Publication Announcement: ‘Being a Minority in Times of Crisis’

The SGMH’s latest publication, ‘Being a Minority in Times of Crisis’, has now been published as a special issue of the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (‘East European History‘), Vol.71No.3 (December 2023). Thank you to all of our contributing authors for their patience over the last three years.

Alongside a thematic introduction co-authored by Olena Palko and Samuel Foster, the issue, which explores how periods of prolonged political and socio-economic upheaval affected minority groups across Central and Southeastern Europe includes the following contributions:

Samuel Foster, Between the Young Turks and the Great Fire: The Crisis that Created Thessaloniki’s Jewish Working Class, 1908-1917 

Anca Filipovici, Health Care at the Periphery of the Nation: Ethnic Minorities and Social Diseases in Romania before the Second World War 

Barbara Warnock and Elise Bath, Discrimination Against Roma and Sinti Survivors of Nazi Persecution: Case Studies from the International Tracing Service 

Igor Vucadinovic, The 1972 Smallpox Outbreak in Yugoslavia and the Health Status of the Albanian National Minority in Kosovo



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The BASEES Study Group for Minority History (SGMH) is a forum devoted to the study of minority groups in the national and regional histories of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European from the Napoleonic Wars to the contemporary past.

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