Yellow Star, Red Star : Holocaust Remembrance after Communism / Jelena Subotić.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Subotic, Jelena, Author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe, Eastern--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe, Eastern--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Anniversaries, etc.

Memorialization--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Memorialization.

Nationalism and collective memory--Europe, Eastern.

Nationalism and collective memory.

Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.

Post-communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled-ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated-throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism.Yellow Star, Red Star presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. The book demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary "ontological insecurities"-insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As Subotić concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

The Big Gray Truck

1. The Politics of Holocaust Remembrance after Communism

2. At the Belgrade Fairgrounds

3. Croatia's Islands of Memory

4. The Long Shadows of Vilna

The Stakes of Holocaust Remembrance in the Twenty-First Century

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781501742415

1501742418

OCLC:

1099539476