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“Jewface” and “Jewfaçade” in Poland, Spain, and Birobidzhan

Editor(s): Valman, Nadia; Roth, Laurence

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Culture, Jewish Heritage, Attitudes to Jews, Memory, Memorial, Tourism

Abstract: A “Jew-themed” restaurant provides its patrons with broad-brimmed black hats with foot-long sidecurls to wear, and the menu has no prices; patrons must bargain, or “Jew,” the staﬀ down. A play billed as a tribute to a lost Jewish community ends in a gag: Death throws back his shroud to reveal an open-brain-pate wig, à la the horror ﬂick Nightmare on Elm Street. In a “traditional Jewish wedding dance,” “Jewish wealth” is represented by a local luxury: vacuum-packed juice boxes. In parts of the world where Jews, once populous, have nearly vanished because of oppression, forced exile, and genocide, non-Jews now strive to re-enact what has been lost. In this essay, I will consider three general cases of what I term “Jewface” minstrelsy and “Jewfaçade” display, in Krakow, Poland; the village of Hervás in western Spain; and Birobidzhan, capital city of Russia’s far-eastern Jewish Autonomous Region, which is known as Birobidzhan as well. Jewface-resembling the “blackface” prevalent in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-is the practice of music, dance, theatre, and/or extra-theatrical types of performance, primarily by non-Jews, intended to convey notions of historical Jewish life and culture. Jewfaçade involves architectural and decorative constructions, again mainly by nonJews, meant to evoke ideas of the Jew in similar ways. Ruth Ellen Gruber, the team of Daniela Flesler and Adrian Pérez Melgosa, and other journalists and scholars have documented what Michael Brenner has called “Jewish culture without Jews” in Poland and Spain, as well as elsewhere in Europe (Brenner 1997: 152). However, no comparative study has been made, and no scholar has approached this topic with regard to Birobidzhan. I will provide brief overviews of Jewface and Jewfaçade activities in Krakow, Hervás, and Birobidzhan. I will then demonstrate the ways in which the notions of the ﬁgure of the Jew and of local Jewish history are performed, or acted out in these three comparative geographical contexts. These cases, as, in conclusion, I will argue, represent three very diﬀerent approaches to public memory and memorialization with regard to the Jew, and perhaps in regard to troubled historical legacies more generally.

«Свое» и «чужое» в современном российском городе: еврейская сакральная география

Author(s): Носенко-Штейн, Елена

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Jewish Community, Cities and Suburbs, Jewish Space, Synagogues, Religious Belief, Religious Observance and Practice, Interviews

La France malade du conflit israelo-palestinien

Author(s): Boniface, Pascal

Date: 2014

Topics: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Criticism, Main Topic: Other

Abstract: Le conflit israélo-palestinien a fait une victime supplémentaire : la société française. Celle-ci est rongée de l'intérieur par cette guerre lointaine qui est devenue l'un des sujets qui divisent le plus les Français. Les juifs français craignent un développement de l'antisémitisme qui les met en danger. Ils ont peur. D'autres Français estiment que l'antisémitisme est plus nettement combattu par les pouvoirs publics et les médias que les autres formes de racisme et de discrimination. Le fossé s'élargit entre ces deux perceptions,divisant les familles, séparant les amis, rendant trop souvent les fréquentations impossibles entre ceux qui ne sont pas d'accord sur ces points.

Holokauszt oktatás Magyarországon: javaslatok az új kiállítás szempontjaira

Translated Title: Holocaust education in Hungary: Suggestions for aspects of the new exhibition

Author(s): Kovács, Mónika

Date: 2014

Topics: Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Education

Abstract: A tanulmány a „Sorsok Háza – Európai oktatási Központ” szakmai tartalmáért felelős Középés Kelet-Európai Történelem és Társadalom Kutatásáért Közalapítvány megbízásából készült

Lingon och potatis, Stockholm och Czernowitz: Materialiteter i en judinnas levnadsberättelse

Translated Title: Lingonberries and potatoes, Stockholm and Czernowitz: Materials in a Jew's life story

Author(s): Nylund Skog, Susanne

Editor(s): Ek-Nilsson, Katarina; Meurling, Birgitta

Date: 2014

Topics: Artefacts and Material Culture, Interviews, Food, Immigration, Main Topic: Other, Memory, Oral History and Biography

Osynligt förtryck och vita kroppar. Förhandlingar kring judiskhet i Sverige

Translated Title: Invisible oppression and white bodies. Negotiations on Judaism in Sweden

Author(s): Nylund Skog, Susanne

Date: 2014

Topics: Interviews, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Race

Abstract: The majority of the approximately 20,000 Swedish Jews are not immediately recognisable as Jews, and pass as ordinary Swedes. In this article, with inspiration from Critical Whiteness Studies, this invisibility is analysed in terms of whiteness. Critical Whiteness Studies argue that in postcolonial societies, such as Sweden, whiteness functions as a taken-for-granted norm that regulates who is regarded as white and Swedish. The aim of the article is to investigate the consequences of the norms of whiteness for Jewish life in contemporary Swedish society. From a large body of material on Jewish life in Sweden two interviews have been selected for analysis.

The article argues that the practices of passing as white demand skills and knowledge about how and when it is suitable and adequate to expose or hide being Jewish. The interviewees find the category ‘Swedish’ far too limited to encapsulate Jewish life in all its forms. Their engagement in the practices of passing as white shows that Swedish contemporary society is imbued with colonial imaginary reproduction norms of whiteness.

The intricacies of education about the Holocaust in Poland. Ten years after the Jedwabne debate, what can Polish school students learn about the Holocaust in history classes?

Author(s): Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Jolanta; Szuchta, Robert

Date: 2014

Topics: Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Teaching and Pedagogy

Abstract: In many European countries, disparities have grown between history and the memory of the Holocaust. Debates on Polish–Jewish relations during the Holocaust and empirical studies in the field of education reveal that there is a gap between research and education. The emphasis in this paper is on the content of new history textbooks published after the 2008 educational reforms in Poland.

Isolated islands? Memory of the Holocaust in formal and informal education. The case study of post-communist Poland

Author(s): Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Jolanta; Büttner, Elisabeth

Date: 2014

Topics: Holocaust Education, Attitudes to Jews, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, Youth

Abstract: The conflicts associated with the memory of the Holocaust in Poland reflect educational gaps in the Polish education system (lack of bad memory). Comparison with other similar studies in Europe and beyond allows one to reveal affinities and divergences in patterns of behaviour in various states in relation to the historical past, social identity and collective memory. This text looks at the consciousness of young Poles, in terms of attitudes toward Jews, the Holocaust and memory of the Holocaust. The data presented are the preliminary results of the author’s longitudinal study “Attitudes of Young Poles toward the Jews and the Holocaust”. Quantitative and qualitative studies include field studies and participant observation of educational projects in Tykocin, Treblinka, Warsaw, Lublin, Bodzentyn and Kielce. The number and scope of initiatives in Poland attempting to bring back the memory of Jewish neighbours indicate that civic institutions and individuals are intensifying their efforts toteach their fellow citizens about the Holocaust, however their impact should be assessed in detail.

Meandry pamięci i niepamięci Holokaustu : konieczność ewaluacji praktyk edukacyjnych w oparciu o badania empiryczne

Translated Title: Meanders of memory and non-memory of the Holocaust : a need to evaluate educational practice empirically

Author(s): Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Jolanta

Editor(s): Dąbrowicz, Anna; Muras, Barbara

Date: 2014

Topics: Holocaust Education, Evaluation, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory

Antisemitismus und Einstellungen zum Holocaust. Empirische Untersuchungen in Polen

Translated Title: Anti-Semitism and attitudes to the Holocaust. Empirical examinations in Poland

Author(s): Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Jolanta

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration

Antisemitische Vorurteile und die Dynamik des Antisemitismus im postkommunistischen Ungarn

Translated Title: Anti-Semitic prejudices and the dynamics of anti-Semitism in post-communist Hungary

Author(s): Kovács, András

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism

Antisemitismus in Spanien. Ein religiös begründeter Antijudaismus?

Translated Title: Antisemitism in Spain. A religiously based anti-Judaism?

Author(s): Menny, Anna

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Christianity

Anti-antisemitischer Enthusiasmus und selektiver Philo-semitismus. Geert Wilders, die PVV und die Juden

Translated Title: Anti-anti-Semitic enthusiasm and selective philosemitism. Geert Wilders, the PVV and the Jews

Author(s): Gans, Evelien

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Philosemitism, Islamophobia, Politics

Vorstellungen von jüdischer Macht, Manipulation und Verschwörung im aktuellen Antisemitismus in Schweden

Translated Title: Concepts of Jewish power, manipulation and conspiracy in current anti-Semitism in Sweden

Author(s): Bachner, Henrik

Date: 2014

Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism

Gedenken an Holocaust und Antisemitismus in Litauen. Die Kehrseite der Erinnerung an den Zweiten Weltkrieg

Translated Title: Commemoration of the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism in Lithuania. The downside of remembering World War II

Author(s): Malinauskaite, Gintare

Date: 2014

Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Holocaust Commemoration

Antizionismus und Antisemitismus in Großbritannien

Translated Title: Anti-Zionism and antisemitism in Britain

Author(s): Feldman, David

Date: 2014

Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism

Antisemitismus in Osterreich heute. Kontinuitäten, Transformationen und Verlagerungen

Translated Title: Anti-Semitism in Austria today. Continuities, transformations and relocations

Author(s): Reiter, Margit

Date: 2014

Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism

Antisemitismus im heutigen Europa. Die Erscheinungs-formen, die Konflikte

Translated Title: Anti-Semitism in Europe today. The manifestations, the conflicts

Author(s): Bergmann, Werner

Date: 2014

Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism

Еврейская община Калининградской области как фактор развития отношений Израиля с регионом

Translated Title: The Jewish Community of Kaliningrad Area As a Factor of Development of Israel’s Relations with the Region

Author(s): Якимова, E. A.

Date: 2014

Topics: Jewish Community, Main Topic: Other, Restitution and Reparations, Israel Advocacy, Israel-Diaspora Relations

Abstract: Автор статьи, придерживаясь историко-сравнительного метода исследования, изучает процесс формирования общины и вопросы сохранения ее наследия на современном этапе развития отношений. Выявлена специфика экономических, политических, культурных и образовательных связей еврейского государства и Калининграда. Рассматриваются усилия сторон в деле сохранения исторической памяти о трагедии в Пальмникен, исследуются материалы современных периодических изданий еврейской общины Калининградской области, анализируются результаты проведения Дней культуры Израиля и
совместного бизнес-форума в Калининграде. Сделаны выводы о мотивах, побуждающих стороны развивать взаимодействие. Представлены прогнозы относительно будущих контактов Израиля и Калининградской области.

Holocaust education in British society and culture

Author(s): Critchell, Kara

Date: 2014

Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Memorials, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Schools: Non-Jewish

Abstract: Moving away from traditional encounters with Holocaust education in academic research this study explores the role of Holocaust education in the construction and mediation of British historical consciousness of the Holocaust. Following contextual explorations of the role of two of the most dominant symbols to have emerged within the field of Holocaust education since the establishment of the National Curriculum, the Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau, this study closely analyses the way in which each of these Holocaust icons has been represented and utilised within educational programmes promoted by the Holocaust Educational Trust. It is shown that the educational representations of these symbols contribute to the domestication of Holocaust consciousness within a British narrative, reinforcing positive interpretations of British national identity and the benefits of liberal democracy whilst, simultaneously, distancing the crimes committed during the Holocaust from the British public through representing these acts as the very antithesis of what is deemed to be British. Through such analysis it is demonstrated that Holocaust education, as it exists in Britain today, reflects the British context in which it has evolved whilst illustrating how it has also fundamentally been shaped by this same context. Whilst considering the ways in which these representations both reflect and shape understandings of the Holocaust this study also illustrates that the Holocaust as it exists in popular consciousness, and educational programmes, is being increasingly unmoored from its historical context as the iconic symbols associated with it are becoming gradually dehistoricised as a means of providing relevant “lessons” for contemporary society. As Holocaust educators reach a crossroads in their field and prepare to decide the future shape British Holocaust education will assume this research constitutes a timely contribution to existing knowledge and understanding of how the Holocaust is encountered within the educational sphere and within British society and culture.

Means of transport and storage: suitcases and other containers for the memory of migration and displacement

Author(s): Schlör, Joachim

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Museums, Jewish Heritage, Immigration, Holocaust, Memory, Oral History and Biography

Abstract: Several exhibitions in recent years – in the ‘Deutsches Auswandererhaus’ Bremerhaven and other museums in Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States – have used suitcases (and ‘the suitcase’) as a central symbol and metaphor for the migration process. Based on a variety of examples, the article discusses the idea and the use of memory containers – and their function as archives – in the context of emigration, transmigration, and immigration. Suitcases are the most obvious material objects relating to these processes and the connected cultural practices. They are concrete objects, but beyond that they have been used as symbols and metaphors for the experience of travel and of dislocation. Suitcases often contained, and therefore are connected to, other items of memory storage: photographs and personal documents (letters, diaries about the migration experience – documents that have been termed, in a different context, ‘Schreibakte auf der Schwelle’ – acts of writing on the threshold); manuscripts, farewell letters (written on the boat, in border stations, in port cities), memorial and yizkor books, songs and poems, self-drawn maps which show the stations of the journey. An analysis of such ‘things’ – material objects which often carried an emotional value – and their representation in museums and exhibitions opens up a wide and rich field of research for the ethnography of migration.

Project Kesher – Making Jewish Women’s Voices Heard in the Former Soviet Union

Author(s): Yakimenko, Svetlana

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish Women

More than Tikkun Olam? – Youth Work in (smaller) Communities

Author(s): Sheppard, Sarah

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish Continuity, Small Jewish Communities, Youth Clubs, Youth Movements, Youth

The Synagogue of Dieren

Author(s): Pach, Manja

Date: 2014

Topics: Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Other, Synagogues, Reform/Liberal/Progressive Judaism, Rabbis, Jewish Women

Abstract: Manja Pach chronicles how a liberal Jewish community in the Netherlands reclaimed ownership of a disused village synagogue. While the women here had once been confined to the gallery, the synagogue now employs a female rabbi and cantor

We – the Third Generation

Author(s): Makówka-Kwapisiewicz, Anna

Date: 2014

Topics: Jewish Heritage, Age and Generational Issues, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Other, Post-1989

The Budapest Jewish quarter and what it means today – a negotiation about space from the female perspective

Author(s): Susán, Eszter

Date: 2014

Topics: Jewish Heritage, Jewish Space, Jewish Women, Gender, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage

Tales of Ladino: Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria speak about their heritage language

Author(s): Davcheva, Leah; Fay, Richard

Date: 2014

Topics: Ladino, Language, Main Topic: Other, Sephardi Jews

German Youth Educational Travel to Israel

Author(s): Ayalon, Yoni; Schnell, Izhak

Date: 2014

Topics: Educational Tours, Israel Tours, Main Topic: Education, Jewish Education, Jewish Identity, Israel Attachment, Israel Education, Israel Experience, Teenagers, Youth, Interviews

Abstract: The article examines the phenomenon of German youth educational tourism to Israel. A qualitative analysis of visits to the main tourist sites in Israel was conducted, and the analysis and interpretation of interviews that were conducted with the youths reflected characteristics of the youths’ sense of a tourist place. The experiences of the German youths in Jerusalem, on the Tel Aviv beach, at memorial sites, in seminars, and in visits to the private homes of Israeli youths blended into a central narrative of creating a reality of a new coexistence that is based on mutual respect between the next generations of Germans and Israelis. We suggest that a reconstruction of identities emerges from the dialectics between the home place of the tourists and the toured places in Israel.

Britain and the Formation of Contemporary Holocaust Consciousness: A Product of Europeanization, or Exercise in Triangulation?

Author(s): Pearce, Andy

Editor(s): Bond, Lucy; Rapson, Jessica

Date: 2014

Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Memorials, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial

Linke, Nahostkonflikt, Antisemitismus. Wegweiser durch eine Debatte. Eine kommentierte Bibliografie

Translated Title: Left, Middle East conflict, anti-Semitism. Guide through a debate. An annotated bibliography

Author(s): Ullrich, Peter

Date: 2014

Topics: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Israeli-Arab Conflict, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Main Topic: Antisemitism

Abstract: Insbesondere für die deutsche Linke hat der Nahost- und Antisemitismusstreit eine immense Bedeutung und Sprengkraft. Er ist Dauerthema in linken Zeitschriften und Veranstaltungen sowie beliebter Gegenstand der Agitation konservativer Medien gegen die Linke. Gelegentliche Eskalationen zu verschiedenen Anlässen sorgen dafür, dass die Problematik ganz oben auf der politischen Agenda bleibt. Dabei verläuft die Auseinandersetzung auch innerhalb der Linken selten solidarisch. Starke Identifikationen sowie extreme und zudem häufig antagonistische Positionierungen und Blickwinkel kennzeichnen die Debatte. Regelmäßig kommt es auch zu sehr persönlichen und verletzenden Vorwürfen und Angriffen; sogar vor physischer Gewalt wird nicht haltgemacht. Und im Gewand dieser Debatte wird immer wieder auch verhandelt, was eigentlich (noch) links ist.

Ziel dieser kommentierten Bibliografie zur Thematik Linke, Nahostkonflikt und Antisemitismus ist es, zu einer Versachlichung der Diskussion beizutragen. Sie will den einseitigen Positionen, schablonenhaften Schuldzuschreibungen und ritualisierten Phrasen komplexere Perspektiven entgegensetzen, Zugang zu Hintergrundwissen und «Fakten» sowie zu den Bedingungen ermöglichen, die diese erst zu solchen machen, und somit Anregungen zur (selbst-)kritischen Reflexion geben. Die Broschüre soll zudem einen leichten Einstieg in die inzwischen doch recht umfassende Literatur zum Thema bieten. Denn insbesondere in der Zeit nach 1990 ist eine Vielzahl von relevanten Studien und ernsthaften Debattenbeiträgen erschienen, die eine gute Grundlage bieten für die fundierte und kritische Auseinandersetzung mit spezifischen Traditionen, ideologischen Erbschaften, Prägungen und grundlegenden Ambivalenzen linker Politik in Hinblick auf den Nahostkonflikt. Im Folgenden werden die wichtigsten dieser Beiträge in Form von kurzen Inhaltsangaben und Kommentierungen vorgestellt. Als Sammlung von Basistexten ist diese Broschüre vor allem für die Nutzung in der politischen Bildungsarbeit gedacht. Doch auch Studierende, Wissenschaftler/innen und alle anderen Interessierten werden sich mit ihrer Hilfe schnell einen Überblick zum aktuellen Stand der Forschung verschaffen können.

In die Darstellung wurden vor allem Bücher aufgenommen, die Grundlegendes zum Verständnis linker Kontroversen zum Thema in einer bestimmten Epoche leisten (zum Beispiel zur Zionismus- Debatte in der Arbeiter/innenbewegung des 19. Jahrhunderts) oder die wesentliche Begriffe beziehungsweise theoretische Perspektiven in die Diskussion eingeführt haben (beispielsweise «antiimperialistischer Antizionismus»). Neben recht bekannten, weitverbreiteten und häufig zitierten Publikationen sind auch solche berücksichtigt, die hierzulande bisher weniger rezipiert wurden – sei es, weil sie nicht in deutscher Sprache veröffentlicht wurden oder weil die Texte aus anderen Gründen nicht leicht zugänglich sind. Soweit Zitate vom Englischen ins Deutsche übertragen wurden, stammen die Übersetzungen vom Autor. Nicht alle besprochenen Bücher werden im gleichen Umfang behandelt. Dahinter steht durchaus die Absicht, eine Gewichtung vorzunehmen und unnötige Wiederholungen zu vermeiden. Stattdessen wird die jeweilige Bedeutung der Texte für die Gesamtdebatte herausgestellt. Wo immer es möglich ist, werden die Leser/ innen bei Monografien auch auf kürzere Texte der entsprechenden Autor/ innen (die für Seminare und Lesekreise geeignet sind) oder Online-Ressourcen hingewiesen. Die in fünf Abschnitte unterteilte Darstellung beschränkt sich im Wesentlichen auf wissenschaftliche Beiträge

What can we learn from the dark chapters in our history? Education about the Holocaust in Poland in a comparative perspective.

Author(s): Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Jolanta

Date: 2014

Topics: Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial

Abstract: The article investigates what research tells us about the dynamics of educational practice in both formal and informal education about the Holocaust. It poses questions such as whether it is possible to identify good practices on a political and/or educational level, whether there are links between education about the Holocaust and human rights education, and how education about the Holocaust relates to attitudes toward Jews. Examples of both international studies (such as those by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU and the American Jewish Committee) and some national surveys on education about the Holocaust are discussed, followed by an analysis of empirical studies from Poland based on focus group interviews and individual interviews with educators. The choice of case study was based on the historical fact that occupied Poland was the site of the murder of almost 5 million Jews, including 3 million Polish Jews.

In many cases a strong association with a Polish sense of victimhood based on the memory of the terror and the murder of almost 2 million ethnic Poles during WWII creates conflicting approaches and generates obstacles to providing education about Jewish victims. Nevertheless, following the fall of communism, the number of educational initiatives designed to teach and learn about the Shoah is steadily increasing. The article presents tips for successful programmes of education about the Holocaust which can be generalised for any type of quality education, but are primarily significant for education about tolerance and education aimed at reducing prejudice, counteracting negative stereotypes and preventing discrimination.

Odnowa kultury żydowskiej w polskim społeczeństwie

Translated Title: Renewed Jewish Culture in Polish society

Author(s): Singer, Sandra

Date: 2014

Topics: Jewish Culture, Jewish Revival, Jewish Renewal, Jewish Community, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community

Abstract: Artykuł został poświęcony problematyce mniejszości żydowskiej w Polsce, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem efektów działalności Gminy Żydowskiej we Wrocławiu. Autorka postawiła tezę, iż w Polsce, w ostatnich dwóch dekadach zauważalna jest zmiana samopostrzegania się mniejszości żydowskiej, jak i sposobu jej komunikowania się
z otoczeniem. Chodzi tu przede wszystkim o transformację tożsamości współczesnej kultury żydowskiej (odnawianie się jej), od wspomnień powiązanych prawie wyłącznie z Holokaustem i dramatem II wojny światowej do pełnej partycypacji w życiu społecznokulturalnym polskiego społeczeństwa. Autorka przytacza konkretne przykłady ponownego włączania się społeczności żydowskiej we współczesną kulturę polską oraz czynnego w niej uczestnictwa

Traditionell und doch modern? Über die Zunahme von traditionellem Antisemitismus in Polen

Author(s): Bilewicz, Michał; Winiewski, Mikołaj; Benteler, Lara

Date: 2014

Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism

The emergence of antisemitism in times of rapid social change: Survey results from Poland.

Author(s): Bilewicz, Michał; Winiewski, Mikołaj

Editor(s): Guestnet, François; Jones, Gwen

Date: 2014

Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Surveys

Entangled memories: Holocaust education in contemporary France

Author(s): Ernst, Sophie

Editor(s): Fracapane, Karel; Haß, Matthias; Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin

Date: 2014

Topics: Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial

Conflicting memories: Polish and Jewish perceptions of the Shoah

Author(s): Gebert, Konstanty

Editor(s): Fracapane, Karel; Haß, Matthias; Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin

Date: 2014

Topics: Holocaust Education, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory

Urban commemoration and literature in post-Soviet L’viv: a comparative analysis with the Polish experience

Author(s): Blacker, Uilleam

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust, Holocaust Memorials, Memory

Abstract: This article analyzes how the Poles and Jews who disappeared from the western Ukrainian city of L'viv as a result of the Second World War are remembered in the city today. It examines a range of commemorative practices, from monuments and museums to themed cafes and literature, and analyzes how these practices interact to produce competing mnemonic narratives. In this respect, the article argues for an understanding of the city as a complex text consisting of a diverse range of mutually interdependent mnemonic media produced by a range of actors. The article focuses in particular on the ways in which Ukrainian nationalist narratives interact with the memory of the city's “lost others.” The article also seeks to understand L'viv's memory culture through comparison with a range of Polish cities that have faced similar problems with commemorating vanished communities, but have witnessed a deeper recognition of these communities than has been the case in L'viv. The article proposes reasons for the divergences between the memory cultures of L'viv and that found in Polish cities, and attempts to outline the gradual processes by which L'viv's Polish and Jewish pasts might become more widely integrated into the city's memory culture

The Vanishing State: Religious Education and Intolerance in French Jewish Schools

Author(s): Arkin, Kimberly A.

Editor(s): Seligman, Adam B.

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Jewish Identity, National Identity, Religious Education

Abstract: France does not offer religious education in public schools. The French state does, however, fund private religious schools. The author focuses on the unintended consequences of one aspect of this practice—the decision to finance, but not regulate, Jewish day schools. The French Department of Education intends for Jewish school students (like their Catholic school counterparts) to see themselves as simultaneously French AND religious. But in the mid-2000s, the reality was quite different. The author argues that the content of religious education did not necessarily stop day schoolers from generalizing their trust beyond other Jews. Rather, it was the context of Jewish schooling that allowed Jewish students to understand themselves as “not French.” By funding and ignoring day schools, the State made this context, and thus the separation of religious and national identities, possible.

Unacademic academics: Holocaust deniers and trivializers in post-Communist Romania

Author(s): Shafir, Michael

Date: 2014

Topics: Antisemitism, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Denial, Communism, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, Trauma, Post-1989

Abstract: The Romanian Academy (and much of the country's historical establishment) is packed with Holocaust deniers and trivializers, many of whom indulge in Holocaust obfuscation against the background of the post-Communist “competitive martyrdom” between the victims of the Holocaust and the Gulag. Quite a few of these deniers and trivializers are also former secret police informers. On closer examination, however, it turns out that explaining the reluctance to face the country's “dark past” as being the independent variable resultant of the post “Romanianization” of the Communist Party and its Securitate is a partial explanation at best. A substantially more convincing one might be provided by scrutinizing the phenomenon as the product of post-mnemonic cultural traumas.

Antisemitismus, Antizionismus und Kritik an Israel in Deutschland. Dynamiken eines diskursiven Feldes

Author(s): Ullrich, Peter

Date: 2014

Topics: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Israel Criticism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse

Holocaust Memory and Antisemitism in Lithuania: Reversed Memories of the Second World War

Author(s): Malinauskaite, Gintare

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Memory

Antisemitism and Attitudes Towards the Holocaust. Empirical Studies from Poland

Author(s): Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Jolanta

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Surveys, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration

Antisemitism in Austria after the Shoah

Author(s): Reiter, Margit

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism

Antisemitism in Spain: A Religion-Based Anti-Judaism?

Author(s): Menny, Anna

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism

Traditional and yet modern? On the increase in traditional antisemitism in Poland

Author(s): Benteler, Lara; Bilewicz, Michał; Winiewski, Mikołaj

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Surveys

New Antisemitism ‒ Criticism of Israel or Antisemitism: Turkey

Author(s): Gueven, Dilek

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism: New Antisemitism, Israel Criticism

Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in Britain

Author(s): Feldman, David

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism

Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Criticism of Israel in Germany: The Dynamics of a Discursive Field

Author(s): Ullrich, Peter

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Israel Criticism

Hate Thy Imaginary Neighbor An Analysis of Antisemitism in Slovakia

Author(s): Bustikova, Lenka; Guasti, Petra

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Surveys

Anti-Antisemitic Enthusiasm & Selective Philosemitism: Geert Wilders, the PVV and the Jews

Author(s): Gans, Evelien

Date: 2014

Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Philosemitism, Antisemitism: Far right

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