Strategies of Survival: Balkan Jewish Women and Cultural Representations of Memory
Strategies of Survival: Balkan Jewish Women and Cultural Representations of Memory

Summary/Abstract: This issue of Studia Judaica is in several respects unique and, for this reason alone, exceptional. First, it transcends and thereby expands the journal’s existing profile by addressing issues related to Judaic studies in relation to the Balkan Peninsula, going beyond analyzes of Polish-Jewish contacts and focusing also on Sephardic studies. Second, it is devoted to Balkan Jewish women, to the study of their rather superficially researched and modestly described heritage, and focuses attention on interrelated aspects of this heritage from the perspective of both gender and memory studies. Third, the issue is intentionally entirely in English, because we wanted this exploratory issue of Studia Judaica, with its focus on cultural representations of Balkan Jewish women, to reach the widest possible group of researchers and help promote international discussion, providing a catalyst for further research, including comparative studies. As the guest editors of this thematic issue, we are grateful to the editor-inchief, Professor Marcin Wodziński, for his trust and for providing us the opportunity to initiate this dialogue with Balkan studies concerning the study of gender and Jewish women in the Balkans on the pages of such a renowned journal. It is our hope that interest in this rarely addressed issue will only strengthen the rank and prestige of the subject, and will open up new research perspectives and expand current ones.

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