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Overview"A profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust. During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish community. Until recently, this image of Bulgaria as a European exception has prevailed-but at a cost. For it ignored the roundup of almost all the Jews living in the Yugoslav and Greek territories under Bulgarian occupation between 1941 and 1944, who were in fact deported to Poland, where they were murdered. In this new English translation of her work originally published in French, Nadege Ragaru presents a riveting, wide-ranging archival investigation encompassing 80 years and six countries (Bulgaria, Germany, the United States, Israel, North Macedonia and Serbia), in doing so exploring the origins and perpetuation of this heroic narrative of Bulgaria's past. Moving between legal and political spheres, from artistic creations to museum exhibits, from the writing of history to transnational public controversies, she shows how the Holocaust north of the Danube became a ""rescue"" to the river's south. She traces how individual merits were turned into ""national"" achievements, while blame for the deportations was planted squarely on Nazi Germany. And she illuminates how discussions on the Holocaust in Bulgaria were held hostage to Cold War dynamics before 1989, only to yield to political and memorial struggles afterwards. Ultimately, she restores Jewish voices to the story of their own wartime suffering. On publication this book is available as an Open Access eBook under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Nadège Ragaru , Dr Victoria Baena , David A. RichPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: University of Rochester Press Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781648250705ISBN 10: 164825070 Pages: 406 Publication Date: 24 October 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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 Dimităr Pešev: 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"ReviewsAuthor InformationNADÈGE RAGARU is a Research Professor at the Centres d'études internationales (CERI), in Paris, France. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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