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Abstract
The Holocaust and other mass killings committed during the Second World War in the Yugoslav territories play a more significant role in current public debates than they do in education and research. 85% of Yugoslavia's Jews were annihilated in the period between 1941 and 1945. In socialist Yugoslavia, it was Holocaust survivors in particular who collected materials that documented the execution of exterminist policies. How has the examination of the Holocaust changed since the dissolution of Yugoslavia; and how have the newly established states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Serbia coped with this part of their history? The author asks whether an exclusive exploration of Jewish suffering is possible—or even desirable—in today's post-Yugoslav societies. She gives an overview of the evolution of a specific 'Yugoslav' approach to the history of the Holocaust, and depicts recent Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian efforts in this field. Furthermore, she looks at what kind of attention the Holocaust in Yugoslavia has received in international Holocaust Studies.

The article provides a critical overview of the state of research on antisemitism in Southeastern Europe and opens several research questions on this field of research.

AbstractThis article explores the journey of Berlin Rabbi Joachim Prinz (1902–1988) to Yugoslavia at the invitation of Zagreb Zionist leader Lavoslav Schick (1881–1941) in late 1935. It examines the transnational cooperation between German and Yugoslav Zionists in the interwar period and their efforts to cope with the plight of German and southeastern European Jewry alike. Although Jewish representatives of different countries cooperated intensively during the interwar period, we know little about it. Thus, this article intervenes in current research on European Jewish history and contributes to a growing interest in the transnational entanglements of European Jewry and Jewish politics in the 1930s and early 1940s by focusing on two important protagonists of Jewish interwar politics in Germany and Yugoslavia.

"This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' dynamics of mass violence, and on the local dimensions of the Holocaust. The approach breaks with the national narratives and 'top-down' political and military histories that continue to be the predominant paradigms for World War Two in this part of Europe"--

HauptbeschreibungDie Entstehung des Antisemitismus im 19. Jahrhundert stellte die jüdische Bevölkerung in Europa vor eine gänzlich neue Situation. Sie sah sich neuartigen Formen von Angriffen, Ausgrenzungen und Anfeindungen ausgesetzt. In einem breiten europäischen Panorama beschreibt das Jahrbuch die politischen und intellektuellen Reaktionen der Juden auf diese Bedrohung. Die Gegenwehr der Juden wird dabei nicht nur in den nationalen Kontexten vorgestellt, es werden auch die transnationalen Verflechtungen diskutiert. Insbesondere das Bild der Juden als wehrlose Opfer wird kritisch hinterfrag.