Titre" We pledge, as if it was the Highest Sanctum, to preserve the memory": Sovetish Heymland, facets of Holocaust commemoration in the Soviet Union and the Cold War
Auteur
Miriam Schulz
Call number940.5318072/87
N° d'objet11890k
Lieu de publicationBudapest, Hungary
EditeurCentral European University Press
Année de publication
2022
MatérielArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Growing in the shadow of antifascism: remembering the Holocaust in state-socialist Eastern Europe' pp253-274
Description
Close reading allows for several conclusions to be drawn regarding Holocaust memory as represented in Sovetish Heymland. A variety of ritual Holocaust commemoration activities in different part of the Soviet Union existed. While the Soviet war cult was intended to subsume the Holocaust - this same cult reinforced a distinct way of commemorating the specifically Jewish catastrophe and experience among Soviet Yiddish speakers