scholarly journals Transgenerational Memory: From Pre-Holocaust to Post-Yugoslavia

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Кринка [Krinka] Видаковић-Петров [Vidaković-Petrov]
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Hybrid Structure ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hybrid Character ◽  
And Gender

Transgenerational Memory: From Pre-Holocaust to Post-YugoslaviaThe study focuses on Fanika as an example of documentary writing by firstand second-generation survivors, i.e. women in the mother-daughter relationship (Hanna Altarac/Fanika Lučić and Branka Jovičić), both from Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The timeline of the life story of Hanna/Fanika, born in 1922 in a Sephardic family from Sarajevo, coincides on the macro level with the history of Yugoslavia (the establishment of the state and the interwar period, World War Two and the Holocaust, the postwar socialist period, the break-up of the country and post-Yugoslavia), which is important for the contextualization of the narrative. We have analyzed the motivation of first-generation survivor Fanika Lučić to present her memories of the Holocaust, highlighting the importance of communicative memory as an instrument of their transmission to a second-generation survivor as well as the process involved in their transfer from private to public narrative. Further analysis refers to the generic frames of the narrative, its hybrid character, and its liminal position at a point where biography and autobiography meet and interact. Mediation is a key procedure in Fanika, so attention has been dedicated to determining the degrees of mediation, their variation throughout the narrative and their impact on the substructures (narrative segments). Finally, we have identified, interpreted, and contextualized several gender markers appearing at various levels of the text. In conclusion, the book was designed not only to transmit the Holocaust testimony of Fanika Lučić, but also to provide a biographical account of her life in socialist Yugoslavia, her experience of the war in Bosnia, and the final phase of her life as a Canadian immigrant. Transgenerational memory and gender play a key role in the hybrid structure of this book, which is a welcome contribution to Yugoslav Holocaust literature. Pamięć międzypokoleniowa: od czasów przed Holokaustem do okresu postjugosłowiańskiegoArtykuł analizuje książkę Fanika jako przykład prozy dokumentalnej, autorstwa dwóch kobiet należących kolejno do pierwszego i drugiego pokolenia ocalałych z Holokaustu. Są to pochodzące z Sarajewa matka i córka – Hanna Altarac/Fanika Lučic i Branka Jovičic. Ramy czasowe historii życia Hanny/Faniki (ur. 1922 w sefardyjskiej rodzinie) zbiegają się z historią Jugosławii (powstanie państwa i okres międzywojenny, II wojna światowa i Holokaust, powojenny socjalistyczny okres, rozpad kraju i okres postjugosłowiański), co stanowi istotny punkt wyjścia dla kontekstualizacji narracji. W artykule poddano analizie zarówno motywację ocalałej z pierwszego pokolenia Faniki Lučić do przedstawienia swoich wspomnień z Holokaustu, podkreślając znaczenie pamięci komunikacyjnej jako narzędzia służącego do przekazywania wspomnień ocalałemu z drugiego pokolenia, jak i proces transferu wspomnień z narracji prywatnej do publicznej. Dalsza analiza odnosi się do ogólnych ram narracji, jej hybrydowego charakteru i jej pozycji liminalnej w punkcie, w którym biografia i autobiografia spotykają się i współdziałają. Ponieważ mediacja jest procedurą kluczową w Fanice, zwrócono uwagę na określenie stopnia mediacji, jej zmienności poprzez narrację, a także jej wpływu na narracyjne podstruktury (segmenty narracyjne). Wreszcie zidentyfikowano, zinterpretowano i osadzono w kontekście kilka wyznaczników płci pojawiających się na różnych poziomach tekstu. Podsumowując, książka miała na celu nie tylko przekazanie świadectwa o Holokauście Faniki Lučić, ale także przedstawienie biograficznego opisu jej życia w socjalistycznej Jugosławii, jej doświadczeń wojny w Bośni i ostatniej fazy jej życia jako imigrantki w Kanadzie. Pamięć międzypokoleniowa i płeć odgrywają kluczową rolę w hybrydowej strukturze tej książki, która wnosi istotny wkład do jugosłowiańskiej literatury Holokaustu.

Out of the Whirlwind Reconsidered

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Michael Berkowitz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mutual Accountability ◽  
Union College

This article argues that Albert Friedlander’s edited book, Out of the Whirlwind (1968), should be recognised as pathbreaking. Among the first to articulate the idea of ‘Holocaust literature’, it established a body of texts and contextualised these as a way to integrate literature – as well as historical writing, music, art and poetry – as critical to an understanding of the Holocaust. This article also situates Out of the Whirlwind through the personal history of Friedlander and his wife Evelyn, who was a co-creator of the book, his colleagues from Hebrew Union College, and the illustrator, Jacob Landau. It explores the work’s connection to the expansive, humanistic development of progressive Judaism in the United States, Britain and continental Europe. It also underscores Friedlander’s study of Leo Baeck as a means to understand the importance of mutual accountability, not only between Jews, but in Jews’ engagement with the wider world.

Black German

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodor Michael
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Second World War ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Second World

This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael. Theodor Michael is the last surviving member of the first generation of ‘Afro-Germans’: Born in Germany in 1925 to a Cameroonian father and a German mother, he grew up in Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic. As a child and teenager he worked in circuses and films and experienced the tightening knot of racial discrimination under the Nazis in the years before the Second World War. He survived the war as a forced labourer, founding a family and making a career as a journalist and actor in post-war West Germany. Since the 1980s he has become an important spokesman for the black German consciousness movement, acting as a human link between the first black German community of the inter-war period, the pan-Africanism of the 1950s and 1960s, and new generations of Germans of African descent. His life story is a classic account of coming to consciousness of a man who understands himself as both black and German; accordingly, it illuminates key aspects of modern German social history as well as of the post-war history of the African diaspora.

scholarly journals Socialism and the Jewish Community in Slovakia

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Salner
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Political Realm

This study is based on data acquired by the oral history method and discusses the reflections of two generations of Jews in relation to the socialist regime in Czechoslovakia (1948–1989). The first generation is represented by people who had survived the Holocaust. The second generation is represented by the ‘children of the Holocaust’ (born 1945–1965). They grew up at a time when the political realm was completely dominated by theCommunist Party. Their attitudes only changed with the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. This probe suggests differences which stem from contrasting life experiences.

scholarly journals [Rev.] Doktorov B.Z. Never Ending Chats with Classics and Contemporaries. A Practice in Historical-Biographical Analysis: Monograph / B.Z. Doktorov. Moscow: TsSPiM publ., 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Larissa A. Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Short Summary ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Early Activity ◽  
Biographical Analysis

The book reviewed in this article is the result of many years of historical-sociological and historical-biographical studies conducted by B.Z. Doktorov. It contains generalizations of certain results of analyzing biographies, while also introducing the reader to the methodology and procedure of the historical-sociological pursuit. The book was written, in the words of the author himself, in the form of a “mental dialog” with the characters of the biographical narrative; it contains methodological clarifications, as well as descriptions of the creation of the texts included within the book. It contains the author’s previously published work, dedicated to American scientists who conducted studies of public opinion (G. Gallup, H. Cantril, D. Ogilvy), as well as Russian sociologists belonging to the four eldest generations (B.A. Grushin, V.A. Yadov, T.I. Zaslavskaya, Y.A. Levada, A.N. Alekseev, V.B. Golofast, G.S. Batygin). The early activity of the first generation is associated with a period of rebirth (second generation) for Russian sociology during the 1950’s and 1960’s. This review describes the origins of B.Z. Doktorov’s interest towards the research problems; a short summary of the book is given; described is the research methodology of a generational approach; also revealed is the importance of B.Z. Doktorov’s work when it comes to the history of Russian sociology and historical-biographical studies.

Increased rate of psychosis among African–Caribbeans in Britain is not due to an excess of pregnancy and birth complications

1997 ◽  
Vol 171 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Hutchinson ◽  
N. Takei ◽  
D. Bhugra ◽  
T. A. Fahy ◽  
C. Gilvarry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Odds Ratio ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Psychotic Illness ◽  
Comparable Group ◽  
Birth Complications ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
History Of ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
Pregnancy And Birth

BackgroundIt has been suggested that the increased rate of psychotic illness among African–Caribbeans living in Britain is due to an excess of pregnancy and birth complications (PBCs).MethodWe therefore compared the frequency of PBCs in a group of White psychotic patients (n=103) and a comparable group of patients of African–Caribbean origin (n=61); the latter consisted of 30 first-generation (born in the Caribbean) and 31 second-generation (born in Britain) individuals.ResultsWhite psychotic patients were more than twice as likely to have a history of PBCs as their African–Caribbean counterparts (odds ratio=2.34, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.88–6.47, P=0.062). The same trend was observed among patients with a DSM–III diagnosis of schizophrenia (odds ratio=l.65, 95% CI 0.56–4.97, P=0.32). The rate of PBCs was similar among the first- and second-generation Caribbean psychotic patients.ConclusionsThe increased rate of psychotic illness that has been reported among the African–Caribbean population in Britain is not due to an increased prevalence of PBCs.

scholarly journals The History of Moslem Intellectuals: A Case Study at UIn Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-344
Author(s):  
Parlindungan Siregar
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Islamic Movements ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Old Order ◽  
Library Research ◽  
History Of

This study aimed to explain that the intellectual community who studied at and was born from the state Institute of Islamic Studies Syarif Hidayatullah (IAIN Jakarta) in the 1970s to 1985 were the second-generation intellectuals who had their own characteristics. As the study was library research, the data collection was done by examining deeply the written documents or literatures that were relevant with the problems being investigated. The obtained data were then qualitatively analyzed by comparing and connecting the existing variables; and inferences were drawn from the findings to get an ideal concept of building a good national and state life based on the Islamic substantial values. The results of the study showed that second generation intellectuals became international intellectuals as Islamic historians in Southeast Asia, theologians, political or socio-economic analysts, and activists of Islamic movements. The study also pointed out that it was not only the first generation that made the second generation successful in their career and studies, but many factors on and off campus contributed significantly, and affect the next generations continuously from time to time. Evidently, in their development, discussion activities of intra-or extra campus organizations, talked not only about Islam but also political issues, such as the old order government policies. The study concluded that the second generation of IAIN Jakarta Intellectual community played many roles in Islamic studies in national and international level. It suggested that studies on the same topis with different points of views are still necessary to conduct.

scholarly journals Hungarian Cookbooks for Israeli Readers: A Comparative Literary-Cultural Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Ilana Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Hebrew Language ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

How long and how strong is Diasporic memory? How many generations can it encompass? How deeply can generations that never lived in the old country relate to its landscape, language, colors and tastes? In the case of Israelis of Hungarian origin, these questions inevitably have to do with the history of Hungarian Jews in the late nineteenth- and early-to-mid twentieth-century, with a focus placed more acutely upon World War II and the Holocaust. Written by a female Israeli researcher of folk and documentary culture who belongs to the second-generation of Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivors, the present article strives to deal with the foregoing and other relevant questions through a comparative literary-cultural analysis of the only two presently existing Hebrew-language Hungarian cookbooks. These two cookbooks were published in Israel in 1987 and 2009, respectively, by two male cultural celebrities, the first by a Hungarian-born journalist, author and politician and the second by an Israeli-born gastronomer and grandson of Hungarian-Israelis.

scholarly journals A brief history of Amazonian research in Polish anthropology

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarzycjusz Buliński ◽  
Mariusz Kairski
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Exhaustive List

In this short article we describe the history of Polish anthropological research in Amazonia, comprising four distinct periods: 1) the work of Polish Amazonia afficionados, 2) the trailblazers, 3) the first generation of Amazonianist scholars, and 4) the research conducted by the second-generation Polish Amazonianists. The text also includes an exhaustive list of research publications, dissertations and translations by Polish scholars belonging to that group.

scholarly journals Historia mojego ojca: zaraz wam odegram… Czyli jak pamięta drugie pokolenie?

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1(70)) ◽  
pp. 197-208
Author(s):  
Sylwia Papier
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Holocaust

My Father’s Story: I’ll Play You Right Away… So How Do the Second Generation Remember? The aim of the article is to discuss the life story of the survivor, Majer Jesion and the joint work of daughter and father on discovering memory and the past, as well as to analyze the result of this work: the spectacle 121 023 J (dir. Ariel Goldmann, Sao Paulo), including the construction of the history and stage spaces with the usage of props to visualize the difficult past. In 2002, Renata Jesion decided to put on stage the traumatic story of her father in which she embodied him on stage. The theater medium serves her in the intergenerational transmission of the memory of the Holocaust. This monodrama will be analyzed in the light of the theory of post-memory (M. Hirsch), testifying through the medium of the theater (G. Niziołek, F. Rokem), and Self-Revelatory Performance (R. Emunah, A. Volkas).

scholarly journals Feminist Interpretations of the Holocaust

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Potter
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
Post Secondary Institution ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
Experiences Of Women

The emergence of the study of the history of the Holocaust following the “silent years”, which occupied nearly two decades of the post-war era, coincided with the establishment of second wave feminism. Despite the creation of the discipline of Women’s and Gender Studies and the emerging variety of women’s history within post secondary institution, discussion of women in the Holocaust did not become a part of the discourse of history until the late seventies. In addition to the lag in addressing  the study of the history of women in the Holocaust, the application of feminist theory to Holocaust history was late to the academic conversation. Feminist history of the Holocaust was finally studied in the early eighties, in order to better understand not only women in the Holocaust but also the Holocaust more generally. However, the discourse failed to evolve and diversify as quickly as other forms of feminist history.   As a result of the perceived exceptionality of the Holocaust within the context of history and even within the more specified picture of the history of  genocide, the application of feminist theory as well as  the understanding of the experiences of women and  the implications of gender within the Holocaust remain relatively stunted within the context of Holocaust and feminist history.

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