Prikazi

Author(s): Ranka Jeknić,Vesna Ivanović,Aleksandar Vukić,Mirela Brodnjak,Gordan Maslov / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 4/2008

Reviews of: 1. Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello „The New Spirit Of Capitalism“, Verso, London – New York, 2007, 656 str., by Gordan Maslov; 2. Richard Florida „Cities And The Creative Class“, Routledge, London – New York, 2004, 198 str., by Mirela Brodnjak; 3. Dragutin Babić „Suživot hrvata i srba u Slavoniji - (re)konstrukcija multietničkih lokalnih zajednica nakon ratnih sukoba“, Golden marketing – Tehnička knjiga, Zagreb, 2008, 256 str., by Aleksandar Vukić; 4. Boris Kršev „Finansijska politika Jugoslavije 1918–1941“, Novi Sad, Prometej, 2007, 371 str., by Vesna Ivanović; 5. Međunarodni znanstveni skup: “Sociologija Srđana Vrcana: ideologije i teorije” Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, 12. rujna 2008. godine, by Ranka Jeknić.

Българо-американски контакти в сферата на образованието и науката след края на Студената война

Author(s): Simona Samuilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The article aims to analyze the history of Bulgarian-American relationship after the end of the Cold War with an emphasis on the changes that occur in the scientific and educational contacts between the two countries. The study is based on unpublished documents from the Scientific Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS),Diplomatic Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the „Commission for Disclosure of Documents and Announcing Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens with the State Security and the Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Armed Forces“, official documents and published data of American educational and research institutions, as well as the research of leading authors and participants in the events. The analysis of the changes in the bilateral cooperation after the end of the Cold War found the educational exchange programs of the U.S. Nongovernmental Organizations to be incapable of rapid transformation in line with the new political realities. Their place was taken by the American universities, which proved to be far more “flexible” and able to respond to the changing needs of time.

Светът в криза: политики и медийни отражения

Author(s): Kristiyan Kovachev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

Bulgarische Familien zur Zeit der Wiedergeburt (In Memoriam Panajot D. Maždrakov)

Author(s): Antoaneta Zapryanova / Language(s): German Issue: 1-2/2000

Болгарское присутствие в иностранных духовных (восточно-православных) учебных заведениях (1878-1912)

Author(s): Ivan Tanchev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1-2/2000

Георги Димитров. Дневник (9 март 1933 - 6 февруари 1949). (Дневник (9 марта - 6 февраля 1949). София, Университетско издателство „Св. Кл. Охридски“, 1997. 791 с.

Author(s): Milen Kumanov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1-2/2000

Book review

Scientific Conference “120 Years of the Executive in Bulgaria”

Author(s): Vanya Stoyanova / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2000

Holocaust Testimony, Autobiography, and the Effaced Self.

Author(s): Janine Holc / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Autobiography is often writing about how a “self” forms over time as it is affected by the conditions it encounters. This definition can be problematic for Holocaust autobiography, because hiding one’s self from others and repressing one’s desires and impulses became crucial to survival. This essay traces the processes by which a “self” emerges for one Holocaust writer and survivor, Helen S., through archival documents, testimonies and memoirs over time. Helen S.’s example demonstrates how an effaced self can have a textual presence before the writer can allow herself to fully inhabit a traumatic personal history.

Letters to the JDC as Autobiographical Sources of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

Author(s): Joanna Śliwa / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

After the Holocaust, Jewish survivors in Poland relied on external help, including that of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint, JDC). They wrote letters to JDC both to request and to thank the American-based Jewish organization for i.a. food, clothes, medicine, and assistance with emigration from Poland. Many of those letters also contain autobiographical information about the authors, themselves Holocaust survivors and their families. The descriptions of wartime experiences and survival strategies as well as of immediate postwar life (1945–1949) entail details and snippets of historical and genealogical value. Therefore, the letters examined in this article offer both individual histories and a collective portrait of the Jewish population in postwar Poland. The epistolary material also captures JDC’s activities and their importance for reviving and sustaining Jewish life after the Holocaust.

Shimon Samet and the Gap in the Story

Author(s): Yehoshua (Shuki) Ecker / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

This article offers a close reading of personal memoirs about coming of age in Żółkiew in Eastern Galicia and about transitions on the way to immigration to Mandatory Palestine before WWII. It focuses on gaps in the fragmentary autobiographical texts written by Shimon Samet, a native of the town, who became an accomplished professional journalist in Israel, and reconstructs missing pieces of narrative about Samet’s brother and about the Zionist micro universe of transition and training sites in Galicia of the early 1920’s. It points to significant explanatory possibilities gained by identifying such gaps in personal and commemorative narratives.

A People’s Biography: Ada El’evna Raichonak and Her Hermanavichy

Author(s): Anika Walke / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The article advances an approach to studying 20th century Jewish experience in the former Pale of Jewish Settlement that foregrounds individual biographies and places them in a larger cultural and historical context. Drawing on interviews and various other sources, this approach reveals, among others, how individuals challenge familiar categories of identification and thereby appeal to flexible research agendas.

Foreign Trade in the Economic Policy of the Popular Bloc in Bulgaria (1931-1934)

Author(s): Martin Ivanov / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2000

Македонский вопрос в творчестве П. Н. Милюкова

Author(s): Rumyana Andreeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3-4/2000

Jan Tomasz Gross – biografia symboliczna. (Uwagi na marginesie …bardzo dawno temu, mniej więcej w zeszły piątek…)

Author(s): Michał Kopczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

The article focuses on the self-creation dimension of the autobiographic narrative by Jan Tomasz Gross contained in his book …Long, Long Time Ago, More or Less Last Friday… (an example of talk literature). In his analysis, Kopczyk brings out the biographic models into which the authorprotagonist inscribes his life, paying attention to their relation with the Polish patriotic tradition, and romantic tradition in particular. In the fate of the protagonist, he perceives elements of “a typical romantic biography,” including the motif of mission and pilgrimage (for one’s homeland). The conclusion of the article suggests a relationship between Gross’s self-creation project and his work as a historian revealing the truth about the fates of Polish Jews during World War 2 and afterwards. Inscribing his own biography into “good models” alleviates what Gross perceives as personal consequences of disturbing the social taboo related to Polish people’s participation in the extermination of the Jewish minority.

Bunt i melancholia. Obraz życia anarchisty w Memuarn fun Lejbn

Author(s): Piotr Laskowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

The subject of the paper is a unique autobiographical text written in interwar Poland by a Jewish anarchist. A small booklet in Yiddish, Memuarn oder shpliters fun a lebn fun Leybn (also known as Memuarn fun Leybn) was published in 1933 in Łódź; the Polish translation appeared in 2017 under the title Memuary albo okruchy z życia Lejba. In the first part of the paper the author of the text, Leyb Berkenvald, known as “Leyb the Anarchist,” is identified and described, with a focus on the social milieu to which he belonged, and his position on the map of interwar anarchism. In the second part, Leyb’s autobiography is analyzed from the perspective of the microhistory of affects to reveal an alternative form of male subjectivity emerging from the text, which countered the dominant, heteronormative model of masculinity. This specific form of subjectivity is interpreted – both in its hopes and disappointments – in the context of an unattainable messianic community which Leyb strove to conceive.

Poradziecka prawnuczka: (auto)biograficzna narracja międzypokoleniowa w powieści graficznej Soviet Daughter Julii Alekseyevej

Author(s): Karolina Krasuska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

The article analyzes the graphic novel Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution (2017), a literary text that belongs to a dynamically developing post-Soviet Jewish American writing, as a transgenerational (auto)biographical narrative of a great grandmother and a great granddaughter. The titular “Soviet daughter” refers primarily to the great grandmother and her political genealogy; yet because of the shared migration trajectory, ideological affinities, and the construction of the text itself, it can be also read as describing the leftist great granddaughter. The novel focuses on the flight survivors who lived through the war in the Soviet hinterland; moreover, because of the genealogical distance of it protagonists, it allows us for “adoptive witnessing” of the Soviet Russia, as well as the great grandmother’s communist past. In this way, the texts displaces American literary memory of the Holocaust that here intersects with the memory of the (pre-war) communism.

Арутюн Улунян. Коммунистическая партия Греции (В четырех томах: 60-е гг. XIX в. - 1941 г.; 1941-1956 гг.; 1956-1974 гг.; 1975-1991гг.)

Author(s): Luiza Revyakina / Language(s): French Issue: 3-4/2000

Book Review

Matka-aktywistka: międzywojenna autobiografia Sofii Dubnow-Erlich

Author(s): Magdalena Kozłowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

The subject of this article is a case study based on analysis of Sofia Dubnow-Erlich’s autobiography fragments concerning the interwar period. A closer look at the autobiographical texts written by the activist and writer associated with the Bund allows to trace her approach to her own life plans. It also gives a broader look at the Jewish history of activism, and intellectual and political activity in the Second Polish Republic. Reading the memoirs allows us to capture the gender perspective and shows whether and to what extent the gender influenced the actions taken by the author.

Gender, emocje i praktyki życia codziennego Żydów na Dolnym Śląsku w latach 1945–1972. Narracja biograficzna Aliny M.

Author(s): Agnieszka Ilwicka-Karuna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

In this article we analyze one interview that is part of an oral history project about Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia entitled “Love in the ruins: the history of Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia 1945–1972.” All the interviews, including the one that is presented here, are focused on everyday life, growing up, emotions, and relationships of Polish Jews in Lower Silesia after World War II. The gender of the narrator plays a significant role in this project. Oral history is a medium in which we can acknowledge the experiences of the Jewish community that are not described in other sources, such as documents created by the Jewish Committee, reports from Jewish clubs, or even in written memoirs.

България и Русия през 20 век. Българо-руски научни дискусии. Редакционна колегия: Витка Тошкова, Луиза Ревякина, Стоян Пинтев, Лизбет Любенова, Лъчезар Стоянов. София, Издателство „Гутенберг“, 2000. 448 с.

Author(s): Vanya Stoyanova / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2000

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