Götz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, "not a big one," but one that "requires efficiency." Their task is to transport five thousand concentration camp prisoners, one hundred at a time, in a hermetically sealed truck in which they are gassed. As Albahari's anonymous narrator, a teacher, obsessively pursues the truth of this systematic annihilation, he shares his findings with his students. Their school bus becomes that truck, and as the memory of Belgrade's lost Jewish souls is evoked, the students are bewildered. Their teacher, exhausted as much by the task of making history come alive as by the toll his research has taken on him, is finally overwhelmed by the horror of his own imaginings. A masterfully written story of the mass murder of Serbia's Jews in 1942, full of compassion, irony, and lyricism.

Gotz And Meyer

Literature & Fiction

Albahari, David

Elias-Bursac, Ellen

Contemporary

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Götz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, “not a big one,” but one that “requires efficiency.” Their task is to transport prisoners from a concentration camp near Belgrade in a hermetically sealed truck, in which they are asphyxiated. The nameless narrator of Götz and Meyer, a Jewish schoolteacher, discovers Wilhelm Götz and Erwin Meyer while researching the deaths of his relatives. Overwhelmed by the horror of his discoveries as they become entangled with his own feverish imaginings, he organizes a class trip. The school bus becomes Götz and Meyer’s truck, and the teacher and his students merge with Belgrade’s lost souls in a sacred act of remembering.

Mariner Books

With the disintegration of Yugoslavia has come a shifting of linguistic boundaries, chiefly along political lines. Out of this complex situation three official languages have emerged: Croatian in Croatia, Serbian in Serbia, and both these languages plus Bosnian in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook introduces the student to all three. Dialogues and exercises appear in each language, presented side by side for easy comparison; in addition, Serbian is rendered in both its Latin and its Cyrillic spellings. Teachers may choose a single language to use in the classroom, or they may want to familiarize students with all three. Features of the textbook include: 
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<li>All dialogues, exercises, and homework assignments available in Bosnian, Croatian, or Serbian</li> <li>Classroom exercises designed for both small-group and full-class work, allowing for maximum oral participation</li> <li>Reading selections written by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian authors especially for this book</li> <li>Vocabulary lists for each individual section and full glossaries at the end of the book</li> <li>A short animated film, on an accompanying DVD, for use with chapter 15</li> <li>Brief grammar explanations after each dialogue, with cross-reference to more detailed grammar chapters in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar
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Available separately, the audio supplement (ISBN 0-299-22110-5) offers audio recordings of all dialogues in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, a Textbook.

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook: With Exercises and Basic Grammar

Alexander, Ronelle

University of Wisconsin Press

Three official languages have emerged in the Balkan region that was formerly Yugoslavia: Croatian in Croatia, Serbian in Serbia, and both of these languages plus Bosnian in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook introduces the student to all three. Dialogues and exercises are presented in each language, shown side by side for easy comparison; in addition, Serbian is rendered in both its Latin and its Cyrillic spellings. Teachers may choose a single language to use in the classroom, or they may familiarize students with all three. This popular textbook is now revised and updated with current maps, discussion of a Montenegrin language, advice for self-study learners, an expanded glossary, and an appendix of verb types. It also features: • All dialogues, exercises, and homework assignments available in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian • Classroom exercises designed for both small-group and full-class work, allowing for maximum oral participation • Reading selections written by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian authors especially for this book • Vocabulary lists for each individual section and full glossaries at the end of the book • A short animated film, on an accompanying DVD, for use with chapter 15 • Brief grammar explanations after each dialogue, with a cross-reference to more detailed grammar chapters in the companion book, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar.

Holograms of Fear

Tells the story of a young woman who has to face the experience of a kidney transplant operation after years of dialysis. From the author of "How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed".

Drakulić, Slavenka

The Women"s Press

How can defendants be tried if they cannot understand the charges being raised against them? Can a witness testify if the judges and attorneys cannot understand what the witness is saying? Can a judge decide whether to convict or acquit if she or he cannot read the documentary evidence? The very viability of international criminal prosecution and adjudication hinges on the massive amounts of translation and interpreting that are required in order to run these lengthy, complex trials, and the procedures for handling the demands facing language services. This book explores the dynamic courtroom interactions in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in which witnesses testify through an interpreter about translations, attorneys argue through an interpreter about translations and the interpreting, and judges adjudicate on the interpreted testimony and translated evidence.

Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War (Palgrave Studies in Languages at War)

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

In New Approaches to Balkan Studies, the editors have collected thirteen papers that explore issues of image and national identity in the Balkans; democracy, nationalism, and the related ethnic and political conflicts that have plagued the region; and leadership and conflict in Yugoslavia throughout the twentieth century. The contributors presented these papers at the annual Socrates Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, which was organized by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The contributors—international scholars in disciplines that include literature, economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, international relations, and public policy—lead the reader to a less-traveled path to the study of the Balkans.

New Approaches to Balkan Studies

History

Europe

Potomac Books Inc.

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Gotz And Meyer

Gotz And Meyer

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook: With Exercises and Basic Grammar

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook: With Exercises and Basic Grammar

Holograms of Fear

Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War (Palgrave Studies in Languages at War)

Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War (Palgrave Studies in Languages at War)

New Approaches to Balkan Studies