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To Terezín and Back Again: Czech Jews and their Bonds of Belonging from Deportations to the Postwar
- Author(s):
- Anna Hajkova (see profile)
- Date:
- 2014
- Group(s):
- Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies
- Subject(s):
- Czechs--Social life and customs, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Jews, History
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- 20th Century, Holocaust, identity, czechoslovakia, Czech culture, Holocaust studies, Jewish history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6F06F
- Abstract:
- What was Jewish belonging in Central Europe, and how was it influenced by the Holocaust? This article examines the ways in which Czech Jews negotiated their bonds with Jewishness immediately before, during and after the Second World War. Building on a theoretical framework of affiliation developed by Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper, the essay portrays the differentiation among the Czech Jews in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto. Much of the ideological differences between the groups of Czech Jews were informed by access to resources and also emotional ties which played a key role in the menacing environment surrounding them. Rather than producing common Jewishness, Terezín generated differences. In the immediate postwar, ties to Jewishness were arbitrary and often accidental, only rarely corresponding with one’s previous affinities. The article argues that group belonging is situational and contingent on the social space.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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