Abstract: | "Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities explores how, and to what extent, fascist ultranationalism elicited an anti-fascist response among ethnic minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe. The edited volume analyses how identities related to class, ethnicity, gender and political ideologies were negotiated within and between minorities through confrontations with domestic and international fascism. By developing and expanding the study of Jewish anti-fascism and resistance to other minority responses, the book opens the field of anti-fascism studies for a broader comparative approach. The volume is thematically located in Central and Eastern Europe, cutting right across the continent from Finland in the North to Albania in the Southeast. The case studies in the fourteen research chapters are divided into five thematic sections, dealing with the issues of 1) minorities in borderlands and cross-border antifascism, 2) minorities navigating the ideological squeeze between communism and fascism, 3) the role of intellectuals in the defence of minority rights, 4) the anti-fascist resistance against fascist and Nazi occupation during World War II, as well as 5) the conflictual role ascribed to ethnicity in post-war memory politics and commemorations. The editors describe their intersectional approach to the analysis of ethnicity as a crucial category of analysis with regard to anti-fascist histories and memories. The book offers scholars and students valuable historical and comparative perspectives on minority studies, Jewish studies, borderland studies, and memory studies. It will appeal to those with an interest in the history of race and racism, fascism and anti-fascism, and Central and Eastern Europe"-- Divided against themselves? Ethnic minorities, nationalism, and fractured anti-fascist identities / Anders Ahlbäck & Kasper Braskén -- The ethnic roots of European anti-fascism : the Slovenes and Croats in interwar Italy / Borut Klabjan -- Resistance to the extremes : the facets of the Ukrainian National Movement in interwar Eastern Galicia / Katarzyna Losson -- Anti-fascism and the nationality question in the ethnic Romanian-Hungarian borderlands : the case of Satu Mare 1930-1938 / Anders E. B. Blomqvist -- The cohesive and dividing power of anti-fascism : language and class among Finland-Swedes in the 1920s-1940s / Anders Ahlbäck, Kasper Braskén, Matias Kaihovirta, and Ylva Perera -- The communist discourse on minorities in interwar Romania and its practical implications for the anti-fascist fighters / Cristina Diac -- Hugo Valentin and the emergence of Swedish-Jewish anti-fascism : from the 1920s to World War II / Olof Bortz -- Between fascism and Stalinism : Wolfgang Steinitz and anti-fascist Finno-Ugric scholarship in the 1930s-1950s / Takehiro Okabe -- Mihail Ralea as anti-fascist and defender of ethnic minorities in interwar Romania / Cristian Vasile -- Materiality, gender, and ethnicity in Jewish anti-Nazi resistance in Germanoccupied Lithuania / Justina Smalkyte -- The role of ethnic minorities and the diaspora in anti-fascist resistance in Albania / Belina Bedini -- The anti-fascist oppositions to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army / Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe -- Anti-fascist resistance, antisemitism and complex Jewish identities : postwar political trials in Hungary and Czechoslovakia / Barbara J. Falk -- Remembering and forgetting Jewish anti-fascism in Bulgaria / Filip Lyapov -- Sites of resistance : memory, ethnicity, and anti-fascism at the Trieste lager / Maura Hametz. |
