Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Professor Ivo Goldstein

Fellow Ivo Goldstein

June - October 2011

Goldstein is Fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena since June 2011. He is a full professor at the University of Zagreb since 2001, where he is a docent already since 1988. He worte his thesis of doctorate in 1988 about "Byzantium on the Adriatic - 6th to 9th c." at the University of Belgrade. 1987/8 Goldstein was postdoctoral student at the University of Athens. His magisterium in 1984 was about "Historiographic criteria of Procopius of Caesarea". He studied history at the University of Zagreb and at the Ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

 

Research project

"Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980): a biography" is a political biography of one of the leading figures in Europe during the Second World War and postware times. Although more then 30 years elapsed from Tito's death, there is no standard biography of him. The book will primarily be written for the Croatian (and ex-Yugoslav) market. Josip Broz Tito was a man of a fascinating biography. During 35 years of his absolute rule in Yugoslavia (1945-1980) he in the same time a dictator, a modernizer, a charismatic person. At the beginning of the 21st c., in a postideological enviroment, one needs to re-examine all these qualifications.
"Albanians in Yugoslavia (1918-1991)" examines the history of Albanian minority during monarchistic (1918-1941) and socialistic (1945-1991) Yugoslavia, as well as during the Second World War. The text is mostly dealing with Albanians in Kosovo, but also speaks about Albanians in Crna Gora (Montenegro) and Macedonia and about Albanian diapora elsewhere in Yugoslavia. It is a complex history of a minority living in already complicated state. Investigating the relationship of the Albanians with the other nations, particularly with the Serbs in Kosovo, implies political, sociological, economic and cultural analysis. It also implies that one should confront two antagonistic narratives, Serbian and Albanian, about their relationship, and to find the "third" way to deal with this historical matter.Member of the Academic Working Group as a delegate of Croatia in Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.

Memberships

  • Member of the Academic Working Group as a delegate of Croatia in Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.
  • Chair of the Cathedra for the Croatian History, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb

Monographs

Dvadeset godina samostalne Hrvatske (Twenty years of Independent Croatia), Zagreb, 2010.

Hrvaška zgodovina (Croatian History), Ljubljan 2008.

Hrvatska 1918-2008 (Croatia 1918-2008), Zagreb 2008.

with Grgin, Borislav: Europa i Sredozemlje u srednjem vijeku (Europe and the Mediterannean in the Middle Ages), Zagreb 2006.

with Szabo, Agneza: Povijest zagrebačke Klasične gimnazije 1607-2007 (A History of the Classical Gimnasium in Zagreb 1607-2007), Zagreb 2007.

Židovi u Zagrebu 1918-1941 (Jews in Zagreb 1918-1941), Zagreb 2004.

Hrvatska povijest (Croatian History), Zagreb 2003, 2. Edition 2008.

Hrvati, hrvatske zemlje i Bizant (Croats, Croatian Lands and Byzantium), Zagreb 2003.

various authors: Hrvatski enciklopedijski rječnik (Encyclopaedic Croatian Dictionary), Zagreb 2002.

with Goldstein, Slavko: Holokaust u Zagrebu (Holocaust in Zagreb), Zagreb 2001.

Croatia. A History, Hurst Publishers, London; Mc Gill University Press, Montreal 1999-2000.

with Anić, Vladimir: Rječnik stranih riječi (Dictionary of Foreign Words), Zagreb 1999. Hrvatski rani srednji vijek (Croatian Early Middle Ages), Zagreb 1995.

Bizant na Jadranu od 6. do 9. stoljeća (Byzantium on Adriatic - 6th to 9th centuries), Zagreb 1992.

Edited volumes

ed. and translation: T. Herzl, Židovska država (T. Herzl, Judenstaat), Zagreb 2011.

with M. Strecha, M./ Stančić, N.: "Zbornik Mirjane Gross", Zagreb 1999.

"Zvonimir kralj hrvatski" (Zvonimir, King of Croatia), Zagreb 1997. (Kronologija - Hrvatska - Europa - Svijet (Croatian and World Chronology), Zagreb 1996.

with M. Kolar-Dimitrijević, M./ Maticka, M.: "Spomenica Ljube Bobana", Zagreb 1996.

with Lengel-Krizman, N.: "Anti-Semitism - Holocaust - Anti-Fascism", Zagreb 1996.

with M. Kruhek, M.: "Sisačka bitka 1593" (Battle of Sisak 1593), Zagreb - Sisak 1994.

Articles (selection)

La Chiesa cattolica, l'arcivescovo Stepinac e gli ebrei, u: Intellettuali versus democrazia, I regini autoritari nell'Europa sud-orientale (1933-1953), a cura di F. Guida, Roma 2010, S. 303-330.

Alcune considerazioni sulla storiografia croata: dallo "spirito di partito" al revisionismo degli anni Novanta, u: Qualestoria 2, anno XXXVII, Trieste, Dicembre 2009, S. 5-30.

Titos Tod und die Folgen (prerađeni izvadak iz knjige Hrvatska 1918-2008.), und: Der Zustand der Nation, 10 kroatische Autoren an der Leipziger Buchmesse 2009, u: Phantom der Freiheit, literaturzeitschrift, 1, Zagreb - Dubrovnik 2009, S. 82-91.

Der Zerfall Jugoslawiens (prerađeni izvadak iz knjige Hrvatska 1918-2008.,) und: Der Zustand der Nation, 10 kroatische Autoren an der Leipziger Buchmesse 2009, und: Phantom der Freiheit, literaturzeitschrift, 1, Zagreb - Dubrovnik 2009, S. 92-102.

Was Yugoslavia good or bad for Its Peoples?, u: Quaderni della Casa Romena di Venezia V, Venezia 2008, Atti del Convegno Internazionale "Romania, Sud-Est Europeo, Europa Centro-Orientale: Modernizzazione e Riforme tra XIX e XX secolo", Venezia, 12-13 novembre 2008), a cura di: Corina Gabriela Badelita, Cristian Alexandru Damian, Monica Joita, S. 49-60.