Archiv vizuální historie USC Shoah Foundation v CVH Malach a československé židovské identity

• Authors: Jakub Mlynář

Title variants

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USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive in CVH Malach and Czechoslovak Jewish identities

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Identities and their representation and expression in different social contexts became one of the key problems of social sciences and humanities in the late 20th century. Sociology – which is the approach taken in this paper – doesn’t understand identity as something given or fixed, but rather as a social construction created in the processes of interaction and negotiation. Emphasis is on the temporal mutability and fluidity of the identities, their social origin (membership in different social groups and identification with them), and the premise that an individual in contemporary society uses a variety of different identities in social interactions. First part of the paper presents the archive, which is the source of the data; the second part is a short overview of key theoretical aspects of sociological research on identities; and the final part is dealing with different ways of expressing a collective (Jewish) identity in biographical interviews from the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, interpreting it in the broad context of sociological reflections on personal and collective identity

Keywords

EN

World War II; Holocaust; collective identity; Jewish identity

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Historie – Otázky – Problémy (History, Issues, Problems)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 173-183

Contributors

author

Jakub Mlynář

• Katedra sociologie Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy