TY - BOOK ID - 78678005 TI - Yellow Star, Red Star : Holocaust Remembrance after Communism PY - 2019 SN - 1501742418 1501742426 9781501742415 9781501742422 9781501742408 150174240X PB - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Memorialization KW - Nationalism and collective memory KW - Post-communism KW - Collective memory and nationalism KW - Collective memory KW - Memorialisation KW - Memorials KW - Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) KW - Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Holocaust, Nazi KW - Ḥurban (1939-1945) KW - Ḥurbn (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) KW - Jews KW - Nazi Holocaust KW - Nazi persecution of Jews KW - Shoʾah (1939-1945) KW - Genocide KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Kindertransports (Rescue operations) KW - Historiography. KW - Influence. KW - Anniversaries, etc. KW - Political aspects KW - Nazi persecution KW - Persecutions KW - Atrocities KW - Jewish resistance KW - Historiography KW - Influence KW - Holocaust, East European politics, East European history, Jewish history, memorialization. KW - HISTORY KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). KW - Nationalism and collective memory. KW - Post-communism. KW - Holocaust. KW - 1939-1945. KW - Eastern Europe. KW - Sociology of culture KW - History as a science KW - Eastern and Central Europe KW - Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) KW - Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) KW - Nazi persecution (1939-1945) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78678005 AB - Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled-ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated-throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism.Yellow Star, Red Star presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. The book demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary "ontological insecurities"-insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As Subotić concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world. ER -