Peeling the Bratislava Onion (Collective Memory in Incomplete Communities)












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            * Peter Salner
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            Abstrakt

            In his memoirs, Günter Grass used the analogy of “peeling the onion” and he gradually peel
            of his memories. This procedure did not work in researching the Bratislava (not only the J
            of the 20th century. Due to historic events, several significant city-forming elements of 

            disappeared from the Bratislava demographic map (but also from the memory of most contempo
            to the Holocaust, Orthodox Jews predominated in the city. Today, they make up a negligible
            minority. A similar fate affected the Zionists, too. According to available data, 10,000 J

            left Slovakia between 1945 and 1949; of them, 90% chose Palestine/Israel as their target c
            from the countryside replaced them. However, they were not able to make up for past losses

            terms of quantity or quality. There was enough evidence that “peeling of onion” is not sui
            studied sample does not represent a whole spectrum of a given environment. If this method 
            applied, it would result in a simplified picture of both the Jewish community and the city

            lived. It is also important to consider the fact that the Holocaust influenced not only th
            community structure, but also the value system of its members. Thus, there is the seemingl
            procedure of “wrapping the onion up.”


            Klíčová slova
            Bratislava, Jews, collective memory, 20 th century


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