Strategies of survival: Balkan Jewish women and cultural representations of memory [Preface]

Abstract

"... This issue consists of nine studies written by researchers from several university centres in Poland (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, University of Wrocław, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, University of Opole), Serbia (Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade), Israel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Germany (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). They address “cultural performances of memory,” define strategies for remembering and recovering from so-called “structural amnesia,” describe activities that took place at the borderlands between cultures, and highlight various flows, transfers and limitations, but also the emissive power, of texts written by Balkan Jewish women who worked in the ethnically complicated, transcultural areas of the borderland. The subject of analysis here includes both Slavic (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Yugoslav, and Bulgarian) and non-Slavic (Greek and Albanian) contexts. Most of the texts that comprise this issue are varied and present multi-dimensional and in-depth case studies..."

„... Ovaj broj se sastoji od devet studija koje su napisali istraživači iz nekoliko univerzitetskih centara u Poljskoj (Univerzitet Adama Mickijeviča u Poznanju, Univerzitet u Vroclavu, Univerzitet Nikola Kopernik u Torunju, Univerzitet u Opolju), Srbije (Institut za književnost i umetnost u Beogradu), Izrael (Hebrejski univerzitet u Jerusalimu) i Nemačka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Oni se bave „kulturnim performansama sećanja“, definišu strategije za pamćenje i oporavak od takozvane „strukturalne amnezije“, opisuju aktivnosti koje su se desile na granici između kultura, te ističu različite tokove, transfere i ograničenja, ali i emotivnu moć tekstova balkanskih Jevrejki koje su radile u etnički komplikovanim, transkulturnim, pograničnim područjima. Predmet analize ovde obuhvata i slovenske (srpski, hrvatski, bosanski, jugoslovenski i bugarski) i neslovenske (grčki i albanski) kontekste. Većina tekstova koji obuhvataju ovo pitanje su raznovrsni i predstavljaju višedimenzionalne i detaljne studije slučaja..."