Focusing on three contemporary grassroots initiatives of preserving Jewish heritage and commemorating Jews in Belarus, namely, the Jewish Museum in Minsk, Ada Raǐchonak’s private museum of regional heritage in Hermanovichi, and the initiative of erecting the monument of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in Hlybokae, the present article discusses how local efforts to commemorate Jews and preserve Jewish heritage tap into the culture of political dissent, Belarus’s international relations, and the larger project of redefining the Belarusian national identity. Looking at the way these memorial interventions frame Jewish legacy within a Belarusian national narrative, the article concentrates in particular on the institution of the public historian and the small, informal social networks used to operate under a repressive regime. Incorporating the multicultural legacy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into the canon of Belarusian national heritage and recognizing the contribution of ethnic minorities to the cultural landscape of Belarus, new memory projects devoted to Jewish history in Belarus mark a caesura in the country’s engagement with its ethnic Others and are also highly political. While the effort of filling in the gaps in national historiography and celebrating the cultural diversity of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania overlaps in significant ways with the agenda of the anti-Lukashenka opposition, Jewish heritage in Belarus also resonates with the state authorities, who seek to instrumentalize it for their own vision of national unity.

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犹太遗产和新白俄罗斯国家认同计划

着眼于保护白俄罗斯的犹太人遗产和纪念犹太人的三个当代基层倡议，即明斯克的犹太博物馆，阿达·拉霍纳克在赫曼诺维奇的区域遗产私人博物馆，以及在赫利博卡伊建立埃利泽·本·耶胡达纪念碑的倡议。本文讨论了当地为纪念犹太人和保护犹太人遗产所做的努力如何融入政治异议文化，白俄罗斯的国际关系以及重新定义白俄罗斯民族认同的更大项目。着眼于这些纪念性干预在白俄罗斯民族叙事中如何构成犹太人的遗产，本文特别关注了公共历史学家的制度以及在压迫性政权下运作的小型非正式社会网络。将波兰-立陶宛联邦的多元文化遗产纳入白俄罗斯国家遗产的典范，并认识到少数民族对白俄罗斯文化景观的贡献，致力于白俄罗斯犹太历史的新记忆项目标志着该国与民族互动的标志其他人也高度政治化。尽管填补国家史学空白和庆祝立陶宛大公国文化多样性的努力在很大程度上与反卢卡申卡反对派的议程重叠，但白俄罗斯的犹太遗产也引起了国家当局的共鸣，他们寻求为实现自己的民族团结愿景而发挥作用。