Denial and repression of antisemitism : post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic / / Jovan Byford.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Byford, Jovan.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vii, 269 p., [8] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.).

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Materials used in this study -- The life of Nikolaj Velimirovic and his changing public image, 1945-2003 -- Denigration and marginalization : Velimirovic's status in post-war Yugoslavia -- Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirovic's status today -- Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirovic and the repression of controversy -- The discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement -- Velimirovic in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement myth -- The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirovic'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 Velimirovic'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 Velimirovic? -- 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 Velimirovic'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" : Velimirovic and the miracle of epiphany -- Velimirovic as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah".