Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS
Topic
The Jewish community after 1945 – in the memory of the community and the gentile majority (using Nitra as an example)
PhD. program
World Cultures and Religions, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University
Year of admission
2026
Name of the supervisor
PhDr. Monika Vrzgulová, CSc.
Contact:
Receiving school
Filozofická fakulta UK
Annotation
After the end of World War II and the Holocaust, a difficult period began for the Jewish community. It was marked by the reconstruction of Jewish life (both family and community) and the creation of relationships between the community and the non-Jewish majority. How are the Holocaust, the war, the subsequent post-war experiences, and coming to terms with the new political and social situation recorded in the memory of the current Jewish community and/or the local community? Using the example of a selected location (Nitra), the work should capture the main contents of the group memory of current members of the Jewish community, questions of Jewish identity after the Holocaust, during the communist regime, and in the present, and the perception of the relationship and place of Jewish people in the local community.