Commission members participated at the Congress of AIESEE 2025, which was organized in Skopje from 15 until 19 September 2025. The Congress main theme was “Communication and Exchange: South-Eastern Europe within Globat Social, Political and Cultural processes”.
2022, Wydawnictwo DiG
Jednostka: Komisja „Bałkańskie Śródziemnomorze”
“Tijana Vuković was eager to describe and illustrate the place and role of the Yugoslav narrative and legacy in different cultural institutions, thus perplexing them with different economic backgrounds, decision-making strategies and sociocultural and production conditions analysis. Among the official institutions depicted here, these are Serbian Pavilion in Venice (Paviljon Republike Srbije u Veneciji), Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (Muzej savremene umetnosti u Beogradu), Museum of Yugoslavia (Muzej Jugoslavije), and among nonofficial (alternative) ones, these are Centre for Cultural Decontamination (Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju/ CZKD), squat Inex, and alternative cultural center Catch 22 (Kvaka 22). A broader image of “how things really function”, on the field, which is an anthropological insight, is just an introduction to a more vivid form and more complete map of the institutions in Serbia in the post Yugoslav period. Although this seem to be isolated examples, they can function as a common ground for different interpretations of what once happened (or what could happen) with “the Yugoslav Kulturnation” and/or “Yugoslavism”, or any other disintegrated “Ex-Nationalism”, especially regarding its cultural potential.“
Prof. dr sci. Leo Rafolt
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
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
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)
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.
ISBN 978–83–7181–986–5 (DiG)
ISBN 979–10–95627–24–1 (La Rama)
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE RECTOR MAGNIFICUS
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW
Professor Marcin Pałys
FACULTY 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
2nd Warsaw AIESEE International Workshop
7th – 9th November 2016
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Dobra 72, Warsaw
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OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Robert A. Sucharski (Dean of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”)
Răzvan 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
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”
MODERATOR: RẰZVAN 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
MODERATOR: JĘDRZEJ PASZKIEWICZ
AMIKAM 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
MODERATOR: JĘDRZEJ PASZKIEWICZ
AMIKAM 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)
ROUND TABLE
MODERATOR: JONNA ROCK
MARZENA 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)
Agnieszka August-Zarębska (University of Wrocław), Language and Literature of Sephardic Jews. The Balkan Context
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
MODERATOR: KRINKA VIDAKOVIĆ-PETROV
ALEKSANDRA 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
Nadége Ragaru (Sciences PO CERI, Paris), Judging Anti-Jewish Crimes before Nuremberg: The Case of the Bulgarian People’s Court (1944-1945)
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
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
Konstanty Gebert (Gazeta Wyborcza), Wars and Jews in the Balkans: Some Reflections of an Onlooker
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.
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
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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:
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