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Between mimesis and non-existence

Cultural and political life in Lithuania is marked by what Homi K. Bhabha, speaking of postcolonial nations, called "ironic compromise". The Lithuanian is …
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-12-03-balockaite-bg.html

The non-efficient citizen

Consumerism grounded in indebtedness means financial dependence as opposed to democratic freedom. In the consumerist system, the individual who asserts him or …
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-12-03-kavaliauskas-bg.html

Global museums in the twenty-first century

The fact that a Guggenheim museum is being planned for Vilnius is indicative of the conviction that "de-provincialization" can only be achieved by taking part …
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-12-03-trilupaityte-bg.html

The gothic way

"Arche" reacts to being censored yet again; "Merkur" sees Russia turn from historical amnesia to gothic morality; "Kulturos barai" comments on the Kundera …
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-12-02-eurozinerev-en.html

Overcoming war

As influencial entrepreneur, publicist, and pacifist, Jan Bloch deserves a prominent place in European collective memory: initiating the Hague Peace …
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-11-26-sapper-en.html

Remembrance as balancing act

How to communicate eastern European Jewish history and culture without turning it into commercialism and kitsch or treating Jewish life as a museum artefact …
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-11-27-roundtable-en.html

From obscurantism to holiness

The intellectuals Martin Buber, Joshua Heschel, and Emmanuel Levinas shared the eastern European Jewish experience and a universalistic ethic. Above all it is …
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-11-27-brumlik-en.html

Disputed memory

Nearly all of the three million Jews living in Poland before WWII were killed during the Shoah. Yet remembrance only began after 1990 and still polarizes …
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-11-27-steffen-en.html

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-11-27-sapper-en.html

Impulses for Europe

Eighty per cent of Jewish people worldwide have eastern European roots, yet how far are the countries of eastern Europe ready to integrate Jewish life and …
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-11-27-editorial-en.html