Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Ab Imperio; Theory and History of Nationalism and Empire in the Post-Soviet Space
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2004) 393-415
Keywords:
Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Jews History 20th century
Abstract:
Soviet authorities always felt uneasy with Babii Yar (in Ukrainian, Babyn Yar) as a place of Jewish memory. Unable to erase its memory, they tried to appropriate it as a site of the martyrdom of the Soviet people at the hands of the Nazis, without mentioning Jews. In formation of a counter-memory of yhis view, which specified the Jews as the victims, a key role was played by non-Jewish Russian intellectuals, such as Yevtushenko and Kuznetsov. Despite official suppression of Holocaust memory, and due to concerted Jewish and non-Jewish efforts, a new Jewish counter-narrative for Babii Yar was gradually created. The memory of Babii Yar became a cornerstone of the emerging Jewish national consciousness in Ukraine and the USSR. In independent Ukraine, other counter-narratives appeared, competing with the Jewish one. Various non-Jewish groups, including extreme right-wing Ukrainian nationalists, have made attempts to establish their own monuments at Babii Yar.
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