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Construction of autobiographical memory in life histories is important research subject in humanities and social sciences. Although autobiographical memory can be selective and unreliable, it is important for in-vestigation of microhistory, tradition, identity, space, social perception, as well as daily life in the city. Memories of city in life histories include reconstruction and mapping of different spaces, places, objects, phenomena, which designate recognizable symbols or marks of identity. Relying on contemporary research of space and place in semiotics, narratology, social history and anthropology, the paper discusses an oral history interview with Djordje Trifunović (b. 1934), Professor of Medieval literature at Belgrade Universi-ty, Faculty of Philology, and examines his autobiographical memories of daily life in the Belgrade “pe-riphery of Cvetko’s coffeehouse” (Cvetkova mehana), from the late 1930’s until the end of the Second World War, which is today an urban neighborhood in the Belgrade municipality Zvezdara. In analysis of chosen fragments of Trifunović’s memories, several points are indicated: representation of centre and periphery, creating the image of the city, representation of space and place. Special attention is paid to the freedom of movement and shaping of narrative identity in the period when Belgrade was growing from town into city, and when war and German occupation brutally interrupted that growth.
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This is a review of Levon Harutiunian's book Siberia dus-întos. Memorii, Meteor Publishing, Bucureşti, 2014.
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This is a review of Radu Surdulescu's book O formă de tinereţe. 1956-1962: anii contrarevoluţionari, Editura Vremea, Bucureşti, 2015.
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The Ballad on Warrior Girl, which is widely spread in almost all European ballad traditions - although under different titles - has enormous cultural-anthropological potential in its poetical discourse, as has been widely discussed in folkloristic and literary studies. In this article we wanted to show for the fi rst time on the example of Croatian tradition the possibility of critical reading of historical-geographic tradition,and the importance of poetic discourse and its metaphorical hermeneutics for the history of the poem. Primarily, we wanted to demonstrate that the archive readings are not incompatible with the readings of contemporary literary theory. We have seen that the plot of this ballad repeats in short the history of the study of this ballad, concerned with structuralist reading of the poetical discourse in the manner of Lord and Parry “oral theory school” or of the “neo-traditionalist school”, which are also seenin this article to be far from being competitive schools of study (as was sometimes believed). As far as the historical-geographical method is concerned in the study of Croatian traditional ballads from Slavonia, it is shown that this method cannot bring any substantially new insights without the support of thorough study of linguistic (especially dialectological) methods of study. However, the insights of the Spanishneo-traditionalist school, and particular of Diego Catalán-Menéndez Pidal and his study of metaphoric potentials of traditional poetry indicate that, even without any strictly rigorous methodological procedure of the historical-geographical method, and without the help of linguistic methods of studies, some suggestions may be drawn from intercultural empathical cultural narrative exchanges and/or borrowings. The plot of this ballad has multi-layered meanings: it can be understood either as the storyof maturation, of “honour and shame”, or as the story of “quiet female diplomacy”, depending on different narratological frames (in an absence of testimonies on family traditional “song-maker procedures”). Generally speaking and taking into account the few examples, Slavonian variants are shown to be more lyrical than those from the rest of the Croatian regions, although very impressive and illustrative, as these poems were sung or narrated in dance circles, as was testifi ed to by Matica hrvatska / MatrixCroatica XIXth century collectors.
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An oral history interview with Mimi Jiránkova and Nataša Lišková
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Conference report form "15th international meeting of historians and supporters of oral history", Sovinec, 10 – 12 June 2016
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The article is dedicated to the problem of typology of annalistic tribes, which existed before the formation of the Old-Russian state. We analyze the modern historiography of the problem, the latest methodological approaches used to solve it, and their heuristic potential. Based on the plot of “The Tale of Bygone Years” and using comparative historical and archaeological material, we reconstruct the structure of annalistic tribes, their social hierarchy and government system. We prove the idea about the long-term preservation of egalitarian features in the Eastern Slavs, which led to the heterarchical model of politogenesis, formed on the basis of military democracy.
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Recording of the panel discussion during the 10th workshop of the Polish Oral History Society, Warsaw, October 23, 2021.
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Zorganizowana przez Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość” Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa „Historia mówiona pogranicza” była kolejnym już w ostatnich latach spotkaniem naukowym w Polsce skupionym na oral history.
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Jednym z postulatów ostatniego Zgromadzenia Walnego PTHM było nawiązanie nowych kontaktów i pogłębienie współpracy międzynarodowej. Tegoroczne zebranie odbyło się tuż po zakończeniu międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej „Historia mówiona pogranicza”, która zgromadziła we wrocławskim Centrum Historii Zajezdnia badaczki i badaczy z różnych części Europy.
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The article outlines the results of field studies conducted in selected villages in the Bieszczady Mountains. The purpose of the studies was to show the perspective of women in the context of life in the Bieszczady Mountains. The author briefly presents the history of the studied region and the importance of studies relating women in the humanities, and exposes the lack of women’s narratives in the common discourse concerning the area after 1945.
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In oral histories important place is occupied by folklore genres such as legends, oral traditions, proverbs, aphorisms, traditional sayings, anecdotes, explanations, charms and so on-that are very popular among contemporary population who reveal great interest to them up today. During the research of the proverbs and traditional sayings we confront with certain problems as their allegorical meaning is not connected to a certain fact, accordingly for making sense of them it is necessary to investigate them in the context. Such opportunity was given in the oral histories. The topic of investigation of proverbs and traditional sayings became our aim during fieldwork when we discovered that population used it wide scale, especially aged people. Later when we started the study of the theoretical material on this topic we discovered that the problem was brought forward still in 1957 by folklorist Pikria Zandukeli. She marked that during fieldwork in Upper Imereti she could not find a narrator who managed to make a list of proverbs alike samples of other genres, though she had a chance to collect them when the narrator used them during narration for strengthening the facts throughout story telling. Hence it is clear that people used proverbs and traditional sayings for confirming and turning stronger their opinion in the context (Zandukeli 1964: 148-149). If we look through the history of inestigation of proverbs we can discover diversity of researches. In 1953 prof. M. Chikovani in old Georgian literature discovered that the word “Proverb” was used in the meaning of “a short story” too. Parnaoz Ertelishvili took attention to the figurative meaning of proverbs (1957). On the problem of proverb a broad investigation was made by prof. Ksenia sikharulidze (1960 ).
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The study is part of a larger research project, the main aim of which is to examine, using the oral history method, identity changes, multiple attachments, and deeper aspects of integration strategies of Jews who migrated from South Slovakia to Israel. The paper develops the life story of Yehudit Cohen (née Judit Grünfeld) on the basis of a biographical interview conducted in Israel. Judit's family is one of those Jews from Dunaszerdahely (Dunajská Streda) who were born in Czechoslovakia, but in the 1960s they too immigrated to Israel, i.e. made Aliyah. During the life history interview, the interviewee tells of her parents' destiny events leading up to the period of the Holocaust. Both of them were deported, but they were among the few Jews who returned to Dunaszerdahely. Anti-Semitism continued to be present in Czechoslovakia during the party-state years, so the family moved to Israel (made aliyah) in 1963 in the hope of a better future. The paper describes the difficulties of the initial years in Israel, the most problematic of which was learning Hebrew. It also shows how relatives and acquaintances coming from Czechoslovakia, especially from Dunaszerdahely, helped each other a great deal after the Aliyah. The study also highlights Judit's multiple identities, mainly through her multiple language skills and her preparation of Central European dishes, within which her Israeli identity dominates.
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By employing the lens of the sociology of law, this research analyzes how the historicalevents in the first half of the 20th century have influenced the shape of contemporary Polishlegal practise. By utilising qualitative in-depth interviews, insights were gathered from sea-soned Polish legal professionals, many of whom had embarked on their careers in the periodof People’s Republic of Poland or during the transformation in the 1990s. Their testimoniesnot only shed light on the evolution of the way lawyers’ work but they also emphasize theintricate interplay between societal structures and the application of law today and in thepast. The study reveals an inextricable link between the socio-political context of the pastand the present-day legal framework, ethics, and lawyers’ practice, thus highlighting thenecessity of integrating the perspective of the sociology of law in modern legal practice.
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As announced in the article Czas na analizę (Time for analysis),1 five Oral History Seminars were held in Warsaw from January to May 2023. This initiative of the Polish Oral History Association and the Qualitative Data Archive of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (hereinafter: IFiS PAN) brought a large group of researchers from various disciplines as well as representatives of cultural institutions and NGOs from all over Poland to the hospitable Staszic Palace in Warsaw. The number of people present ranged from 22 to 36 people, and sometimes there were not enough chairs in the room to accommodate everyone. Apart from the participants from Warsaw the seminars were attended by guests from Białystok, Gdańsk, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Olsztyn, Toruń and Wrocław. They represented such institutions as: the L. Zamenhoff Centre in Białystok, the Gdańsk Museum, the Dobra Wola Foundation from Kraków, the ‘Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre’ in Lublin, the State Archives in Olsztyn, the ‘Remembrance and Future’ Centre in Wrocław. Representatives of the Pilecki Institute, the Warsaw branch of the Institute of National Remembrance, the Karta Center and the Centre of Community Archives were also present. This list of attendees shows how diverse the group of participants was, what precisely reflects the nature of oral history practised both in the academy and beyond.
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The aim of the article is to recall the essential information about the position of the oral history method in historiography, but above all it brings arguments supporting the use of the oral history method in history education in relation to Strategy 2030+. It presents concrete forms of the use of oral history method in method sheets contained in current German history textbooks and their comparison with Czech production. It attempts to show that the oral history method can improve students’ historical awareness in history education, motivate them to take a greater interest in contemporary history and implement the challenges of Strategy 2030+.
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Conference Report: Divided, yet still together at COHA 2023 (FF UK, Bratislava, 9–10 February 2023) // Zpráva z konference: Rozdělení, přesto stále spolu na konferenci COHA 2023 (FF UK, Bratislava, 9.–10. 2. 2023)
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