Memory Cultures in Southeast Europe since 1945

Christian Voss is head of the Department for South Slavic Studies at Humboldt University since 2006. He earned his PhD in 1996 on Church Slavonic in the Balkans and his habilitation in 2004 on Slavic minorities in Greece.Sabina Ferhadbegović is a historian and lecturer at the University of Jena. She holds a PhD awarded by Albert Ludwig’s University in Freiburg. In 2022 she finished her habilitation on the prosecution of war crimes in the aftermath of the Second World War in Yugoslavia.Kateřina Králová is associate professor of Contemporary History and Head of the Research Centre for Memory Studies at the Institute of International Studies, Charles University (CUNI). Králová, an alumna of Phillips University Marburg, has been awarded major international fellowships, including from the Alexandervon Humboldt Foundation, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, and USHMM, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship at Yale University.

• Christian Voß, Sabina Ferhadbegović, Kateřina Králová Introduction – Holocaust and Antisemitism Esilda Luku Holocaust Memory in History Textbooks for Secondary Education: The Case of Albania – Kateřina Králová Memory Landscapes in Ruins: The Example of the Hirsch Quarter in Thessaloniki – Ioannis Stylianidis Antisemitism without Jews in Kavala during Populism – Alexios Ntetorakis Victims, Bystanders, Collaborators. Refugees from the Bulgarian-occupied Zone in Thessaloniki during the Holocaust – Michael Ilg „Juden und andere Patrioten“? – Konkurrierende Erinnerungsnarrative an die Vernichtung der jüdischen Bevölkerung Brčkos seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg – Memories of Tito's Yugoslavia - Claudia Meyr-Veselinović Brüderlichkeit, Einheit und pionirska – Novi Partizani 2.0 Re- oder Upcycling? Über die Wiederverwendung von bekannten Melodien und Texten – Vukašin Zorić Supporting Liberation, Exporting Revolution: The Role of Memory in the Cooperation between SUBNOR and the Third World Veteran and Anti-Colonial Organizations – Nataša Jagdhuhn The Yugoslav Heritage-Industry – Roswitha Kersten-Pejanić Lands of (Banal) Nationalism: Epistemological Issues in the Classification of Nationalism(s) in a Post-conflict Semiotic Landscape – Memory Wars in the National Discourse - Anjeza Xhaferaj Making and Breaking Friends – Discursive Strategies of the Party of Labor of Albania in Making and Breaking Alliances during Communism – Francesco Trupia Decolonising Bulgaria’s Official Amnesia: A Pericentric Approach to Minority Memories of Anti-Communist Resistance – Barbara Törnquist-Plewa Populist Memory Discourses in Contemporary East Central and Southeastern Europe – Their Roots and Main Features – Melinda Harlov-Csortán The Role of the Location in Forming the Narration about Memorials. Two Representational Squares in the Hungarian Capital during the Cold War – Christian Voß Die Erinnerungskultur der mazedonischen Bürgerkriegsflüchtlinge aus Griechenland zwischen Indigenismus und ethnischem Transnationalismus – Writing Memory Culture - Johanna Paul Stockholm-Syndrom in der Schwedischen Akademie? Die Proteste gegen die Verleihung des Literatur-Nobelpreises an Peter Handke – Mihaela Gligor Memories in Writing. On the Importance of Correspondence for Recovering History