Memory Cultures in Southeast Europe since 1945

The volume attempts to describe the diverging and often conflicting memory cultures in the Southeast European post-conflict societies on World War II and the Holocaust today. The sixteen contributions use multidisciplinary approaches to highlight the socio-political contexts and medialization of memory production

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the International Academic Week in Tutzing in October 2021 attempted to describe the diverging and often conflicting memory cultures in the Southeast European post-conflict societies today: the canonical and cultural memory concerning World War II and the Holocaust on the one hand and inter-generationally formed communicative memories on the other. The post-Yugoslav debates on memory are conditioned by the renewed experience of ethnic violence, displacement and genocide during the wars of the 1990s. The sixteen contributions in the four panels Holocaust and Antisemitism, Memories of Tito's Yugoslavia, Memory Wars in the National Discourse and Writing Memory Culture use multidisciplinary approaches (archival sources, oral history, fieldwork, popular culture) to highlight the socio-political contexts and medialization of memory production.

Autorentext

Christian Voss is head of the Department for South Slavic Studies at Humboldt University since 2006. He earned his PhD in 1996 on Church Slavonic in the Balkans and his habilitation in 2004 on Slavic minorities in Greece.
Sabina Ferhadbegovic is a historian and lecturer at the University of Jena. She holds a PhD awarded by Albert Ludwig's University in Freiburg. In 2022 she finished her habilitation on the prosecution of war crimes in the aftermath of the Second World War in Yugoslavia.
Kateřina Králová is associate professor of Contemporary History and Head of the Research Centre for Memory Studies at the Institute of International Studies, Charles University (CUNI). Králová, an alumna of Phillips University Marburg, has been awarded major international fellowships, including from the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, and USHMM, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship at Yale University.

Inhalt

Christian Voß, Sabina Ferhadbegovic, Katerina Králová Introduction - Holocaust and Antisemitism Esilda Luku Holocaust Memory in History Textbooks for Secondary Education: The Case of Albania - Katerina Králová Memory Landscapes in Ruins: The Example of the Hirsch Quarter in Thessaloniki - Ioannis Stylianidis Antisemitism without Jews in Kavala during Populism - Alexios Ntetorakis Victims, Bystanders, Collaborators. Refugees from the Bulgarian-occupied Zone in Thessaloniki during the Holocaust - Michael Ilg "Juden und andere Patrioten"? - Konkurrierende Erinnerungsnarrative an die Vernichtung der jüdischen Bevölkerung Brckos seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg - Memories of Tito's Yugoslavia - Claudia Meyr-Veselinovic Brüderlichkeit, Einheit und pionirska - Novi Partizani 2.0 Re- oder Upcycling? Über die Wiederverwendung von bekannten Melodien und Texten - VukaSin Zoric Supporting Liberation, Exporting Revolution: The Role of Memory in the Cooperation between SUBNOR and the Third World Veteran and Anti-Colonial Organizations - NataSa Jagdhuhn The Yugoslav Heritage-Industry - Roswitha Kersten-Pejanic Lands of (Banal) Nationalism: Epistemological Issues in the Classification of Nationalism(s) in a Post-conflict Semiotic Landscape - Memory Wars in the National Discourse - Anjeza Xhaferaj Making and Breaking Friends - Discursive Strategies of the Party of Labor of Albania in Making and Breaking Alliances during Communism - Francesco Trupia Decolonising Bulgaria's Official Amnesia: A Pericentric Approach to Minority Memories of Anti-Communist Resistance - Barbara Törnquist-Plewa Populist Memory Discourses in Contemporary East Central and Southeastern Europe - Their Roots and Main Features - Melinda Harlov-Csortán The Role of the Location in Forming the Narration about Memorials. Two Representational Squares in the Hungarian Capital during the Cold War - Christian Voß Die Erinnerungskultur der mazedonischen Bürgerkriegsflüchtlinge aus Griechenland zwischen Indigenismus und ethnischem Transnationalismus - Writing Memory Culture - Johanna Paul Stockholm-Syndrom in der Schwedischen Akademie? Die Proteste gegen die Verleihung des Literatur-Nobelpreises an Peter Handke - Mihaela Gligor Memories in Writing. On the Importance of Correspondence for Recovering History