Jews in Socialist Yugoslavia: a Quest for New Jewishness

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Jews in Socialist Yugoslavia: a Quest for New Jewishness

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Research on the fate of the Jews during World War II has long dominated Holocaust studies, whereas significantly less attention has been paid to the period after the Holocaust and the consequences it had for survivors. However, returning home, interacting with members of the often-hostile social majority, and suffering emotional deprivation presented another trauma they had to deal with. Conditions for the reconstruction of destroyed Jewish communities and survivors&apos; prospects for leading a &quot;normal&quot; life varied from country to country. Here local political will was important, but the ideological division of Europe and the beginning of the Cold War played a major role, too. In this paper, I examine the situation of socialist Yugoslavia and its Jewry from various perspectives. By using secondary literature as well as oral history methods, I have tried to assess the transformations of Jewish identity/ies in the socialist period and the factors that influenced these processes. It is argued that the (self-)perception of being a Jew changed dramatically after World War II; however, the political and social climate in Yugoslavia did not lead to complete assimilation. Most Yugoslav Jews self-identified with both Yugoslavism and Jewishness, which were not seen as contradictory. Jewish identity ceased to be associated with religion, with Judaism, and instead started to be dominated by historical and cultural aspects of Jewishness and by the collective experience of the Holocaust to some extent.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Jews in Socialist Yugoslavia: a Quest for New Jewishness

Popis výsledku anglicky

Research on the fate of the Jews during World War II has long dominated Holocaust studies, whereas significantly less attention has been paid to the period after the Holocaust and the consequences it had for survivors. However, returning home, interacting with members of the often-hostile social majority, and suffering emotional deprivation presented another trauma they had to deal with. Conditions for the reconstruction of destroyed Jewish communities and survivors&apos; prospects for leading a &quot;normal&quot; life varied from country to country. Here local political will was important, but the ideological division of Europe and the beginning of the Cold War played a major role, too. In this paper, I examine the situation of socialist Yugoslavia and its Jewry from various perspectives. By using secondary literature as well as oral history methods, I have tried to assess the transformations of Jewish identity/ies in the socialist period and the factors that influenced these processes. It is argued that the (self-)perception of being a Jew changed dramatically after World War II; however, the political and social climate in Yugoslavia did not lead to complete assimilation. Most Yugoslav Jews self-identified with both Yugoslavism and Jewishness, which were not seen as contradictory. Jewish identity ceased to be associated with religion, with Judaism, and instead started to be dominated by historical and cultural aspects of Jewishness and by the collective experience of the Holocaust to some extent.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Studia Balkanica Bohemo-Slovaca VII

ISBN

978-80-7028-492-6

ISSN

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

291-302

Název nakladatele

Moravské zemské muzeum

Místo vydání

Brno

Místo konání akce

Brno

Datum konání akce

28. 11. 2016

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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