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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK - Yellow Star\, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Co
 mmunism - Professor Jelena Subotic (Georgia State University)
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DESCRIPTION:Yellow Star\, Red Star (Cornell University Press\, forthcoming
 ) asks why Holocaust memory continues to be fraught – ignored\, appropri
 ated\, or obfuscated - throughout Eastern Europe\, the principal location 
 of the Holocaust. As part of European Union accession process\, JelenaSubo
 tić shows\, East European states were required to adopt\, participate in 
 and contribute to the already established Western narrative of the Holocau
 st. This has created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states\, bec
 ause this Holocaust memory has replaced the centrality of communist terror
  as the dominant narrative of the 20th century in Eastern Europe with a ne
 w focus on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing Eur
 opean Union’s own memory politics and legislation in the process\, post-
 communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuin
 g new strategies of Holocaust remembrance where the memory\, symbols\, and
  imagery of the Holocaust become appropriated to represent crimes of commu
 nism.\nBased on extensive fieldwork and analysis of museums and memorials\
 , history textbooks\, and public commemorations\, Yellow Star\, Red Star p
 resents in-depth case studies of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia
 \, Croatia\, and Lithuania\, and then extends the discussion to other East
  European states. The book demonstrates how countries of the region used H
 olocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary
  “ontological insecurities” – insecurities about their identities\, 
 about their international status\, and about their relationships with othe
 r international actors. Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe was never eithe
 r about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past – during 
 communism or in its aftermath - but instead about managing national identi
 ties in a precarious and uncertain world.\nSponsored by POLIS\, hosted by 
 Dr Ayşe Zarakol
LOCATION:S1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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