Research Catalog

Title

Denial and repression of antisemitism : post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović / Jovan Byford.

Author

Byford, Jovan.

Publication

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2008.

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Description

vii, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Subject

• Velimirović, Nikolaj, 1880-1956
• Srpska pravoslavna crkva > Bishops > Biography
• Orthodox Eastern Church > Serbia > Bishops > Biography
• Christian saints > Serbia > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.

Contents

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 -- 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 Velimirović? -- 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 Velimirović'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" : Velimirović and the miracle of epiphany -- Velimirović as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah".

ISBN

• 9789639776159 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9639776157 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008001194
• 40015851537

OCLC

• ocn191258409
• 191258409
• SCSB-5430720

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Columbia University Libraries