This year De Gruyter published Being Jewish in 21st Century Central Europe, edited by Haim Fireberg, Olaf Glöckner a Marcela Menachem Zoufalá.
The Centre is currently preparing the publication “Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction”. Planned to come out in 2021 at the publisher De Gruyter. The book has been edited by Agata Firlej, Elisa Maria Hiemer, Jiří Holý, and Hana Nichtburgerová. Thirty international researchers contributed to the Handbook with their articles. The picture on the cover is made by the artist Jiří Sozanský.
To this date, the most important and extensive work of “the Centre” is the collective monograph of more than thousand pages, Cizí i blízcí (Close and Foreign: Jews, Literature, and Culture in the Czech Lands in the Twentieth Century), published in 2016 by Akropolis. The book is dedicated to the topic of Jewishness in the Czech literature and culture in the 20th century. Nine authors dedicated their research to the so far most thorough discussion of this topic currently available.
Šárka Sladovníková’s book titled The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films came out in 2018, published by ibidem. The book analyzes depictions of the Holocaust in Czechoslovak feature films and the relevant literary pretexts. It also focuses on the cinematic language, composition, narrative, and genre aspects of films. Close attention is paid to the portrayal of stereotypes and countertypes in the films, where well-known images and situations are repeated.
Further Publications:
Jiří Holý, Petr Málek, Michael Špirit, and Filip Tomáš: Šoa v české literatuře a v kulturní paměti. Prague, Akropolis 2011. 312 pp.
Reinhard Ibler (ed.): Ausgewählte Probleme der polnischen und tschechischen Holocaustliteratur und –kultur. München/Berlin, Otto Sagner 2012. 160 pp.
Jiří Holý (ed.): The Representation of the Shoah in Literature, Theatre and Film in Central Europe: 1950s and 1960s. Prague, Akropolis 2012. 185 pp.
Jiří Holý (ed.): The Representation of the Shoah in Literature and Film in Central Europe: 1970s and 1980s. Prague, Akropolis 2012. 243 pp.
Marcela Zoufalá: Judaismus a ženy v Izraeli. Prague, Karolinum 2012. 158 pp.
Grzegorz Gazda et al. (eds.): Reprezentacje Shoah w literaturze i filmie w Europie Środkowej: lata powojenne. Łódż, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 2014. 147 pp.
Olga Zitová: Thomas Mann und Ivan Olbracht. Der Einfluss von Manns Mythoskonzeption aud die karpatoukrainische Prosa des tschechischen Schriftstellers. Stuttgart, ibidem 2014. 139 pp.
Marcela Zoufalá (ed.): Jewish Studies in the 21st Century. Prague – Europe – World. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 2014. 237 pp.
Štěpán Balík: Jidiš v židovském etnolektu a moderní židovská literární identita v Čechách. Prague, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny 2015. 142 pp.
Reinhard Ibler (ed.): The Holocaust in the Central European Literatures since 1989. Stuttgart, ibidem 361 pp.
Jiří Holý (ed.): The Aspects of Genres in the Holocaust Literatures in Central Europe. Prague, Akropolis 2015. 261 pp.
Reinhard Ibler (ed.): Der Holocaust in den mitteleuropäischen Literaturen und Kulturen: Probleme der Poetisierung und Ästhetisierung. Stuttgart, ibidem 2016. 290 pp.
Jiří Holý (ed.): Cizí i blízcí. Židé, literatura, kultura v českých zemích ve 20. století. Prague, Akropolis 2016. 1048 pp.
Marcela Zoufalá, Jiří Holý (eds.): Rozpad židovského života. 167 dní druhé republiky. Prague, Academia 2016. 301 pp.
Jiří Holý, Hana Nichtburgerová (eds.): Podoby Židů v literatuře doby romantismu v českých zemích. Prague, Faculty of Arts, Charles University 2016. 124 pp.
Agata Firlej, Krystyna Pieniażek-Marković (eds.): Recepcja literackich i artystycznych dzieł o Szoa. The Reception of Literary and Artistic Works about the Holocaust. Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne 12, 2017. 411 pp.
