Establishing an International Network discussing the Appropriation of Jewish Property in Yugoslavia, 1940 to 1945

该项目的目标是建立一个国际学术网络，致力于讨论1940年至1945年南斯拉夫犹太人财产的征用。一系列的三个会议和随后的所有会议论文的在线出版将是学术网络的核心。建立这样一个网络是有价值的，原因有二：首先，跨国合作有助于盘点不同的主要来源和分散的（本地）次要学术研究的主题，为更广泛的跨国学术研究创造新的视角。鉴于我们的历史课题本身是跨国的，连接世界各地的学者和历史资源就显得更加重要。南斯拉夫被划分为不同的占领区，每个占领区都有自己的逻辑，占领者和与他们合作的人以不同的方式没收犹太人的财产。犯罪者来自德国、匈牙利、保加利亚、意大利和南斯拉夫，因此，非法没收犹太人财产往往是有计划的，并最终使这些国家的人民受益。虽然受害者后来成为多民族的，特别是在南斯拉夫解体之后，但他们的故事主要是在民族或族裔框架内讲述的。这就是为什么，第二，这个项目正在促进关于纪念的跨国讨论。通过记忆的历史，我们希望阐明社会主义南斯拉夫的人民和从中产生的民族国家如何看待这个敏感的话题。

The goal of this project is to establish an international scholarly network dedicated to the discussion of the appropriation of Jewish property in Yugoslavia, 1940 to 1945. A series of three conferences and the subsequent online publication of all conference papers will be the core of the scholarly network.Establishing such a network is valuable for two reasons:First, transnational cooperation helps taking inventory of both the disparate primary sources and the fragmented (local) secondary scholarship on the topic to create new perspectives for a broader, transnational scholarship. Connecting scholars and historical resources across the world is all the more important considering that our historical topic itself is transnational. Yugoslavia was divided in various occupation zones that each functioned by their own particular logic and whose occupiers and those collaborating with them implemented the appropriation of Jewish property in different ways. The perpetrators were from Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy and Yugoslavia, thus the illegal appropriation of Jewish property was often planned in and ultimately benefited the population of those countries. While the victims have since become multi-national, particularly after the break-up of Yugoslavia, their story has been told predominantly within a national or ethnic framework. This is why, secondly, this project is fostering the transnational discourse on remembrance. Through the history of memory, we hope to illuminate how people in socialist Yugoslavia and the nation states that emerged from it have perceived this sensitive topic.