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Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on July 3, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):188-206; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp040
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Daughters’ Stories: Family Memory and Generational Amnesia1

Daniela Koleva

Daniela Koleva (Ph.D., University of Sofia, M.A., University of St. Petersburg) is an associate professor at the Department for History and Theory of Culture, University of Sofia. Her research interests are in the field of oral history and anthropology of socialism, biographical research, memory, gender, and politics of history. She has published a monograph on socialist "normal biography" and a number of articles in international scholarly journals and collective volumes, as well as collections of life stories


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After World War II, most Bulgarian Jews emigrated legally to Israel. Those who stayed had to take part in the building of socialism and integrate in a monolithic "socialist nation." Thereby they had to "forget" their ethnic identity ("aided" by the state in various ways) and to become Homo politicus rather than Homo ethnicus. Since 1990, a revival of Jewish identity has begun in Bulgaria. Here I explore how the women of three generations from the same family reinvent their Jewish identity in their life stories. Drawing on this particular case, I suggest an approach to the question of the interplay of individual and collective memory. I focus on family and generation as different types of collectivities influencing individual memories and self-actualizations.

Keywords: communism, family, generation, Jewish, memory


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