Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust – On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction On the "Rescue of the Jews" and National Exceptionalism: A Riddle of Received Wisdom Knowledge about the Holocaust: Justice, Fiction, and Controversies Contours of an Investigation Nationalizing the Past, Internationally Reassessing the Cold War Era The Way Forward Chapter 1. The Judicial Production of an Account of Anti-Jewish Persecution: The Genesis of a Heroic Narrative Judging in Time of War The (In)visibility of Anti-Jewish Crimes in the "General Trials" The Construction of a Judicial Cause by Bulgarian Communist Jews A Sketch of the Trial Scene Courtroom 11 The Germans, the Fascists, and the "Good People": Drawing the Perimeter of Guilt A Fascist is an Anti-Semite... and Vice Versa The Euphemization of Jewish Suffering The Posterity of the Court: A Central Elision Chapter 2. Deportation of the Jews, from Belomorie to the Screen: Negotiating a "Socialist" Reading of the War Cinemas on Unequal Terms in Bulgaria and East Germany Elusive Presences of the Holocaust on the Screens One Co-production, Two Institutions, Several Agendas Konrad Wolf and Angel Wagenstein, a Dear Friendship Shooting Notes, and Other Digressions Script, Storyboard, and Film: Effects of Cutting and Framing Two Very Different Wars: The Bulgarian Lens Negotiating an East-East Reading of Nazism: German Polychromy? Jewish Fates, in a Minor Key Jewish Passivity: A Question of Gender? Christian Signs forJewish Suffering? A Transnational Symbolic Repertoire Chapter 3. The Deportation of Jews from Northern Greece: The Mysterious Journeys of a 1943 Film Footage Archival Inventories as Texts and Gaze A Film withoutan Author or Instructions? Scrutinizing Frames that Resist Analysis From Visual Document to Legal Evidence: The Beckerle Case Judicial Cooperation between West Germany, the United States, Israel, and Bulgaria: A Tale of the Cold War When Art Meets the Intelligence Community Cultural Diplomacy and the "Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews" The "Rescue" Goes West: Managing Scarcity and Acquisition Competitions Managing Scarcity and Acquisition Competitions Epilogue Chapter 4. Accounts of "Rescue" and Deportation in Dialogue: Memory Controversies after 1989 Bringing Back the Polyphony of the Past: (In)divisible Truths When History takes Center Stage Re-negotiating the Territorial Span of Bulgaria's Historical Narrative Words and Walls of Conflict in Balkan Jewish Communities The "Blagovest Sendov" Affair: A Bulgarian Forest in the (Domestic) Political Arena Dimitär Pes¿ev: A New Topography of Memory Chapter 5. Fruitful Disputes? Transnational Mobilizations and the Institutionalization of a Space of Dissensus Charting a New Historiography Bulgarian-Macedonian Holocaust Controversies When European Institutions Discuss History and Memory Games of Scale, Games of Chess: Debating Bulgaria's Memory Policies Remembering the Holocaust to Fight Anti-Semitism: A Room forConvergence? In the Spotlight of Euro-Atlantic Integration Conclusion Historiographical Disputes What We Talk About When We Talk About the Holocaust Jewish Voices in the Writing of the Past Challenges of the Page: Leafing Through Time, Speaking the Seen Appendix: The March 1943 Deportations from Territories Occupied by Bulgaria Bibliography Index