Finland's Holocaust Silences of History [Paperback]

Finland's Holocaust considers antisemitism and the figure of the Holocaust in today's Finland. Taking up a range of issues - from cultural history, folklore, and sports, to the interpretation of military and national history - this collection examines how the writing of history has engaged and evaded the figure of the Holocaust.1. Introduction: Contesting the Silences of History; Hana Worthen and Simo Muir 2. Stories of National and Transnational Memory: Renegotiating the Finnish Conception of Moral Witness and National Victimhood; John Sundholm 3. Modes of Displacement: Ignoring, Understating, and Denying Antisemitism in Finnish Historiography; Simo Muir 4. I Devote Myself to the Fatherland : Finnish Folklore, Patriotic Nationalism, and Racial Ideology; Ilona Salomaa 5. Towards New Europe: Arvi Kivimaa, Kultur, and the Fictions of Humanism; Hana Worthen 6. Discrimination against Jewish Athletes in Finland: An Unwritten Chapter; Malte Gasche and Simo Muir 7. Elina Sana's Luovutetut and the Politics of History; Jouni Tilli 8. Negotiating a Dark Past in the Swedish-Language Press in Finland and Sweden; Karin Kvist Geverts 9. Beyond Those Eight : Deportations of Jews from Finland 1941-1942; Oula Silvennoinen 10. Soldaten wie andere auch : Finnish Waffen-SS Volunteers and Finland's Historical Imagination; Antero HolmilaMalte Gasche, University of Helsinki, FinlandKarin Kvist Geverts, Uppsala University, SwedenAntero Holmila, University of Jyv?skyl?, FinlandIlona Salomaa, University of Helsinki, FinlandOula Silvennoinen, University of Helsinki, FinlandJohn Sundholm, Karlstad University, Sweden, and ?bo Akademi University, FinlandJouni Tilli, University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland