Title Museum and historical culture: how is Jewish history included in the museum narrative of Lithuania? /
Authors Šermukšnytė, Rūta
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Is Part of Revista Romana de Studii Baltice si Nordice = The Romanian journal for Baltic and Nordic studies.. Targoviste : The Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies. 2020, vol. 12, iss. 2, p. 149-162.. ISSN 2067-1725
Keywords [eng] historical culture ; Lithuanian museums in 1990 to 2020 ; museum representation ; history of the Jews in Lithuania ; Holocaust ; shtetl
Abstract [eng] The aim of this article is to reveal the dynamics of the museum narrative of Jewish history in the contexts of Lithuanian historical culture in the period 1990–2020. Seeing the tensions between ethnocentric and polycentric, civic, civilizational models of identity in historical culture, the topic of Jewish history representation was chosen because of its complicated integration into the scheme of ethnocentric national narrative. The study shows that the museum representations of Jewish history are increasing in number and becoming more various in themes and forms. That was predetermined by the changes in the political conjuncture and public memory and by individual initiatives.
Published Targoviste : The Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2020
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