LEADER 04356cam a2200409 a 4500001 147114 005 20240621205355.0 008 080114s2008 hu af b 001 0beng 010 2008001194 020 9789639776159 |qcloth |qalkaline paper 020 9639776157 |qcloth |qalkaline paper 035 (OCoLC)ocn191258409 035 147114 043 e-yu--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBAKER |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dOHX |dC#P |dBWX 050 00 BX719.V45 |bB93 2008 100 1 Byford, Jovan. 245 10 Denial and repression of antisemitism : |bpost-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović / |cJovan Byford. 264 1 Budapest ;New York : |bCentral European University Press, |c2008. 300 vii, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations (some color) ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index. 505 0 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". 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Velimirović, Nikolaj, |d1880-1956. 610 20 Srpska pravoslavna crkva |xBishops |vBiography. 610 20 Orthodox Eastern Church |zSerbia |xBishops |vBiography. 650 0 Christian saints |zSerbia |vBiography. 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 856 41 |3Electronic version(s) available. |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ushmm/detail.action?docID=3137268 |zHosted by ProQuest 852 0 |bstacks |hBX719.V45 |iB93 2008 852 |bebook 852 0 |bebook