Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tamás Lönhárt
• Virgiliu Ţârău
• Augusta Dimou
• Maria Todorova
• Stefan Troebst

Titel

Remembering the Old City, Building a New One: The Plural Memories of a Multiethnic City

Ist Teil von

• Remembering Communism, 2014, Vol.1, p.307

Auflage

NED - New edition, 1

Ort / Verlag

Hungary: Central European University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In a city of East-Central Europe, where the inhabitants spoke Hungarian, Romanian, German, or Yiddish as their native language, prayed in churches of Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Unitarian, or Jewish denominations for centuries, paradoxically (since communism is known for its official references to proletarian internationalism) ethnicity became the dominant frame for remembering communism, socialist industrialization, and the roles different groups played in social transformations. The language used by the local community’s old and new leaders, traditional and new members, as well as the metamorphosis of national and historical symbols in the urban public space are important elements of the interviewees’