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Refugees ‘as Jews’. Travelling Images of Atrocities
Author(s): Kurz, Iwona
Editor(s): Hauser, Jakub; Janáčová, Eva
Date: 2021
Topics: Antisemitism, Attitudes to Jews, Main Topic: Other, Refugees, Racism, Memory, Politics, Immigration, Holocaust
Abstract: During the so-called refugee crisis in 2015, the analogy to Jewish refugees from before World War II was used intensely in public debate. This article, based on the concept of the imaginary (Castoriadis), analyzes the use of this analogy, the presence of the memory of the Holocaust in contemporary discourse, and the use of images and visual clichés associated with this event in contemporary discussions. The theoretical, visual argument is based on the work Positives (2002-2003) by Zbigniew Libera. The material comes from the Polish debate put in this interpretative context. In 2015 Polish society, like most of its Central European neighbours, took the anti-refugee approach, mostly as the result of propaganda activities by media and right-wing parties.
Contemporary Visual Antisemitism in the Czech Republic
Author(s): Tarant, Zbyněk
Editor(s): Hauser, Jakub; Janáčová, Eva
Date: 2021
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Antisemitism: Christian, Folklore, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Despite the last thirty years of political stability and democratic establishment, antisemitism has not fully disappeared from the Czech Republic. This article aims to deepen our understanding of not only the visual symbols and ideological links, but also of the people who create and disseminate these artworks. Having collected and coded visual antisemitica for the last ten years, the author documents the contrast between traditional depictions of Jews in contemporary Czech folklore (or in what is considered ‘tradition’) and the more esoteric symbolism of the conspiracy theories and political extremism. It is argued that, while the mainstream ‘traditional’ depictions of Jews have retained stereotypical features, the extremist scene has moved forward to a more abstract expression, which pushes our methodological and legal definitions of ‘visual antisemitism’ to, and beyond, their limits.