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Thinking Differently, Acting Separately? Heritage Discourse and Heritage Treatment in Chişinău
Author(s): Felcher, Anastasia
Date: 2019
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Memory, Post-1989, Jewish History, Jewish Heritage, National Identity, Multiculturalism, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: This article compares how multi‐ethnic heritage is conceptualized and how it is treated in reality. Focusing on the case of Chişinău—a borderland city that was once known forits cultural diversity—the article examines the complex nature of opinions about the city’s multicultural heritage expressed by representatives of its cultural elite and collected as an interview corpus in 2012. Then, the article looks at several recent heritage projects in Chişinău and beyond (2010–2018) and analyzes to what extent the heritage discourse is realized in practice, in a context where the emergence of an approach focused on reconciliation and the promotion of diversity is only a very recent development.
On the Peripheries of Memory: Tracing the History of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Wrocław’s Urban Imaginary
Author(s): Golden, Juliet D.; Cervinkova, Hana
Date: 2019
Topics: Cemeteries, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, Post-1989, Jewish History, Jewish Heritage
Abstract: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Wrocław offers a unique
perspective on the changing tectonics of memory construction in a
Central European city. In this article, we trace the little known
history of the cemetery and the ways in which its position in the
urban imaginary changed in the context of large‐scale geopolitical
transformations. Through the cemetery’s history, we can follow the
fate of one of the most prominent Jewish communities in pre‐World
War II Germany, starting with its emergence following the
emancipation of German Jews in the last quarter of the nineteenth
century to its demise under Nazi rule. After the city’s transfer to
Poland following the Potsdam Conference (1945), the cemetery
became an increasingly isolated relic of the Jewish past of the city
until its grassroots‐led revitalization commencing during the 1980s
Solidarity era. After this important period of civic‐led renaissance
tied to the city’s Jewish heritage, today, the cemetery has been
pushed again to the periphery, an outcome of a process we refer to
as the policy of memory containment.