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 14 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, and (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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part I|56 pages
Borderlands, minority nationalism, and anti-fascism
chapter 181|18 pages
The ethnic roots of European anti-fascism
chapter 2|18 pages
Resisting the extremes
chapter 3|18 pages
Anti-fascism and the nationality question in the ethnic Romanian-Hungarian borderlands
part II|36 pages
Minorities between anti-communism and anti-fascism
chapter 744|17 pages
The cohesive and dividing power of anti-fascism
part III|56 pages
Intellectuals, minorities, and anti-fascism
chapter 1106|17 pages
Hugo Valentin and the emergence of Swedish-Jewish anti-fascism
chapter 7|17 pages
Between fascism and Stalinism
part IV|56 pages
Minorities in the resistance to Italian and German occupation
part V|54 pages
Ethnicity in collective memories of anti-fascism