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Notes on East European Jewish Studies thirty years after 1989
Author(s): Manchin, Anna
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Studies (Academic Discipline), Main Topic: Education, Universities / Higher Education, Post-Communist Transitions
Matzo Hussars & Creative (Anti)Semitism: Jewishness & Popular Culture in Post-Communist Hungary
Author(s): Manchin, Anna B.
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Culture, Jewish Revival and Renewal, Attitudes to Jews
Abstract: This article argues that a new understanding of “Jewishness” is emerging in post-communist Hungary, most clearly and visibly in the realm of popular culture. Global images of “Jewishness” and their local interpretations, which have become part of public culture since the fall of communism and especially with wider access to the internet, have shaped both popular discussions of “Jewishness” and Hungarian Jewish self-representations. These, in turn, are challenging the traditional Hungarian understanding of the meaning and place of “Jewishness” in Hungarian public life. Following a brief historical outline to help situate the current debate, I analyze four interpretations of “Jewishness” in contemporary Hungarian popular culture: an animated film, a blog, and two restaurants. I argue that they break with long-standing Hungarian discursive and political traditions and suggest a new, more open take on “Jewishness” based on the notion of “ethnic culture.”
Rethinking Jewishness in Networked Publics: The Case of Post-Communist Hungary
Author(s): Manchin, Anna
Editor(s): Bronner, Simon J.; Battegay, Caspar
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Community, Internet: Social Media, Internet: Online/Virtual Culture and Community
Jews in Museums: Narratives of Nation and 'Jewishness' in Post-Communist Hungarian and Polish Public Memory
Author(s): Manchin, Anna
Date: 2019
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust Legacies and Memorial, Memory, Museums: Jewish and Holocaust Museums, National Identity
Staging Traumatic Memory: Competing Narratives of State Violence in Post-Communist Hungarian Museums
Author(s): Manchin, Anna
Date: 2015
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Museums: Jewish and Holocaust Museums, Memory, Holocaust: Legacies, Remembering and Attitudes Towards, Holocaust: Education, Holocaust: Memorials, Jewish Relations With Non-Jews, Post-Communist Transitions, Communism, Violence
Abstract: The article examines the way three contemporary Hungarian museums–the House of Terror Museum, the Jewish Museum and the Holocaust Memorial and Documentation Center–represent the history of the Holocaust and the history of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. Reflecting different political agendas, each of the three museums offers a different interpretation of how the Holocaust fits into the larger narrative of Hungary's 20th century history. The article argues that post-communist public memory has been constructed through debates about these histories. By analyzing the three museums' displays, narratives and the debates surrounding them, the article argues that Hungarian public discourse has yet to come to terms with the meaning and place of “Jewishness” (and the way it has informed “Hungarianness”) in modern Hungarian history. Despite the centrality of Jews and Jewish-non-Jewish relations to the museums' narratives, none are able to offer a clear definition of what “Jewishness” means and how it functioned at different times throughout the 20th century.