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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

📣 CFP for a Special Issue on 'Holocaust Memory Education and the Problem of Coloniality', organised by @drkatrinantweiler.bsky.social & Thomas Van de Putte ⏰ Deadline for abstracts and bios is 1st April 2025 & first versions of the articles October 1st ➡️ www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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Holocaust Memory Education and the Problem of Coloniality

We are seeking contributions for a Special Issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History on the following topic:

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

📣 'Rediscovering the shtetl in the late Soviet period: the Leningrad Jewish Independent Movement of the 1980s and the re-establishment of Jewish studies' by Ulrike Huhn (Göttingen University), investigating abandoned material heritage and immaterial narratives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ilya Dvorkin at the town sign of Volozhin. Photo album of the ‘Journey to Volozhin’ in 1987. Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies.

Figure 3. Leningrad, 1980s. Menia (Michael) Tsiris's wedding. Huppah. The next to the right of the groom is Yitzchak (Izya) Kogan. Ilya Dvorkin (without glasses) stands as the third next to Menia Tsiris. The ceremony is conducted by Avraam Lvovich Medal'e. Credits to the Institute of Jewish Studies St. Petersburg, The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, The National Library of Israel and the Leonid Nevzlin Center for Russian and East European Jewry/ Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Nevzlin Collection. URL: https://www.nli.org.il/en/images/NNL_ALEPH004805351/NLI.

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"A history of overwriting: Jewish cemeteries in postwar Poland, Ukraine and Belarus" by Marta Duch-Dyngosz, Alexander Friedman, Ina Sorkina & Magdalena Waligórska, supported by Gerda Henkel Foundation Read open access now! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Figure 1. Bird-eye view of the historic area of the new Jewish cemetery of Biłgoraj and the smaller, fenced off area preserved to this day, July 2022. Photo: Tomasz Cebulski.

Figure 2. The area of the Jewish cemetery in Iŭje, 2021. Photo: Ina Sorkina.

Figure 3. The area of the flooded Jewish cemetery of Berezne, 2023. Photo: Aleksej Zlatogorskij.

Figure 4. An area used as a meeting point, Jewish cemetery in Biłgoraj, July 2022. Photo: Marta Duch-Dyngosz.

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🏆 The winner of the 2024 author prize for the best research article published in the journal that year is Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill, PhD student in International History at LSE. Read 'Did the Nazis plan to extend the final solution beyond Europe? Assessing the evidence' open access lnkd.in/eT3nfitQ

Image: German troops marching through Tunis in 1943. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

'Discordant necropolitics: survivor-led exhumations and violence against the dead in the early post-Holocaust Poland' This article by Zuzanna Dziuban (@ikwoeaw.bsky.social) is part of the @ercresearch.bsky.social project 'Globalized Memorial Museums' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The ERC project analyzes 50 museums on four continents. (@ Ljiljana Radonić)

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

📣 New publication: 'Death and destruction in Dayvd-Haradok. German crimes, local complicity in the Holocaust, and survivors’ search for justice in a former Polesian shtetl' by Franziska Exeler @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social as part of her special issue www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The administrative division of Soviet Belarus under Nazi occupation, 1941–1944. Map by Mike Bechthold.

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

'Erosive durability: underground architecture of hideouts and their vernacular memory in today’s Poland and Ukraine' introduces Aleksandra Janus and Natalia Romik's artistic research project analysing the materiality & contemporary vernacular memory of hideouts www.tandfonline.com/...

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Magdalena Waligórska & Franziska Exeler's special issue 'After the void: the afterlife of the shtetl in postwar Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine' explores in history, culture, architecture & sociology how non-Jews interact with formerly Jewish spaces. 🔖 Introduction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“The Town on the Trail of Borderland Cultures,” a replica of the wooden synagogue of Volpa, 2015. Photo by Monika Tarajko, digital collection of the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre (www.teatrnn.pl)

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Institut für Kulturwissenschaften @ikwoeaw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New article by #IKW staff member Zuzanna Dziuban: Discordant Necropolitics: Survivor-led Exhumations and Violence against the Dead in Early Pos-Holocaust Poland, in 'Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History', vol. 5|2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Discordant necropolitics: survivor-led exhumations and violence against the dead in the early post-Holocaust Poland

The Holocaust left behind countless bodies – bodies dispersed across the execution sites, former Nazi camps, repurposed Jewish cemeteries; bodies hastily buried at the outskirts of the former shtet...

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

New special issue edited by David Tollerton and Helena Duffy! 'Genocide/ecocide: culture, public debate, language' includes six articles adding to ecocritical and zoocritical perspectives in Holocaust research Read the editors' introduction here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Welcome to the re-launch of the Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History twitter, with some changes to the editorial team, and lots to look forward to for 2023...

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