After the Whirlwind: Jewish Absence in Postwar Czechoslovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009416667792" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009416667792</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009416667792" target="_blank" >10.1177/0022009416667792</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
After the Whirlwind: Jewish Absence in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Original language description
This article analyses absences encountered by Jews in postwar Czechoslovakia. Based on two first-hand accounts (by Leo Herrmann and Joseph Wechsberg), the author offers insights into how Jewish exiles, who visited Czechoslovakia in the first postwar months, perceived the absences caused by the Shoah and by the efforts of postwar societies to create ethnically and linguistically homogeneous countries, without any distinct minority cultures. In postwar Czechoslovakia, the survivors had to cope with the physical absence of those murdered during the war, but also with the loss of multi-culturalism, and ethnic and linguistic diversity of the population. It was expected that the Jews, who decided to stay in postwar Czechoslovakia, would undergo a complete assimilation and would become part of the Czech or Slovak nation. The Jews - a distinct group made absent by the Nazi policies - were further absented from their societies by the postwar reconstruction of their homeland. Although some of the survivors accepted the new rules of the game and attempted to adjust to the new conditions, a majority of those who returned to Czechoslovakia after 1945 soon left the country forever.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science

Project
<a href="/en/project/GP13-15989P" target="_blank" >GP13-15989P: The Czechs, Slovaks and Jews: Together but Apart , 1938-1989</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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