Voices of Yugoslav Jewry

by Paul Benjamin Gordiejew

Voices of Yugoslav Jewry emphasizes the role of history in shaping Yugoslav Jewish identity. World War II imposed irreversible effects on this population of Jews, leaving them with an acute sense of disjuncture and fragmentation. This once-unified Jewish community lost its secure place in the politico-symbolic order of a single multiethnic state, and the surviving local Jewish communities, which are now a part of new states, face the task of refashioning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791440222
• ISBN13: 9780791440223
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"