Museum and Historical Culture: How is Jewish History Included in the Museum Narrative of Lithuania?
Museum and Historical Culture: How is Jewish History Included in the Museum Narrative of Lithuania?
Author(s): Rūta ŠermukšnytėSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Education, Ethnohistory, Social history, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Asociatia Romana pentru Studii Baltice si Nordice
Keywords: historical culture; Lithuanian museums in 1990 to 2020; museum representation; history of the Jews in Lithuania; Holocaust;shtetl;
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Revista Română de Studii Baltice şi Nordice
- Issue Year: 12/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 149-162
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English, Romanian