However, it seems that history has left its mark on this common ground. This anthology shows how boundaries between minority and majority have, over time, created a remarkable asymmetric coexistence that appears to be continuing despite international legal norms. The idea that a singular national ethos belongs to a particular geographical region has been naturalized at great cost for many minorities. One such cost is the silencing of minority narratives as part of a nation’s history. The different case studies in this collection of essays well illustrate nationalism’s project to wipe out “memories of plurality".
This collection of papers is the result of a cooperation between the Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, The Centre Alberto Benveniste at École Pratique des Hautes Études, University of Sorbonne and Cultural complexity in the new Norway at the University of Oslo.
The publication has been made possible with a Publication Grant from The Research Council of Norway
Read the introduction and see the table of contents here