Twitchin, Mischa. 2025. Remembering (in) the absence of memorials. In: Tiziana D’Amico, ed. Cultural Discourse on the Holocaust in East-Central and Eastern Europe. Szombathely, Hungary: Savaria University Press, pp. 119-136. ISBN 9786156489579 [Book Section]

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The title of this article evokes the present of remembering the Shoah in the Estonian context, through the example of a recent play by the Estonian-Russian theatre maker, Julia Aug, Mum, is our cat also a Jew? Aug’s testimonial dramaturgy allows for a dialogue between different generations for whom the question of their Jewish identity in Estonia (including the author’s own) is not subsumed in a “national” understanding of the past. As much as the living, the dead also speak in the present of the play, where the entanglements of pre- and post-Soviet memory culture, as between official and unofficial histories, are movingly explored. Aug’s play brings to light multidirectional questions of remembrance, not only in terms of “nationalities” but of gender, exposing a marginal-central configuration of voices in established accounts of memorialising Estonian independence.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Theatre and Performance (TAP)
Dates:	Date Event 12 August 2025 Published
Item ID:	39375
Date Deposited:	13 Aug 2025 08:48
Last Modified:	13 Aug 2025 08:48
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39375

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