Семейството в житейските разкази на бесарабските българи

Author(s): Zhenja Pimpireva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The article is devoted to the role of life stories in the study of the family of theBessarabian Bulgarians. The eyewitnesses’ stories (or the stories of their loved ones)contain various appreciations, experiences, feelings, values, and meanings whichallow the reconstruction of their world. The study is based on the life stories collectedduring field ethnographic expeditions conducted in 2009-2010 in villages witha predominant or significant Bulgarian population in the Republic of Moldova andUkraine.The life stories are an invaluable source for the study of the Bessarabian familyin traditional and contemporary perspective. Sharing them requires a climate of trustbetween the respondents and the researcher. The life stories represent a collection ofselected facts and episodes, in which many hidden, suppressed and forgotten thingsremain beyond the narrative. Because of their subjective character, the family is representedin an estimative and emotional way enabling the identification of the trendsin its development and the judgement of its values and morals.

Зборовете на межата. Междуселищни патронни празници у българските преселници в Бесарабия – наблюдения и хипотези

Author(s): Galin Georgiev,Elena Vodinchar / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

One of the typical and relatively stable features of the everyday life of the Bulgarianimmigrants in the historical and cultural region of Bessarabia are the patronal festivalsand customs held within the frameworks of the village, neighbourhood or familyand referred to as zbor/sabor (збор/събор), hram (храм), kurban (курбан), tsarkva(църква), panagir (панагирь), cherkuvane (черкуване), moleben (молебен) etc. Asfor the designation збор (a fair), it is clear that it precedes the Russian designationхрам (a patron saint’s day) which penetrates the region under study later on andwhich is widely used at present. What stirs up bigger interest is the fact that exceptfor village church festivals this term (as well as some of the other above-mentioned) was also used for intervillage festivals held at the landmark of the territories of two,three or more villages – the so-called fairs at the landmark also known as moleben orcherkuvane for rain and good health.As far as the patron saint’s day is a universal Christian phenomenon and stilla general practice in the villages of the region studied here, it could be assumedthat the gathering itself, the making of zbor (or moleben) at the landmark (at theborder between a group of villages), which is neglected today almost everywhere,is a form typical only of the immigrants (Bulgarians and Gagauzians) in Bessarabia.This practice attracts the attention with respect to its nature and development as partof the all-Bulgarian system of patronal village festivals as well as with relation tothe influences, changes and specifics through which it inevitably goes under theconditions of the many-tounged and polycultural environment of Bessarabia and theRussian Orthodox Christianity.The fieldwork materials collected so far do not allow a coprehensive and thickdescription of the phenomena intriguing us as well as a more elaborate analysis.That’s why the article only poses the problem or rather interpretes it in connectionwith some concepts of the kin and family-territorial patronal festivals and customswhich were formulated a long time ago in the Bulgarian science but which are stillrelevant.

Цветан Тодоров (1939–2017) – апостолът на хуманизма, мечтателят за свобода

Author(s): Valentina Sharlanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

Дни на културното наследство в ИЕФЕМ – 2016 г.

Author(s): Petko Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

Изложба „Д-р Евдокия Петева-Филова – завръщане в Двореца“

Author(s): Anita Komitska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

Brunnbauer, Ulf. Globalizing Southeastern Europe. Emigrants, America, and the State since the Late Nineteenth Century. New York, 2016

Author(s): Valentina Sharlanova,Petia Bankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

Пътят на ромската литература в Източна Европа

Author(s): Sofia Zahova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The article makes a brief historical review of the development of Roma publicationsin the countries in Eastern Europe by emphasizing the processes in each country andthe interrelations between their policies regarding the Roma culture and the Roma literary production. The aim of the article is to show that the development of Roma literature is related to the political, social and cultural context in the country or region of its creation. The comparative historical approach is the most appropriate for the purpose since the tendencies in the development of the Roma literature are related to the policies of identity (in general or directed to the Roma population) in different historical periods and regions.

Мила Маева. Българските емигранти в Англия – минало и съвременност. София, 2017

Author(s): Anelia Kassabova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

Революциите в Русия – Изток и Запад

Author(s): Asya Atanasova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

Russia has always been making efforts to define itself, since the rule of Peter I, and even earlier, by comparing itself to Kievan Rus and the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Russia has always managed to revive itself as a country, though always different, but the question remained – was Russia the East or the West, or was it something else, no matter how old it was? In all respects, Russia is Europe and its place is in Europe but the way it is governed always pushes the country toward the East.

LA QUESTION YOUGOSLAVE

Author(s): Auguste Gauvain / Language(s): French

The lack of interest is one of the causes of the most serious mistakes made by the Triple Entente in recent years. Its leading men, civilians and soldiers alike, realized neither the material and moral value of the forces moving in the eastern Adriatic, nor how they should be used. They took into consideration neither the warnings, nor the designs, nor the protests of the representatives of the peoples commonly known as the Balkan, although many of them had nothing in common with the Balkans. Even in a democracy, our ministers preserved the old customs of the great courts; they preferably discussed with the ambassadors of the great consecrated powers and, while showing the other heads of mission outward respect or cordiality, attached little importance to their conversation. As a result, they lost valuable opportunities to learn about things they had not been taught in their youth and which they subsequently neglected to study. They relied more on second- or third-hand intelligence, transmitted by agents who wished to please them by entering into their supposed views, than direct information from qualified foreigners with a deep knowledge of the country and the affairs they came to discuss. They were warned against men whom they held to be interested in speaking in a certain sense, though that interest might match our own. Unfortunately, the concordances were poorly discerned, even in Russia. Despite their status as Slavs, Russian ministers did not understand Yugoslav affairs any better than their Western colleagues. We will be amazed later, when it is revealed what ignorance some of the most eminent of them showed on this subject. The consequences of such errors are too terrible for us not to try to enlighten the public on a question which, by the inevitable chain of circumstances, is now at the forefront of European politics.

Ново изследване за руската позиция към Балканските войни 1912 – 1913

Author(s): Hristo Berov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2021

РЕЦЕПЦИЈА И РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЈА ХОЛОКАУСТА У ИСТОЧНОМ БЕРЛИНУ И БЕОГРАДУ НАКОН ДРУГОГ СВЕТСКОГ РАТА

Author(s): Milena R. Nešić Pavković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 75/2021

The goal of this paper is to investigate the memory of the Holocaust, i.e. the reception and representation of the suffering of the Jewish population during the rule of the Third Reich (under Nazi rule and occupation) in the capitals of the states constituted after the Second World War - in East Berlin, GDR, and Belgrade, SFRY, during the period from 1945 to 1989/1991. Relying on the achievements of memory studies and analyzing the political moods of that time and the ways of constructing official narratives about Jewish suffering in selected post-war Communist countries, the similarities and differences in the policy of representing Jewish suffering in these two countries and the memory of Jewish victims in places of remembrance and in the practices of remembrance in their capitals will be pointed out.

ПЕТНАДЕСЕТЪ ГОДИНИ БАЛКАНСКА ИСТОРИЯ (1904-1918)

Author(s): Léon Lamouche / Language(s): Bulgarian

essential to expose, with some details, the question of Macedonia which is, in a way, the central point at the same time as the origin, of the events that I will have to relate, to show the development of this question in the XIXth century as well as the situation of the Macedonian region when the Powers, on the initiative of Russia and Austria, decided to send their representatives there. (The author has been Honorary Consul General of Bulgaria, former member of the French section of the International Mission for the Reorganization of the Ottoman Gendarmerie). BULGARIAN EDITION ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1930 by the NATIONAL MACEDONIAN COMMITTEE, SOFIA

Le Balkan Slave et la Crise autrichienne

Author(s): Charles Loiseau / Language(s): French

This book was begun when public attention, held for more than a year by the affairs of Armenia, Crete and the Greco-Turkish conflict, was suddenly brought back to the Austrian crisis. Its object being to present, not only the Serbs, the Montenegrins and the Bulgarians, but all the South Slavic race, spread from the Black Sea to Trieste, to the state of entity, of ethnic individuality, if the we can say, finally, one by origin, tendencies, interests and international function, - we can well admit that because of certain folds of the Western spirit it seemed to us several times of a difficult realization. On the one hand, it was necessary to insist on the ethnographic data and to put forward one of those theories of “nationalities” which fascinated the generation of 1848, even that of 1860, but are now considered outdated. On the other hand, it was necessary to break with certain usual classifications, which are above all inspired by the outline of the political border: we are used to considering that the "Balkan" begins at the precise point where the Empire ends. of the Habsburgs, and no more solidarity is admitted between these two worlds than between the so-called "Austrian" questions and the Eastern question. (From the author’s introduction) ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN1898 BY PERRIN ET CIE, LIBRAIRES-ÉDITEURS, PARIS

HAMSIBEG. Ein Roman aus den Gebirgswildnissen der Balkanhalbinsel.

Author(s): Hans Kadich von Pferd / Language(s): German

A novel, published in 1903 and based on several years of travels through the Western Balkans Region. The digitized print-original has been printed in German Fraktura font. Please edit the Introduction.pdf to make sure whether you'll be able to read the text.

Les Événements politiques en Bulgarie depuis 1876 jusqu’a nos Jours (=1896)

Author(s): Antoine Georgiev Drandar / Language(s): French

In 1876, an insurrection broke out in several places in Bulgaria which was stifled in islands of blood by irregular Turkish troops, later joined by those of the line. The repression was abominable, it excited general indignation in Europe. // In the meantime, the Serbian army crossed the frontier to pacify, so says the manifesto of King Milan, the insurgent provinces. The vanquished Serbian troops left the road to the heart of Serbia open to the Turks. Alexander II ordered by a telegram, dated Livadia, the suspension of hostilities before forty-eight hours. He threatened, if his order was not obeyed, to break off diplomatic relations immediately. The Turks stopped. … On December 11, 1876, the delegates of the five great powers, with the exception of Turkey, met in Constantinople, in a preliminary session, in order to work out the program of proposals which were to be presented to the Porte by a Conference meeting to agree on the conditions of peace to be dictated to Turkey on one side, to Serbia and Montenegro on the other.

La Bulgarie Contemporaine. Édition officielle du Ministère Belgique du Commerce et de l’Agriculture

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): French

Bulgaria can be proud today of the results achieved. The perseverance in the path of progress has been crowned with success. The organization is now complete. In all branches of public life order has been introduced. The spirit of organization that all historians, and in particular the Slavic historian Irecêk, have noticed in the ancient Bulgarian people has revealed itself again. … We must recall here the great part it has just taken at the International Exhibition of Liège, where one can note in a way, so to speak, palpably, the progress made by it in all branches of the economy. national. This book is precisely intended, in the mind of its authors, to complete the knowledge of Bulgaria that those who have visited its Pavilion at the Exhibition have been able to acquire. It can be read with interest by all those who wish to know our country. (from the Introduction)

Чешката и словашката следа в България

Author(s): Ivana Srbková / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review

Книги 2023–2024

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 48/2024

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year.

Периодика 2024–2024

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 48/2024