Dr Nadege Ragaru

Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust

On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative
Übersetzer: Baena, Victoria; Rich, David Alan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

CO-WINNER: John D. Bell 2024 Memorial Book PrizeA profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust.

Produktdetails

• Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781648250705
• ISBN-10: 164825070X
• Artikelnr.: 67789768

Autorenporträt

NADÈGE RAGARU is a Research Professor at the Centres d'études internationales (CERI), in Paris, France.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction On the "Rescue of the Jews" and
National Exceptionalism: A Riddle of Received Wisdom Knowledge about the
Holocaust: Justice, Fiction, and Controversies Contours of an Investigation
Nationalizing the Past, Internationally Reassessing the Cold War Era The
Way Forward Chapter 1. The Judicial Production of an Account of Anti-Jewish
Persecution: The Genesis of a Heroic Narrative Judging in Time of War The
(In)visibility of Anti-Jewish Crimes in the "General Trials" The
Construction of a Judicial Cause by Bulgarian Communist Jews A Sketch of
the Trial Scene Courtroom 11 The Germans, the Fascists, and the "Good
People": Drawing the Perimeter of Guilt A Fascist is an Anti-Semite... and
Vice Versa The Euphemization of Jewish Suffering The Posterity of the
Court: A Central Elision Chapter 2. Deportation of the Jews, from Belomorie
to the Screen: Negotiating a "Socialist" Reading of the War Cinemas on
Unequal Terms in Bulgaria and East Germany Elusive Presences of the
Holocaust on the Screens One Co-production, Two Institutions, Several
Agendas Konrad Wolf and Angel Wagenstein, a Dear Friendship Shooting Notes,
and Other Digressions Script, Storyboard, and Film: Effects of Cutting and
Framing Two Very Different Wars: The Bulgarian Lens Negotiating an
East-East Reading of Nazism: German Polychromy? Jewish Fates, in a Minor
Key Jewish Passivity: A Question of Gender? Christian Signs forJewish
Suffering? A Transnational Symbolic Repertoire Chapter 3. The Deportation
of Jews from Northern Greece: The Mysterious Journeys of a 1943 Film
Footage Archival Inventories as Texts and Gaze A Film withoutan Author or
Instructions? Scrutinizing Frames that Resist Analysis From Visual Document
to Legal Evidence: The Beckerle Case Judicial Cooperation between West
Germany, the United States, Israel, and Bulgaria: A Tale of the Cold War
When Art Meets the Intelligence Community Cultural Diplomacy and the
"Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews" The "Rescue" Goes West: Managing Scarcity
and Acquisition Competitions Managing Scarcity and Acquisition Competitions
Epilogue Chapter 4. Accounts of "Rescue" and Deportation in Dialogue:
Memory Controversies after 1989 Bringing Back the Polyphony of the Past:
(In)divisible Truths When History takes Center Stage Re-negotiating the
Territorial Span of Bulgaria's Historical Narrative Words and Walls of
Conflict in Balkan Jewish Communities The "Blagovest Sendov" Affair: A
Bulgarian Forest in the (Domestic) Political Arena Dimitär Pes¿ev: A New
Topography of Memory Chapter 5. Fruitful Disputes? Transnational
Mobilizations and the Institutionalization of a Space of Dissensus Charting
a New Historiography Bulgarian-Macedonian Holocaust Controversies When
European Institutions Discuss History and Memory Games of Scale, Games of
Chess: Debating Bulgaria's Memory Policies Remembering the Holocaust to
Fight Anti-Semitism: A Room forConvergence? In the Spotlight of
Euro-Atlantic Integration Conclusion Historiographical Disputes What We
Talk About When We Talk About the Holocaust Jewish Voices in the Writing of
the Past Challenges of the Page: Leafing Through Time, Speaking the Seen
Appendix: The March 1943 Deportations from Territories Occupied by Bulgaria
Bibliography Index