Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus

Irina Rebrova

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020

Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory

The Case of the North Caucasus

Irina Rebrova

Volume 11 in the series SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688993

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About this book

The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and little presence of Jews at the same time. It aims to find out how such individual initiatives correspond to the official Russian hero-orientated concept of remembering the Second World war with almost no attention to the memory of war victims, including Holocaust victims. North Caucasus became the last address of thousands of Soviet Jews, both evacuees and locals. While there was almost no attention paid to the Holocaust victims in the official Soviet propaganda in the postwar period, local activists and historians together with the members of Jewish communities preserved Holocaust memory by installing small obelisks at the killing sites, writing novels and making documentaries, teaching about the Holocaust at schools and making small thematic exhibitions in the local and school museums. Individual types of grass roots activities in the region on remembering Holocaust victims are analyzed in each chapter of the book.

Author / Editor information

Irina Rebrova, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin.

Reviews

"Rebrova's monograph [...] is an important contribution to the study of 'Holocaust' memory in the Soviet Union based on impressive research [...]. It will be of value for scholars on the North Caucasus and Russia more broadly." Miriam Schulz in: sehepunkte 10/2021

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"Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Memorial, die Rebrova ebenfalls behandelt, wurde mittlerweile
aufgelöst. Es ist zu hoffen, dass die zivilgesellschaftlichen Erinnerungsaktivist:innen
ihre Arbeit fortsetzen können – mit ihrem Buch hat Rebrova ihrer Arbeit und ihren Initiativen
ein Denkmal gesetzt. Dies ist ihr großes Verdienst." Katja Makhotina in: ZFG 10/2022

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 The Holocaust in the North Caucasus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3 (Re)writing Holocaust Memory in Official Soviet Wartime Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4 Memorial Sites: Re-framing Holocaust Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
5 Depicting Jewish Fates: Artistic Responses to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6 Reifying Memory? Representations of North Caucasus Holocaust History in Museum Collections Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
7 We Don’t Need No . . . Holocaust Education? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
8 Revisiting Experience: Personal Narratives of the Holocaust in the North Caucasus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
9 Conclusion. Key Features of the Holocaust Memory Dispositif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
List of Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Academics in Holocaust history, Russian history, memory studies, microhistory, World War II history, Holocaust education.
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 357
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 21
- Maps: 2
- Tables: 6

eBook

Published: October 26, 2020
ISBN: 9783110688993

Hardcover

Published: October 26, 2020
ISBN: 9783110688863