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43 Ibid., p. 25.
44 Cf., for example, J. Topolski, Teoria istoriei (Bucharest: Editura Stiintifica, 1986), passim,
as a review of elaborated epistemological, relativist, attitudes towards history.
45 Ost, ‘The Radical Right in Poland’, pp. 96, 95.
46 Shafir, Between Denial and ‘Comparative Trivialization’, p. 29.
47 A. Brumberg, ‘Anti-Semitism and the Treatment of the Holocaust in Postcommunist
Poland’, in Anti-Semitism, ed. Braham, p. 156.
48 Shafir, Between Denial and ‘Comparative Trivialization’, p. 30.
49 Karsai, ‘The Radical Right in Hungary’, 143.
50 Tismaneanu, Fantasmele salvarii, p. 108.
51 Deák, ‘Antisemitism and the Treatment of the Holocaust in Hungary’, pp. 99, 100.
52 Ibid., pp. 114, 115.
53 Karsai, ‘The Radical Right in Hungary’, p. 137.
54 A. Kovács, ‘Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity in Postcommunist Hungary’, in Anti-
Semitism, ed. Braham, pp. 125, 126.
55 Vago, ‘Antisemitism’, pp. 197, 198.
56 Cibulka, ‘The Radical Right in Slovakia’, p. 122.
57 Vago, ‘Antisemitism’, pp. 199, 203.
58 Shafir, Between Denial and ‘Comparative Trivialization’, pp. 39, 40, 41.
59 Ibid., pp. 46, 47.
60 Ibid., pp. 44–5.
61 Solonari, ‘From Silence to Justification?’, 440, 441, 442.
62 The list includes even wider acknowledged authorities, such as the Romanian Academy
member Dan Berindei, who, in an interview on the national channel TVR2 on 5 June
2002, insisted that the accent should be laid on surviving Jews’ debt to Antonescu.
63 M. Shafir, ‘Reabilitarea postcomunista a maresalului Antonescu: Cui bono?’ in Exterminarea
evreilor români si ucraineni în perioada antonesciana, ed. R.L. Braham, trans.
L. Witcowsky (Bucharest: Hasefer, 2002), p. 448. English translation: ‘Marshal
Antonescu’s Postcommunist Rehabilitation: Cui Bono?’ in The Destruction of Romanian
and Ukrainian Jews During the Antonescu Era, ed. R.L. Braham (New York: Rosenthal
Institute for Holocaust Studies, 1997), pp. 349–410.
64 V. Eskenasi, ‘Istoriografii si istoricii pro si contra mitului Antonescu’, in Exterminarea,
ed. Braham, pp. 324, 325. English translation: ‘Historiographers against the
Antonescu Myth’, in The Destruction, ed. Braham, pp. 271–302.
65 Cf. S.J. Kirschbaum, A History of Slovakia (London: Macmillan, 1995), p. 199;
Cibulka, ‘The Radical Right in Slovakia’, p. 121 (the author brings to attention the
publication of a negationist school textbook by Milan Durica in 1997, which caused
such an international outrage that Prime Minister Me1iar ordered its withdrawal
from schools; ibid., p. 123); Shafir, Between Denial and ‘Comparative Trivialization’,
p. 48; Shafir also signals the publication, in 1998, of J. Vrba’s book dedicated to Tiso,
The Man Who Stood up to Hitler, in which he claims that Tiso and the Slovak people
had no knowledge of the deportations initiated in 1942 and that had the National
Uprising not taken place all Jews would have been saved (ibid., 49).
66 Cibulka, ‘The Radical Right in Slovakia’, p. 122.
67 Vago, ‘Antisemitism’, pp. 197–8.
68 Ibid., pp. 52, 60, 61–5.
69 M. Shafir, ‘The Man They Love to Hate: Norman Manea’s “Snail’s House” between
Holocaust and Gulag’, East European Jewish Affairs, 30, 1 (2000), 72.
70 Cf. Shafir, Between Denial and ‘Comparative Trivialization’, pp. 51, 52.
71 Ost, ‘The Radical Right in Poland’, p. 93.