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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.
Thinking Jewish: Identity and the Jew in Western Europe
Author(s): Lambert, Nick
Date: 2002
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community
The Contemporary Klezmer Revival in Kraków and Berlin as a Jewish / non-Jewish Encounter
Author(s): Waligórska, Magdalena
Date: 2009
Topics: Jewish Music, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Klezmer, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: The present study addresses the most important mediations of klezmer which have not been given attention in the existing scholarship, mapping new functions and meanings ascribed to klezmer music, the representations this particular music scene generates, the public debates it provokes and the dynamics of the social encounter between Jews and non-Jews that it enables.
Collective Religious Autonomy under the European Convention on Human Rights: the UK Jewish Free School Case in International Perspective
Author(s): Kiviorg, Merilin
Date: 2010
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Law
Abstract: What should the response be if a religious community (or an affiliated institution) violates the
individual rights of either its own members or of others in society? This working paper analyses the
UK Jewish Free School case, which raised a question of racial discrimination in the admission policy
of the school from a theoretical and international law perspective with focus on the case law of the
European Court of Human Rights. The aim is to address broader issues of collective freedom of
religion or belief by giving some theoretical conceptualising points about collective religious
autonomy. An attempt is also made to provide some hypothetical predictions as to how the JFS case
would be decided under the European Court of Human Rights if ever submitted.
Cultural Representations of Jewishness at the Turn of the 21st Century
Editor(s): Waligórska, Magdalena; Wagenhofer, Sophie
Date: 2010
Topics: Jewish Heritage, Jewish Culture, Jewish Museums, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: The present volume is a collection of selected essays first presented at the interdisciplinary conference “Representations of Jews in the Contemporary European Popular Culture”, held by the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence from 24 to 26 November 2008.