuit le projet de transmettre à la fois une éducation républicaine et une éducation juive.
L’auteur, ancien élève de « Maïmo », a voulu en savoir plus sur sa propre école. Pour cela, il s’est plongé dans les archives et est parti à la recherche de témoignages écrits ou oraux afin de faire revivre ce qui semblait être au départ une pure utopie.