The Balkan Jews and the Minority Issue in South-Eastern Europe seventh book in the series Colloquia Balkanica

The Balkan Jews and the minority issue in South-Eastern Europe

Koedytent: Wydział „Artes Liberales” Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
The volume The Balkan Jews and the Minority Issue in South-Eastern Europe is the first academic publication in Poland (and the world) devoted entirely to the phenomenon of Balkan Jews. The work sets out to present the early and most recent history of Jews in the Balkans to a wide humanities, Polish, Jewish and global audience. Looking from the perspective of today’s changing Europe and the world, it certainly seems worth recording this segment of the history of the Jews, a people who have always been migrants.
In the Balkans there was created a multilevel network of mutual cultural relations including languages, tradition, religion, literature as well as identity. It seems that in this region, which for centuries functioned as a multiethnic and multireligious whole, there emerged a specific model of multiethnic relations based on a kind of balancing between preserving one’s own ethnic distinctness and integrating with the dominant culture. It is not just a double identity – characteristic for Diaspora Jews, but a kind of balancing between preserving his own ethnic Jewish distinctness and integrating with two (or more) other neighbouring cultures […].
The aim of the monograph is to consider the character of relations in the Balkans and the understanding of tolerance in mutual interethnic relations. However, the greatest asset of our volume is its topics, which boldly revise the ambiguous, mendacious discourse of official narratives in the Balkans.
The Balkan Jews
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction (Jolanta Sujecka) strona 11

Răzvan Theodorescu Herzl’s Dream: European Jewry between East and West strona 15

Visul lui Herzl. Evreimea europeană între Est și Vest strona 18

Poglądy Herzla. Europejskie żydowstwo między Wschodem i Zachodem strona 18

OTTOMAN JEWS, SEPHARDI JEWS, BALKAN JEWS

Dragi Ǵorgiev Non-Muslims in Ottoman Society: Ottoman Jews in the Balkans strona 19

Немуслиманите во Османлиската Империја: Османлиските Евреи на Балканот strona 33

Nie-muzułmanie w imperium osmańskim: osmańscy Żydzi na Bałkanach . strona 34

Benedetto Ligorio Connecting Cultures. Cross-cultural Trade Networks of Ragusan Sephardim in the 16th and 17th Centuries . strona 35

Unire le culture. Le reti di commercio interculturale dei sefarditi di Ragusa nel XVI e nel XVII secolo. strona . 46

Łączenie kultur. Międzykulturowe sieci handlowe Sefardyjczyków z Raguzy w XVI i XVII wieku strona 46

Wojciech Sajkowski The Image of the Balkan Jews in French Travelogues in the 19th Century . strona 47

Obraz Żydów bałkańskich we francuskich książkach podróżniczych z XIX wieku . strona . 56

Paweł Michalak The Jews and the So-Called Jewish Question in Yugoslavia During the Reign of King Aleksandar Karađorđević (1921–1934) According to the Newspaper Politika strona 57

Żydzi i tzw. kwestia żydowska w Jugosławii w okresie panowania króla Aleksandra Karađorđevicia (1921–1934) na łamach dziennika „Politika” . strona . 69

Bojan Mitrović Submergence Before Socialism? The Jews of Serbia and Serb and Yugoslav Nation-Building from Hajim Davičo (1854–1916) to David Albala (1886–1942) . strona . 71

Submergence (Uronjenost) pre socijalizma? Jevreji Srbije i stvaranje srpske i jugoslovenske nacije od Hajima Daviča (1854–1916) do Davida Albale (1886–1942) . strona. 85

Submergence (Zanurzenie) przed socjalizmem? Żydzi z Serbii a powstanie serbskiego i jugosłowiańskiego narodu od Hajima Daviča (1854–1916) do Davida Albali (1886–1942) . strona. 86

Irina Ognyanova Jewry-Related Discourse in Bulgaria in the Interwar Period . strona. 87

Евреите в България в периода между Първата и Втората световна война strona. 105

Żydzi w Bułgarii w okresie między pierwszą i drugą wojną światową . strona. 106

Pedro Bádenas de la Peña The Taboo on Collaboration and Indiff erence During the Holocaust in Greece strona. 107

El Tabú del Colaboracionismo y la Indiferencia Durante el Holocausto en Grecia strona 123

Tabu kolaboracji i obojętności w Grecji czasów Holokaustu strona 123

Amikam Nachmani Greeks, Jews, Greece, Israel: The 1940s Greek Civil War as a Microcosm strona 125

1949 :סמל ליחסים בין יוונים, יהודים, יוון, וישראל – 133 . . . . . . מלחמת האזרחים ביוון, 1946 Wojna domowa w Grecji (1946–1949): symbol relacji pomiędzy Grekami, Żydami, Grecją i Izraelem . strona 133

JEWISH CITY AND IDENTITY ISSUES

Andreas K. Bouroutis From Thriving Community to Minority: The Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and the Incorporation of the City into the Greek State . strona. 135

Από ευημερούσα κοινότητα σε μειονότητα: Η εβραϊκή κοινότητα της Θεσσαλονίκης και η ενσωμάτωση της πόλης στο ελληνικό κράτος . strona 146

Od kwitnącej społeczności do mniejszości: Żydzi saloniccy a włączenie Salonik do państwa greckiego . strona 148

Emanuela Costantini Compromise or Denial? Bucharest Jews in the Romanian Nation State . strona 149

Compromesso o rifi uto? Gli ebrei di Bucarest nello stato nazionale rumeno . strona . 160

Kompromis czy odrzucenie? Żydzi z Bukaresztu w rumuńskim państwie narodowym strona. 161

Tijana Zebić The Jewish Community in Pirot: Public and Religious Identity in the Balkan Ottoman Town from the Tanzimat Reform Period to the First World War . strona. . 163

Jevrejska zajednica u Pirotu: Javni i verski identitet u Osmansko- -Balkanskom gradu od tanzimatskih reformi do Prvog svetskog rata . strona 178

Społeczność żydowska w Pirocie: tożsamość publiczna i religijna w mieście osmańsko-bałkańskim od reform tanzimatu do pierwszej wojny światowej . strona . 179

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: GREEK, OTTOMAN, SEPHARDI, AND YUGOSLAV JEWS

Agnieszka August-Zarębska The Language of Sephardic Jews: History and Main Characteristics . strona 181

Język Żydów sefardyjskich — historia i charakterystyczne cechy . strona . 203

Aleksandra Twardowska The Status of Judeo-Spanish in Yugoslavia until 1941 . strona. 205

Status żydowsko-hiszpańskiego w Jugosławii do 1941 . strona. 218

Agata Grzybowska-Wiatrak Hecataeus of Abdera and the First Greek-Jewish Literary Encounters in the Hellenistic Period . strona 219

Hekatajos z Abdery i pierwsze literackie spotkania Greków z Żydami w okresie hellenistycznym . strona 230

Magdalena Matuszewska Jewish Sacred Poetry in the Ottoman Empire and an Unpublished Manuscript from the Collection of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw . strona. 231

Żydowska poezja sakralna Imperium Osmańskiego a niepublikowany rękopis z kolekcji Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Warszawie . 236

WARS MEMORY AND IDENTITY

Krinka Vidaković-Petrov Jewish Identity in Yugoslavia Before and After the Holocaust . strona 237

Јеврејски идентитет у Југославији пре и после Холокауста . strona. 256

Tożsamość żydowska w Jugosławii przed Holokaustem i po nim . strona . 257

Katarzyna Taczyńska Counterpointing of Memory: The Image of World War II in the Diaries of Lea Salcberger and Ervin Salcberger . . strona. 259

Kontrapunkty pamięci: obraz drugiej wojny światowej w dziennikach Lei Salcberger i Ervina Salcbergera . strona. 272

Konstanty Gebert (Dawid Warszawski) Jews and Wars in the Balkans: Refl ections of an Onlooker strona 273

Wojny i Żydzi na Bałkanach — refl eksje obserwatora . strona. 284

Jonna Rock The Sephardim in Sarajevo and Their Refl ections on the Crises, Antisemitism and Islamization of Today . strona. 285

Sefarderna i Sarajevo och deras refl ektioner kring ekonomisk kris, antisemitism och islamisering av Bosnien idag . strona . 303

Żydzi sefardyjscy w Sarajewie i ich refl eksje wobec obecnych kryzysów, antysemityzmu i islamizacji . strona . 304

MIGRATION ISSUE AND ETHNIC POLICY

Shaban Sinani International Acts Facilitating the Emigration of Jews to Albania between the Two World Wars . strona 305

Disa akte ndërkombëtare që lehtësuan emigrimin e hebrenjve në Shqipëri në periudhën midis dy Luftërave Botërore . . strona . 321

Niektóre akty międzynarodowe ułatwiające emigrację Żydów do Albanii w okresie między dwiema wojnami światowymi . strona. 322

Bojan Aleksov Jewish Refugees in the Balkans: Entangled Perspectives on World War II and the Holocaust . strona. 327

Jevrejske izbeglice na Balkanu: Isprepletane perspektive na Drugi svetski rat i Holokaust (nacrt istraživanja) . strona. 338

Żydowscy uciekinierzy na Bałkanach: splecione perspektywy oglądu drugiej wojny światowej i Holokaustu (zarys problematyki badań) strona. 339

Alexander Novik The Jewish Population in Albania and Kosovo in the 20th Century : Historical Presence and Modern Situation . strona 341

Евреи в Албании и Косово в ХХ в.: историческое присутствие и современная ситуация . strona . 356

Żydzi w Albanii i Kosowie w XX wieku — w przeszłości i dziś . . strona 357

Kyrillos Nikolaou A Comparative Study on Migration Issues in the Balkan Context of the Ottoman Empire : The Cases of Ottoman Greeks and Ottoman Jews . strona . 359

Συγκριτική μελέτη του φαινομένου της μετανάστευσης στο βαλκανικό πλαίσιο της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας: Οι περιπτώσεις των Ελλήνων και Εβραίων υπό οθωμανική κυριαρχία . . . strona 368

Studium porównawcze migracji na Bałkanach w Imperium Otomańskim: przypadki Greków oraz Żydów za panowania Osmanów . . strona 369

MINORITY ISSUE AND STATE POLICY IN THE POST-COMUNISTIC ERA

Maja Savić-Bojanić Examining the Formal Political Participation of Jews in Post-Dayton

Formalno Političko Učešće Jevreja u Post-Dejtonovskoj Bosni i Hercegovini: o Vrstama Učesnika u Politici . strona. 395

Formalne Uczestnictwo Polityczne Żydów w Post-Daytońskiej Bośni i Hercegowinie: o Rodzajach Uczestników w Polityce . strona 396

Yorgos Christidis The Jewish Community in Post-Communist Bulgaria: State Policy and Community Evolution strona . 399

Η εβραϊκή κοινότητα στη μετά-κομμουνιστική Βουλγαρία: Κρατική πολιτική και κοινοτική εξέλιξη . strona . 411

Społeczność żydowska w postkomunistycznej Bułgarii — Polityka państwa a rozwój społeczności . strona . 412

Mirella Korzeniewska-Wiszniewska Elements of Slovenia’s Ethnic Policy in the Face of European Regulations on Minorities . strona 413

Elementy słoweńskiej polityki etnicznej w świetle europejskiej regulacji strona. 420

Natalia Golant Mutual Infl uences in the Family Rites of Moldavian Jews and Their Neighbors (According to Materials from Fieldwork in the Republic of Moldova) . strona. . 421

Взаимовлияния в семейной обрядности молдавских евреев и их соседей (по материалам полевых исследований в Республике Молдова) . strona. . . . 426

Wzajemne wpływy mołdawskich Żydów i ich sąsiadów w sferze obrzędowości rodzinnej (na podstawie badań terenowych w Republice Mołdawskiej) . strona. 427

Dzmitry Shavialiou Is There a Jewish Revival in Moldova? . strona 429

Есть ли еврейское возрождение в Молдове? . strona 441

Czy w Mołdawii mamy do czynienia z odrodzeniem żydowskim? . strona 442

Index of names . . strona . 443

wydanie I, Warszawa 2021
B5
ISBN: 978-83-286-0150-5

Wojciech Sajkowski’s book sixth in the series Colloquia Balkanica

The existing literature on the subject, which depicted the Western discovery of the “Wild Europe”, encompasses some of the most important aspects of this very broad issue. However, some of the very important problems did not get as much attention as they deserved. Among them one can mention the question of the French contribution to shaping the Western European image of the Balkan peoples. The French were vitally interested in the matters of that part of Europe, and even reigned the considerable part of the territory which was later named the Balkans. This episode, which started with the Napoleonic occupation of Dalmatia in 1806 and was followed by its further expansion in 1809 and creation of the Illyrian Provinces, ended very quickly, in 1813. The ephemeral nature of the Illyrian Provinces, and the short presence of the French in the area of the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea in general, is perhaps the reason why the researchers who investigated the evolution of the idea of the Balkans ignored this episode of the Napoleonic reign in Southeastern Europe. This monograph aims to fill this gap and strives to supplement more general studies on that matter. Due to their ethnic versatility, the Illyrian Provinces are an excellent subject of research on the Western depictions of the Southeastern European populations. It is also an interesting research subject in terms of the discussion on the view on the borders of the Balkans, or the Orient of Europe.

Lecture by Prof. Amikam Nachmani

The Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University Of Warsaw
The Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History (Aiesee)
The Balkan Mediterranean Commission

cordially invite you to attend a lecture by

Professor AMIKAM NACHMANI
Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan Israel

Greece-Israel-Turkey; Orthodox Christians-Jews-Muslims: Discord and Cooperation in the East Mediterranean

 

The lecture and discussion will take place as part of the seminar of Professor SHEVAH WEISS
(Centre for Research on Modern Israel, Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies, University of Warsaw), who will be the Chair.

Participants of the discussion:

KONSTANTY GEBERT and PRZEMYSŁAW KORDOS, PhD (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”).

8 May 2018, 4.45 p.m., 67/69 Nowy Świat St.,
Lecture Theatre (right side from Nowy Świat St., ground floor)

CV Amikam Nachmani

Katarzyna Taczynska’s book fifth in the series Colloquia Balkanica

Katarzyna Taczyńska

A Joke That Stretched for Two and a Half Years.
The Portrait of Goli otok in Serbian Literary
and Historical Discourse at the End of the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st Century

For years the topic of communist prison camps in Yugoslavia had been absent from the public media both in the country itself and abroad. A real breakthrough occurred as late as in the 1980s with the publication of the memoirs of former prisoners that depicted the experiences of their stay in the camp. There is a range of publications, both memoirs and fiction, dominated by the issue of the past prison experiences. However, there is an actual lack of critical texts, particularly historical and literary or cultural, focusing on the analysis of literary representations of repressions in communist Yugoslavia. The main aim of this book is to show that in Serbia both documentaries and literature are significant media in reflection on Goli otok labour camp, and to trace the ways of remembering and transmitting memories of this historical experience.

Colloquia-tom5

ISBN 978–83–7181–986–5 (DiG)
ISBN 979–10–95627–24–1 (La Rama)

wyd. I, Warszawa
Format B5, ok. s. 320
ISBN: 978-83-7181-986-5
EAN: 9788371819865

2nd Warsaw AIESEE International Workshop Program

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UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE RECTOR MAGNIFICUS
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW
Professor Marcin Pałys

University_of_Warsaw_Universitas_Varsoviensis.pngFACULTY OF “ARTES LIBERALES”
UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW

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ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE
D’ÉTUDES DU SUD-EST EUROPÉEN (AIESEE)
POLISH COMMISSION OF BALKAN CULTURE AND HISTORY

Logo Polish Balkanology

2nd Warsaw AIESEE International Workshop

The Balkan Jews & the Minority Issue in South-Eastern Europe

 

7th – 9th November 2016
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Dobra 72, Warsaw

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MONDAY 7 NOVEMBER

  • 8:30 – 9:00   REGISTRATION
  • 9:00 – 10:30

OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Robert A. Sucharski (Dean of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”)
R
ăzvan Theodorescu (Secretary General of AIESEE)
Jolanta Sujecka (Chair of the Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Răzvan Theodorescu (Secretary General of AIESEE) Herzl’s dream. European Jewry between East and West
Dragi Gjorgiev (Institute of National History, Republic of Macedonia) Non-Muslims in ottoman society: Ottoman Jews in the Balkan

  •  10:30 – 11:45   SESSION I

MODERATOR: RĂZVAN THEODORESCU

Benedetto Ligorio (Sapienza University of Rome), Connecting cultures, cross-cultural trade networks of Ragusan Sephardim in 16th and 17th centuries
Wojciech Sajkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), The image of the Balkan Jews in French travelogues in 19th century
Kujtim Nuro (Turkish and Ottoman Studies Association, Toronto), Jewish population in Albanian territories according to Ottoman yearbooks (1870 – 1912)
Miloš M. Damjanović (University in Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica), The status of Jews in Kosovo and Metohija and Relations towards other Peoples in the Final Decades of the Ottoman Occupation (1876-1912)
Paweł Michalak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), The Jews and the so-called “Jewish question” in the interwar Yugoslavia according to the newspaper “Politika”

  •  11:45 – 12:05 DISCUSSION
  •  12:05 – 12:20 COFFEE BREAK
  •  12:20 – 13:20 SESSION II

MODERATOR: RZVAN THEODORESCU

Bouroutis Andreas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), ”From a thriving community to a minority”. The Jewish commu nity of Thessaloniki and the incorporation of the city to the Greek state
Shaban Sinani (The Academy of Sciences of Albania), Quelque actes internationaux atténuant l’entrée des juifs en Albanie pendant les deux guerres mondiales/ Some international acts that facilitated the emigration of Jews to Albania in the period between the two World Wars
Artan Puto (European University Institute, Florence), The League of Nations projects on Jewish settlements in Albania (1934-1935)
Irina  Lyubomirova  Ognyanova  (Bulgarian  Academy  of  Sciences), Jewry-related Discourse in Bulgaria in the Interwar Period

  •  13:20- 13:40 DISCUSSION
  •  13:40 – 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
  •  15:00 – 15:45 SESSION III

MODERATOR: JĘDRZEJ PASZKIEWICZ
A
MIKAM NACHMANI

Amikam Nachmani (Bar Ilan University), Greeks, Jews, Greece, Israel: The 1940s Greek Civil War as a Microcosm
Olimpia Dragouni (Humboldt University of Berlin), The narratives on Jews: Bosnian Muslims between SS Handżar and Sarajevo Resolution
Jonna Rock (Humboldt University of Berlin), A Sephardic Story from Sarajevo

  •  15:45 – 16:00 DISCUSSION
  •  16:00 – 16:15 COFFEE BREAK
  •  16:15 – 17:00 SESSION IV

MODERATOR: JĘDRZEJ PASZKIEWICZ
A
MIKAM NACHMANI

Guido Franzinetti (University of Eastern Piedmont), Albanian Jews in Communist Albania and after: a historical overview
Alexander Novik (Russian Academy of Sciences), Jewish population in Albania in the 20th century: historical presence and modern situation
Natalia Golant (Russian Academy of Sciences), Mutual Influences in the Family Rites of Moldavian Jews and Their Neighbors (According to the Materials of Fieldwork in the Republic of Moldova)

  •  17:00- 17:10 DISCUSSION
  •  17:10- 18:30 SESSION V

ROUND TABLE
MODERATOR: JONNA ROCK
M
ARZENA MACIULEWICZ

Tullia Catalan (University of Trieste), The Jewish Philanthropic Associations of Western Europe and the Question of Serbian And Romanian Jews (1878-1920)
Emanuela Constantini (University of Perugia), Compromise or denial? Bucharest Jews in the Romanian nation-state.
Bojan Mitrović (University of Trieste), The Struggle for Social Recognition of Belgrade Jews after 1878: Life and Works of Haim S. Davičo (1854-1916) and David Albala (1886-1942) in a Comparative Context
Aleksandar Kadijević (University of Belgrade), Between national style and modern reform: Jewish civil engineers and architects in Serbia (1900-1941)

  •  18:30-19:15  RACHEL KESSELMAN (PRESIDENT-FOUNDER   OF   ‘YIDDELE MEMORY’), PRESENTATION OF RADOMSKO, THE FIRST JEWISH OPEN AIR MUSEUM IN EUROPE

TUESDAY 8 NOVEMBER

  • 9:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Agnieszka August-Zarębska (University of Wrocław),   Language and Literature of Sephardic Jews. The Balkan Context

  •  10:00 – 11:30 SESSION VI

MODERATOR: AGNIESZKA AUGUST-ZARĘBSKA

Agata Grzybowska (University of Warsaw), Hecataeus of Abdera and the first Greek-Jewish Literary Encounters in the Hellenistic Period
Magdalena Matuszewska (University of Warsaw), Jewish Sacred Poetry in the Ottoman Empire on the Basis of Manuscript from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw
Michael Halévy (The Institute for the History of the German Jews, IGDJ), A Sefardi kina (endecha) from Karnobat, Bulgaria
Floresha Dado (The Academy of Sciences of Albania), The Pretty Jevrenija and Qyste Jahudia in the Albanian Epos of the Warriors
Krzysztof Usakiewicz (University of Warsaw), The Image of a Jew in Karaghiozis Greek Shadow Theatre
Aleksandra Twardowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), The Status of Judeo-Spanish in Yugoslavia until 1941

  •  11:30 – 11:45 DISCUSSION
  •  11:45 – 12:00 COFFEE BREAK
  •  12:00 – 13:00 SESSION VII

MODERATOR: KRINKA VIDAKOVIĆ-PETROV
A
LEKSANDRA TWARDOWSKA

Katarzyna Taczyńska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), “I had a turbulent past…”: Jewish issues in Ženi Lebl’s au tobiographical prose
Przemysław Kordos (University of Warsaw), The Jews of Ioannina in the Dimitris Chatzis’s prose
Magdalena Koch (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), ‘The Sephardic Woman in Bosnia’: Intercultural Survival Strategies (Laura Papo Bohoreta – Muhamed Nezirovi ć – Gordana Kuić)
Ljiljana Dobrovšak (Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar), The Croatian Zionist magazine “Židov” and Bosnian Sephardic

  •  13:00 – 13:20 DISCUSSION
  •  13:20 – 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
  •  15:00 – 16:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Nadége Ragaru (Sciences PO CERI, Paris), Judging Anti-Jewish Crimes before Nuremberg: The Case of the Bulgarian People’s Court (1944-1945)

  •  16:00 – 16:45 SESSION VIII

MODERATOR: NADÉGE  RAGARU

Pedro Badenas (Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean, Madrid), The Taboo on collaboration and Indifference during the Holocaust in Greece
Bojan Aleksov (School  of  Slavonic  and  East  European  Studies  UCL), Jewish Refugees in the Balkans: Entangled Perspectives on Second World War and the Holocaust
Vladimir Iliescu (University Aachen), The rescue of a third of the Jewish Population of Cernăuţi (Romania) from the deportation to Transnistria

  •  16:45 – 17:00 DISCUSSION
  •  17:00 – 17:15 COFFEE BREAK
  •  17:15 – 18:00 SESSION IX

MODERATOR: NADÉGE  RAGARU

Marco Clementi (University of Calabria), The Rhodes Jewish Community under the Italian Rule. From Control to Deportation.
Jolanta Mindak-Zawadzka (University of Warsaw), Jews and Albanians. Prolegomena.
Kateřina Králová (Charles University in Prague), Greeks or Jews? The Problem of Jewish Identity and Citizenship in Post-War Greece

  •  18:00 – 18:20 DISCUSSION

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER

  • 9:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Konstanty Gebert (Gazeta Wyborcza), Wars and Jews in the Balkans: Some Reflections of an Onlooker

  •  10:00 – 11:15 SESSION X

MODERATOR: KONSTANTY GEBERT

Tijana Zebić (University of Belgrade), Jewish community in Pirot: Public and religious identity in the Balkan Ottoman town from the Tansimat reforms period to the WWI
Mateusz    Maleszka   (Nicolaus   Copernicus   University   in   Toruń), Acculturation of Galician Jews in Bosnia
Krinka Vidaković-Petrov (University of Belgrade), Jewish Identity in Yugoslavia Before and After the Shoah
Kyrillos Nikolaou (Paris-Sorbonne University), Changing geopolitics and the Migrations in the eve of the 20th century: Balkan Jews, Balkan Greeks
Răzvan Mitu (University of Craiova), Ethnic-Political Relationships in Post-Communist Bulgaria.

  •  11:15 – 11:30 DISCUSSION
  •  11:30 – 11:45 COFFEE BREAK
  •  11:45 – 13:00 SESSION XI

MODERATOR: KONSTANTY GEBERT

Yorgos Christidis (University of Macedonia), The Jewish community in post-Communist Bulgaria. State policy and community evolution.
Denis S. Ermolin (Russian Academy of Sciences), Jewish Cemeteries in Pristina (Kosovo) as Places of Memory
Ivana Manić & Miloš Manić (University of Niš),  The case of Jewish cemetery in Niš
Mirella Korzeniewska-Wiszniewska (Jagiellonian University), Ethnic policy of Slovenia in the face of European regulations on minorities
Dzmitry Shavialiou (Belarusian State University),  Jews of Moldova in the post-Soviet era

  •  13:00 – 13:15 DISCUSSION
  •  13:15 – 13:40 CLOSING REMARKS
  •  13:40 – 16:00 LUNCH BREAK
  • 17:00 – 20:00 POLIN – VISIT TO THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS

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INFORMATION

Dear Participants,
We kindly remind you that you have 15 minutes for your lecture.
We intend to print the materials in the 6th number of “Colloquia Balkanica”.
The  standardized  text  in  English,  up  to  15  pages  in  MS  WORD .doc or .docx format, should be sent to the organizers by 30th of January 2017 at the address given below:

jolanta.sujecka@al.uw.edu.pl

m.maciulewicz@student.uw.edu.pl

 

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Colloquia Balkanica vol. 4 has been published

The Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History informs colleagues that fourth volume of the series Colloquia BalkanicaThe Image of Russia in the Balkans” (edited by Jolanta Sujecka and Krzysztof Usakiewicz) has been published in Warsaw by Wydawnictwo DiG.

ISBN 978–83–7181–972–8 (DiG)
ISBN 979–10–95627–15–9 (La Rama)
EAN: 9788371819728

Table of Contents

From the Introduction:
“In some aspects, The Image of Russia in the Balkans continues the first book in the series, The Semantics of Russia in the Balkans, though the present volume definitely contains more extensive material and covers more issues. The image of Russia presented in the papers making up the volume, though multi-themed, seems to split into two main types depending on ethnogenesis and language on the one hand and religion on the other. One might think that there is a Slavic image of Russia, which involves the Slavic cultures of the Balkans, and an Orthodox image, which is Greek and to some degree Albanian and Romanian. This would be the result of the dual discourse developed by Russia with regard to the Balkans that Pedro Bádenas de la Peña writes about.
Meanwhile, Balkan images of Russia create more of a multi-layered structure subordinated to Balkan cultural perception while also conducting a dialogue with Russia and its legacy. Developing from the Byzantine tradition, the Balkans and Russia essentially form a space of mutual ties that goes far beyond the cliché of liberator and liberated.
Opening up to influences coming from South-Eastern Europe in times when the Ottoman threat was increasing, Russia in a way repaid its “debt” incurred in the early 18th century by sending teachers and books to the Habsburg town of Karlowitz (Sremski Karlovci, Karlovatz). (…)
Thus everything came full circle: having taken in refugees from South-Eastern Europe, Russia (…) returned to Turkish Europe, to the Balkans, as a player but also an ideologue, wanting to liberate but also to decide. The only thing is, contrary to the European powers, Russia was a part of that world, which is why its role in the Balkans was different, and this is what the present volume sets out to show.”

 

 

CfP: 2nd Warsaw AIESEE International Workshop

2nd Warsaw AIESEE International Workshop

“The Balkan Jews & the Minority Issue in South-Eastern Europe”

Organized by the Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History
Faculty of “Artes Liberales” University of Warsaw

Warsaw 7th – 9th November 2016

Call for Papers

The Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History as a full member of Association Internationale d’Etudes du Sud-Est Européen (AIESEE) has existed since the 10th Congress of AIESEE in Paris held in 2009. In 2011, the Commission organized the first AIESEE Conference “The Image of Russia in the Balkans”.

The second AIESEE Warsaw Conference designed as an educational workshop is dedicated to the topic of Balkan Jews. The minority issue should not only be considered as a significant context for the main topic but also as an exemplification of Balkan specific and unique character which is a result of linguistic and cultural convergence.

In the Balkans a multilevel network of mutual cultural relations has been created including language, tradition, religion, literature as well as identity. It seems that in the region which has functioned as a multiethnic and multireligious whole for the centuries, a specific model of multiethnic relations appeared, based on balancing between preserving own ethnic distinctness and integrating with the dominant culture.

The aim of this workshop is to discuss the character of relations in the Balkans and to understand tolerance in mutual interethnic relations. During the discussion we would like to focus on the following topics:

• Jews’ status in the Ottoman Empire and interethnic relations in the Balkans
• Sephardic culture and its intercultural relations in the Balkans: literature, language, religion
• Legacy of multiethnic empire and the minority issue in the Balkan countries as a context for Shoah
• Jews’ identity in the Balkans after Shoah, Yugoslav context
• Jewish minorities in the contemporary Balkan countries (EU policy toward minorities and current authorities’ attitude toward Jewish communities contexts)

Sessions will take place in the morning and afternoon of 7th, 8th and 9th November 2016 at the Faculty “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw. The guest speakers on this occasion will be:

Dragi Gjorgiev (Institute of National History Republic of Macedonia)
Agnieszka August-Zarębska (Faculty of Philology, Institute of Romance Studies, the University of Wrocław)
Nadege Ragaru (Sciences PO CERI – France)
Konstanty Gebert (Gazeta Wyborcza)

The working language of the Workshop is English. For each academic paper on the aforementioned topics that is accepted will be allocated a slot of a maximum 20 minutes.

We kindly ask each Committee member of AIESEE to recommend specialists for this conference. All proposals should be sent to the General Secretariat of AIESEE: office@aiesee.org and to the Secretary of the Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History, Mrs. Marzena Maciulewicz: ma.maciulewicz@gmail.com.

We kindly ask all interested applicants to submit abstract (approximately 1000 words) as well as personal and represented institution data.

Deadline for sending topics: 15th February 2016

Deadline for submitting abstracts: 31st March 2016

Announcement for successful paper: 9th May 2016

Accommodation, travel and food expenses are expected to be covered by the participant or its affiliated institution.

We plan to publish materials in the book series “Colloquia Balkanica”.

Looking forward to receiving your recommendations, we send you the warmest regards.