Mirjam Rajner studies this process in development of three generations of Russian Jews, with Chagall at its apogee, in her study titled The Awakening of Jewish National Art.
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Stephen Lubell, through the portrait of Joseph Tcherkassky, orientalist and typographer, provides an insight into the typographical problems of the Hebrews letters.
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Keywords: Ephraim Moses Lilien
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János Kőbányai writing on the Imre Kádár exhibit and album by the Mű-Terem Galéria, explores the centrality of history of Hungarian Jews and its special situation in Hungarian society to the understanding of an artist who avoided Jewish themes.
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Rudolf Klein examines the impact of orientalism of the synagogue construction of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, using point of view that stands in contrast with that of most historians of architecture.
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Mendelsohn analyzes Matesko and Gottlieb's relationship, the relationship of Jews and non-Jows in art and the connection f each to his own history.
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Mária Egri, one of Imre Ámos' first and greatest discover and propagator recalls with biographical authenticity the memories that cnneced her to Imre Ámos and she maps the sources of Imre Ámos documents which will provide an important dimension in the assessment of the artist's ouevre.
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The study by Edit Balas titled "The Holocaust in Valentin Lustig' Painted Works," introduces a Transylvanian artists living in Holland.
More...Keywords: identity; identification; transition; losers; winners
Post-socialist transformation in Serbia has introduced various changes and novelties including a formation of special categories of losers and winners of transition. The parameters defining these categories allow a possibility of identification with either one within the society. This paper presents analytical terms appropriate for discussing the given identification, as well as problems associated with it, further pointing out to the complexity of this issue. The categories of losers and winners of transition are ever-lasting, accompanying a process of social transformation itself. This however does not imply they are irrelevant considering they represent a sense of self and others in time characterized by important economic, political and cultural turbulences.
More...Keywords: identity; identification; transition; losers; winners
Post-socialist transformation in Serbia has introduced various changes and novelties including a formation of special categories of losers and winners of transition. The parameters defining these categories allow a possibility of identification with either one within the society. This paper presents analytical terms appropriate for discussing the given identification, as well as problems associated with it, further pointing out to the complexity of this issue. The categories of losers and winners of transition are ever-lasting, accompanying a process of social transformation itself. This however does not imply they are irrelevant considering they represent a sense of self and others in time characterized by important economic, political and cultural turbulences.
More...Keywords: Serbs; Kosovo; field research; the postwar context; discourse; identity; identification; ethnic identity; protectorate
This paper briefly discusses method and theory and results of multi-sited field research of the Serbian community in southeast Kosovo. The paper represents a reduced version of much larger study, to follow subsequently, on relation between ethnic and other forms of collective identity of the Serbian community in southeast Kosovo in the post-war context.
More...Keywords: identity; culture of memory; street names; memorials; Belgrade
With the onset of political overturn in Serbia in 2000, the process of the ideological reconfiguration of public places was simultaneously being put in motion. One of the most prominent means of this endeavor was naming and renaming of urban space, primarily of streets and squares, but also treatment of existing memorial sites and monuments and commissioning and erection of new ones. These undertakings were especially prominent in Serbia’s capital Belgrade. Such processes were opposed several times by certain political parties and groups which organized street-actions of counter-naming of Belgrade’s thoroughfares and campaigns against newly designated public monuments, and power-play and identity politics of such proceedings will be commented on here. This paper will discuss practices of several artistic and political groups which carried out unofficial street-renaming actions and performances, or discussed and opposed proposed new memorials. By (re)naming certain urban spaces, hegemonic political coalitions are trying to construct significant symbolic places, while oppositional counter-actions are seeking to overtake those same places and reinterpret them. This paper will attempt to sum up and inquire into the ideological politics of official memory discourses and artistic and political counter-politics and actions of opposition or alternative commemoration.
More...Keywords: traditional Serbian culture; Islamization; peoples of the world; chronicle; sweeping syntheses; important scholarly discovery
Mile Nedeljković published about a hundred titles in ethnology, literature, folklore studies and journalism, focusing especially on Šumadija, the traditional culture of the Serbian and other South-Slavic peoples, as well as peoples and their cultures worldwide. This contribution makes an attempt to look at his major ethnological works, which address social, cultural and ethnic issues. As it turns out, they deal with some of the most intricate, most sensitive and most important issues of national history and culture, such as Kosovo and Metohija as the cradle of Serbian spirituality, Islamization in the South-Slavic areas, Šumadija as the pivot of Serbia’s restored statehood, or the gloomy destiny of the Serbs the Frontiersmen and their expulsion from Croatia in the 1990s. As it also turns out, their author has a fundamental and diverse work, the ability to make sweeping syntheses and significant scholarly discoveries, the culture of chronicle keeping, and the simplicity and beauty of narrative expression, and, as such, he belongs to the very top of contemporary Serbian ethnology.
More...Keywords: identity; culture of memory; street names; memorials; Belgrade
With the onset of political overturn in Serbia in 2000, the process of the ideological reconfiguration of public places was simultaneously being put in motion. One of the most prominent means of this endeavor was naming and renaming of urban space, primarily of streets and squares, but also treatment of existing memorial sites and monuments and commissioning and erection of new ones. These undertakings were especially prominent in Serbia’s capital Belgrade. Such processes were opposed several times by certain political parties and groups which organized street-actions of counter-naming of Belgrade’s thoroughfares and campaigns against newly designated public monuments, and power-play and identity politics of such proceedings will be commented on here. This paper will discuss practices of several artistic and political groups which carried out unofficial street-renaming actions and performances, or discussed and opposed proposed new memorials. By (re)naming certain urban spaces, hegemonic political coalitions are trying to construct significant symbolic places, while oppositional counter-actions are seeking to overtake those same places and reinterpret them. This paper will attempt to sum up and inquire into the ideological politics of official memory discourses and artistic and political counter-politics and actions of opposition or alternative commemoration.
More...Keywords: gender identities; body on estrada; neofolk music; nationalism; Orthodoxy; icon; spectacle
This paper analyzes the cult of the nation and Orthodoxy in popular music of postsocialist Serbia in gender perspective. First I present historical revisionism regarding gender roles and the construction of gender identities in the nationalist discourses of postsocialist Serbia. I locate this issue into the register of neofolk music, i.e. the so called estrada (music show business). Following a diachronic recapitulation of a female singer’s role in popular folk music, through a case study of the icon of Saint Ceca, but also referring to other examples, I analyze the interconnection of national, religious and class factors in the construction of gender identities of body in estrada. The purpose of this analysis is to indicate how these bodies assert discourses of nationalism and Orthodox religiousness as its core, but also to map the points of their potential subversiveness in relation to these discourses.
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