“Judeo-Bolshevism”
by Joshua Ellison · 08/14/09
From our friends at Eurozine, an indispensable resource for contemporary European thought:
For young Polish Jews, the historical injury of the Holocaust is often complicated by their grandparents’ participation in the communist project. Many of the twenty-somethings interviewed by Marci Shore reappropriated their Jewish identity after 1989, and grapple deeply with questions of inner-Jewish politics and their relations with non-Jewish Poles. Affection, hostility, passion… one thing emerges above all: contradiction.
This paper was presented at the European Meeting of Cultural Journals (which always sounds like a great event; Habitus has been invited a few times, but we’ve yet to have the pleasure). Eurozine‘s online coverage also features a presentation from Zinovy Zinik, a contributor to the forthcoming Habitus 05: Moscow.
