Denial and repression of antisemitism post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimiroviβc /

Main Author: Byford, Jovan.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10235094
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245 1 0 |a Denial and repression of antisemitism  |b post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimiroviβc /  |c Jovan Byford. 
260 |a Budapest ;  |b Central European University Press,  |c 2008.  |a New York : 
300 |a vii, 269 p., [8] p. of plates :  |b ill. (some col.). 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Materials used in this study -- The life of Nikolaj Velimiroviβc and his changing public image, 1945-2003 -- Denigration and marginalization : Velimiroviβc's status in post-war Yugoslavia -- Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimiroviβc's status today -- Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimiroviβc and the repression of controversy -- The discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement -- Velimiroviβc in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement myth -- The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimiroviβc'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 Velimiroviβc's antisemitism -- Rising above the criticisms : refusal to engage in controversy as a form of denial -- "Tiny mosquitoes" and the mighty "eagle" : who has the right to remember Nikolaj Velimiroviβc? -- The letter from "a Jewish woman" : Bishop Nikolaj as the savior of Jews -- The two kinds of antisemitism : the rhetoric of interpretative denial -- Repeating the word of God : authority of the Gospels and the reification of antisemitic discourse -- "Then we are all antisemites!" : "anti-Judaism" and Orthodox Christian identity -- Questionable boundaries between anti-Judaism and antisemitism -- Deicidal justification of Jewish suffering : the Holocaust as divine retribution -- Antisemitism as prophecy : social construction of Velimiroviβc's sanctity -- The first stage of the campaign for canonization : the making of a religious "cult" -- Canonization in the Orthodox Church and the need for divine confirmation of sanctity -- Finding the "right" miracle : incorruptibility of remains and miraculous icons -- The bishop who came "face to face with the living God" : Velimiroviβc and the miracle of epiphany -- Velimiroviβc as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah". 
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