Ein immer noch fremd anmutendes, von Kriegen und Katastrophen zerklüftetes Gebiet beginnt östlich von Deutschland und erstreckt sich über Russland bis zum Orient. Navid Kermani ist entlang den Gräben gereist, die sich gegenwärtig in Europa neu auftun: von seiner Heimatstadt Köln…
The politics of Holocaust remembrance after communism -- Dots on the frozen Sava River -- Croatia's islands of memory -- The long shadows of Vilna -- The stakes of Holocaust remembrance in the 21st century. "The book explains how contemporary Holocaust remembrance practices in …
Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled--ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated--throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, J…
"This PhD thesis discusses the practices of wealth depositing in the 1st-9th century AD eastern Baltic (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). Wealth deposits are one or more valued object/s that is/are hidden deliberately as an intended separate deposition in a selected place in a specif…
"Folklore in the Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence is about the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the contemporary history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--together called the Baltic countries. They were occupied by Russia, by Germany, and la…
This book explores the diverse ways in which the Christianisation of the Baltic lands were characterised by cultural conflict between Western settlers and institutions on the one hand, and the native peoples on the other.