ABSTRACTThis chapter explores the postwar trials in Bulgaria of officials and public figures who led the confiscation of Jewish property and the deportation of the Jews. It explores the working of Chamber 7, established to prosecute accused individuals, to consider subjects ranging from wartime Bulgarization policies and Jewish responses to economi...
Published in Eastern European Holocaust Studies
This interview is available as a Podcast in “Standing Up Against the Assault on Democracy” hosted by the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Talking to the artists Gabriela Bulišová and Mark Isaac about their current project, “The Landscape of our Memory”, and what challenges we face today when it comes to memory, genocide, and ecocide. The i...
Orientalist tropes shaped Western ideas about the East in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries through travelogues and fiction, and have persisted into the twenty-first. One central set -piece of these stereotypes is the imaginary Eastern European country, “Ruritania.” The advantages and drawbacks of such an imagined place are explored...
Published in Eastern European Holocaust Studies
This article analyzes Jean-Claude Grumberg’s 2019 Holocaust fairy tale, The Most Precious of Cargoes, translated from French. This fairy tale adds to Grumberg’s oeuvre of Holocaust fiction, including plays and children’s stories. His fairy tale may be his most personal attempt to process his own Holocaust experience, as he includes an appendix with...
Published in Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
In ihrem Bestreben, die Funktionsweise totalitärer Systeme zu verstehen, insbesondere, die von Nazi-Deutschland begangenen Verbrechen zu begreifen, spricht Hannah Arendt von der Banalität des Bösen. Dabei geht sie über Kants Auffassung des radikal Bösen hinaus, ohne dessen moralische Bedeutung zu verwerfen, um angesichts der Erschütterung des tradi...
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Published in Eastern European Holocaust Studies
The article briefly outlines the current state of scholarly literature devoted to ongoing debates on the history and role of war- and postwar open and closed trials of Nazi perpetrators and their auxiliaries in the Soviet Union. Having become partly available for historians more than two decades ago, these trials proceedings constitute a unique sou...
Published in Eastern European Holocaust Studies
In November 2018, the reconstructed synagogue was inaugurated in Kaliningrad (Russian Federation) on the site of the house of worship destroyed on the night of the pogrom of 1938, Kristallnacht. Since 2022, a small Jewish Museum has also opened in the active synagogue, the centerpiece of which is a thematically conceptualized permanent exhibition. ...
The article aims to prove that there are autobiographical threads in Hanna Krall’s reportages, which are related to the necessity to hide during the occupation, detention at the police station and the death of her mother. The discovery of autobiographical tropes in Krall’s work may change the reception of her publications. The first coded mentions ...
