Finland's Holocaust : silences of history / edited by Simo Muir, Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Helsinki, and Hana Worthen, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Perfomance Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muir, Simo, editor.

Worthen, Hana, 1973- editor.

Series:

Holocaust and its contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Finland--History.

Jews.

Antisemitism--Finland.

Antisemitism.

Ethnic relations.

History.

Finland--Ethnic relations.

Finland.

Physical Description:

x, 281 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Contents:

Contesting the Silences of History / Hana Worthen and Simo Muir

Stories of National and Transnational Memory: Renegotiating the Finnish Conception of Moral Witness and National Victimhood / John Sundholm

Modes of Displacement: Ignoring, Understating, and Denying

Antisemitism in Finnish Historiography / Simo Muir

"I Devote Myself to the Fatherland": Finnish Folklore, Patriotic Nationalism, and Racial Ideology / Ilona Salomaa

Towards New Europe: Arvi Kivimaa, Kultur, and the Fictions of Humanism / Hana Worthen

Discrimination against Jewish Athletes in Finland: An Unwritten Chapter / Malte Gasche and Simo Muir

Elina Sana's Luovutetut and the Politics of History / Jouni Tilli

Negotiating a Dark Past in the Swedish-language Press in Finland and Sweden / Karin Kvist Geverts

Beyond "Those Eight": Deportations of Jews from Finland 1941-1942 / Oula Silvennoinen

"Soldaten wie andere auch": Finnish Waffen-SS Volunteers and Finland's Historical Imagination / Antero Holmila

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Worthen, Hana, 1973- Towards new Europe : Arvi Kivimaa, Kultur, and the fictions of humanism.

ISBN:

9781137302649

113730264X

OCLC:

815735405