RT Book
T1 Denial and repression of antisemitism: post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović
A1 Byford, Jovan
LA English
PP Budapest New York
PB Central European University Press
YR 2008
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/562151745
AB Introduction -- Materials used in this study -- The life of Nikolaj Velimirović and his changing public image, 1945-2003 -- Denigration and marginalization : Velimirović's status in post-war Yugoslavia -- Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirović's status today -- Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirović and the repression of controversy -- The discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement -- Velimirović in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement myth -- The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirović's suffering and the rise Serbian nationalism -- Remembering in order to forget : the martyrdom myth and repression -- The dynamic of everyday forgetting : continuity and the "routinization" of repression -- From repression to denial : responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to accusations of antisemitism -- Discourse, moral accountability, and the denial of prejudice -- "Serbs have never hated the Jews" : literal denial of antisemitism -- "Parrots," "idiots," and "the mummies of reason" : denial and offensive rhetoric -- Comparing Serbs and Croats and the rhetoric of "competitive martyrdom" : comparative denial of antisemitism -- National self-glorification in a historical context -- Denial of antisemitism and the distancing from "extremism" -- "We are not antisemites, but-- " : denial and the rhetoric of disclaimers -- "He was merely quoting the Bible!" : denial of Velimirović's antisemitism
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index
CN a
SN 963-9776-15-7
SN 978-963-9776-15-9
K1 Velimirović, Nikolaj : 1880-1956
K1 Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva : Bishops : Biography
K1 Orthodox Eastern Church : Serbia : Bishops : Biography
K1 Christian saints : Serbia : Biography