Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust
Nadege Ragaru and Victoria Baena A profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust. During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish community. Until recently, this image of Bulgaria as a European exception has prevailed—but at a cost. For it ignored the roundup of almost all the Jews...
Shakir M. Pashov. History of Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma
Shakir M. Pashov, History of Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma, Brill, 2022 The publication of this outstanding book marks the beginning of the Brill book series Roma History and Culture. The core of the present volume is an until now unpublished manuscript by Shakir Pashov (1898-1981), a Bulgarian Roma activist whose name continues to be surrounded by rumours and myths. The volume includes the original manuscript of Shakir Pashov...
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria
Albena Shkodrova How did people exist and resist in their daily lives under Soviet control in the Cold War period? Shkodrova’s monograph shows how in communist Bulgaria many women passionately exchanged recipes with friends and strangers, to build substantial and impressive private collections of recipes. This activity was borderline contraband in going against the general disapproval of home cooking that formed part of the...
XIV Festa del cinema bulgaro: fra commedia, storia e grande teatro
La quattordicesima edizione dal 9 all’11 luglio alla Casa del Cinema di Roma Torna alla Casa del Cinema (Largo Marcello Mastroianni) la Festa del Cinema Bulgaro che firma la sua quattordicesima edizione con l’ormai tradizionale rassegna promossa dall’Istituto bulgaro di cultura. Un appuntamento con il meglio della produzione cinematografica bulgara che anche quest’anno ha voluto proporci i mille colori di una cultura...
The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History
John R. Lampe, Ulf Brunnbauer Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe. It gathers 47 international scholars and researchers from the region. They stand back from the premodern claims and recent controversies stirred by the wars of Yugoslavia’s...