Syncrétisme balkanique : pour une approche imagologique et comparatiste
Balkan Syncretism: an imagological and comparative approach

Summary/Abstract: The Balkan region is often associated with war and violence. A consideration of the Balkans, however should not overlook the fact that the Balkans are a crossing where many peoples passed, a process which resulted in the formation of a unique culture in Europe. This short study seeks to emulate the Jewish Byzantine culture in the Balkans and provide an insight into the interdependence of different religions of the Book. Indeed, Jewish intellectuals and mystics, Christians, Muslims and “heretics” have been influenced by the themes of the Other, even though for refutability reasons. Beyond that, one discovers that this Jewish culture of the Balkans was the main witness of the different civilisations in the area, preserving the trace. Further on, the study of Balkan Judaism imposes the revision of the circumstances which influenced it. One discovers a more tolerant world, a world where peoples from different cultures, religions going from pure orthodoxies to the most unbridled syncretism meet, sometimes peaceful, and enrich one another.

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