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Author(s): Natan Grinberg / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,French,Armenian

This book was rejected for almost seventy years. First published in 1945, it was suppressed immediately. After 1945, it was neither republished nor studied; for decades, it was not even cited in Bulgaria. Almost nothing was known about it's author; tracking him down turned out to be an inexplicably difficult task. Anonymity and oblivion - that was the price of his work which first described the deportation of Jews from Thrace, Macedonia and Pirot. A story that would become one of the biggest taboos in Bulgarian history for at least half a century. The author passed away in the late 1980's, never living to see his name in it's rightful place: among the first researchers to reveal the unthinkable history of the Holocaust.

Прабългарска ономастика

Author(s): Boris Simeonov / Language(s): Bulgarian

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Прабългарска ономастика

Author(s): Boris Simeonov / Language(s): Bulgarian

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Прабългарска ономастика

Author(s): Boris Simeonov / Language(s): Bulgarian

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Жената в българското средновековие

Author(s): Sashka Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian

This book offers an overall research on the history of mediaeval Bulgarian women trying to encompass all aspects of life over the whole period of existence of Bulgaria during the Middle Ages. The first chapter of the book is devoted to the task of revealing as much thoroughly as possible the mediaeval model about the woman, about her place and role in society, the term ideological model constituting the combination of religious, ethic, social and political and esthetical notions, concepts and ideas about women characteristic for the mediaeval Bulgarian society. All data about women’s rights and obligations that can be found in mediaeval Bulgarian legal sources are thoroughly analyzed in the second chapter of the book. The peculiarities of the sources revealed and the goals set to be achieved in the first two chapters of the book define the main aim of the last part, which is to try to reveal the real presence of women in the economic, religious and political life in mediaeval Bulgaria.

България и номадите до началото на XI век

Author(s): Hristo DIMITROV / Language(s): Bulgarian

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Българското царство при династията на Тертеревци (1280 – 1323)

Author(s): Krasimir S. Krastev / Language(s): Bulgarian

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Кавханите и ичиргу боилите на Българското ханство-царство (VІІ–ХІ в.)

Author(s): Vasil Gyuzelev / Language(s): Bulgarian

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Чудният свят на древните българи

Author(s): Rumen Daskalov / Language(s): Bulgarian

This is a book about the history and the origin of the Proto-Bulgarians and their way to the Balkans and it follows the concept for modern Proto-Bulgarian history. What can be called "modern" is the fact, that the sources on which this book is based are rather different from the well known and traditionally used Latin and Byzantine authors, but among the reviewed sources are Chinese, Indian, Arab, Armenian and other texts of different types ans genres. The author Rumen Daskalov is giving his own interpretations and the purpose of his analysis is to emphasize, summarize and promote the best accomplishments of the Bulgarian school of Proto-Bulgarian history.

Twenty Years After: the Gandhi School and Beyond. Secondary Education of the Roma/Gypsies in Hungary During the Transition Years

Author(s): Renáta Anna Dezső / Language(s): English

The Romani people have historically lived on the margins of Western society. Educational access on all levels for the Romani people has been particularly problematic throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Numerous studies have documented that Romani children underachieve and fail to complete school at rates significantly higher than the non-Romani population. One bright spot in the education of Roma is the work of the Gandhi School in Pécs, Hungary. The Gandhi School has been working to improve the future of Romani children in Hungary since 1994 and has numerous success stories to share. This current work by Renáta Anna Dezső is an important piece that helps to explain the education condition of Romani students and document the work of the Gandhi School. It is a substantial addition to the literature in English on this topic and will be a useful resource to a variety of educators, researchers and policy makers interested in Romani education.Dr. Jason M. MorrisFulbright ScholarGraduate DirectorGraduate School – Higher EducationAbilene Christian UniversityTexas, USAThe Romani people have historically lived on the margins of Western society. Educational access on all levels for the Romani people has been particularly problematic throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Numerous studies have documented that Romani children underachieve and fail to complete school at rates significantly higher than the non-Romani population. One bright spot in the education of Roma is the work of the Gandhi School in Pécs, Hungary. The Gandhi School has been working to improve the future of Romani children in Hungary since 1994 and has numerous success stories to share. This current work by Renáta Anna Dezső is an important piece that helps to explain the education condition of Romani students and document the work of the Gandhi School. It is a substantial addition to the literature in English on this topic and will be a useful resource to a variety of educators, researchers and policy makers interested in Romani education. Dr. Jason M. MorrisFulbright ScholarGraduate DirectorGraduate School – Higher EducationAbilene Christian UniversityTexas, USA

Istorii venețiene

Author(s): Giovanni Giacomo Caroldo / Language(s): Romanian,Italian

Началото и краят на света. Тивериадското море. Разказ за Адам и Ева

Author(s): Borjana Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian

This book presents the two main Old-Bulgarian dualistic apocrypha dealing with the creation of this world, that is part of The Secret Book of Bogomils, and also a legend about the Antichrist and the end of the world.

The Hidden Secrets: Late Byzantium in the Western and Polish Context

Author(s): Małgorzata Dąbrowska / Language(s): English

Professor Małgorzata Dąbrowska, a distinguished scholar dealing with the history of Byzantium in the Middle Ages, belongs to the few Byzantinists who have become internationally acclaimed. A considerable part of her output concerns Polish-Byzantine relations which are hardly known to foreign scholars because of the language barrier, and yet they attract the interest of scholars all over the world as a new aspect of Byzantine studies. The publication of English and French works by Małgorzata Dąbrowska will thus facilitate better understanding between the Latin and Orthodox milieux in the European world. The author’s style is absolutely superb, regardless of the fact whether her texts are written in Polish or in other languages. This adds another quality to her oeuvre. // From the review by Professor Maciej Salamon

Csodaszarvas I.

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

Ми смо Немци. Етнички идентитет припадника немачке националне мањине у Војводини на почетку 21. века

Author(s): Aleksandar Krel / Language(s): Serbian

The presence of a German population in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in the north of the Republic of Serbia, is the result of historical circumstances. They were settled there at the time of the mass colonisation of Southern Hungary and the Middle Danube region in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. This colonisation—aimed at boosting the economic and defensive military capacities of the territories annexed to the Habsburg Monarchy as a result of a series of Austro-Ottoman wars— changed noticeably the ethnic map of that part of Europe. During this highly complex migratory process, large numbers of crafts men, farmers, public servants and army veterans, attracted by enticing benefits, left the German lands/principalities to settle and make a home in the Pannonian Plain. Until the twentieth century most settlers lived in rural areas, functioning as small and rela tively closed agricultural communities. Their members lived abiding by religious principles and observing customs, which helped them to preserve their local German dialects and develop distinctive cultural features. Some of those settled in urban areas made a significant contribution to the economic and cultural de velopment of present-day Vojvodina. After the First World War and the disintegration of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Germans in Vojvodina, Croatia, Slove nia and Bosnia became citizens of the newly-created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SCS) and were soon recognised as a national minority. In the interwar Kingdom of SCS (renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929) the German minority made every effort to preserve its ethnic and cultural distinctiveness: many cultural and political organisations were active and productively participated in the public and political life of the country. The defeat of the Third Reich in the Second World War caused much trouble for the German community in Vojvodina. As was the case with the German minority in all of South-East Europe, the participation of many Yugoslavs of German origin in military, paramilitary and police forces which had fought on the side of the defeated Germany led to almost all members of the German minority being labelled as collaborationists and incurring widespread odium as such. For the purpose of punishment, Yugoslav authorities set up camps for mass internment of German Yugoslavs who had not fled before Yugoslav partisan and Soviet Red Army troops. Pursuant to newly-adopted regulations, the internment was combined with the loss of property and civil rights. Only a few thousand members of the German community were exempted from the sanctions and allowed to keep their citizenship and property, usually on account of their own or a family member’s participation in the People’s Liberation Movement (NOP). In the early 1950s the process of dissolving the camps and repatriation took place. As most members of the German minority chose to emigrate to Germany or Austria, in the mid-1960s there remained in Yugoslavia only a small number, and mostly concentrated in Vojvodina. Their position was gradually improving, but the hardships they had experienced and the strong antiGerman sentiment in the wake of the war led them to opt for the strategy of ethnic mimicry. In that period, the Germans of Vojvodina consciously concealed their own and publicly demonstrated ethnic identity symbols of the ethnic communities that enjoyed an advantageous social status. Their ethnic mimicry strategy was made much easier by the markedly multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual character of Vojvodina, and the transfer of ethnic identity symbols was also bolstered by a high rate of ethnic exogamy and their shared religious affiliation with members of neighbouring ethnic communities.

Срби у Темишвару

Author(s): Mirjana Pavlović / Language(s): Serbian

This book is dedicated to the customs, culture and way of life of Serbs in Timisoara. The emphasis is on the strategies of constructing and achieving community and layered identities (national/ethnic, dual, regional, local) within a historic discourse. The data presented in this book has been gathered through various means. Aside from archival material and statistical data on the life of the community, as well as relevant theoretical approaches in the study of ethnicity, the most important data was acquired through fieldwork. The research began in 2002, and took place over a series of short-term visits to the city in 2002, 2003 and 2005. The method of participant observation was applied to many everyday as well as festive situations in the family and social lives of Serbs in Timisoara. I have attended numerous liturgies, weddings, christenings, choir and folklore association rehearsals and performances, family and social celebrations and sporting events. Interviews, surveys and informal conversations were conducted with members of the community encompassing both sexes, all ages and varying social status, political and religious affiliations. Among my informants there were people whose connections to the church weren’t strong, as well as people from mixed marriages. Aside from this, I had tried to gather data on the lives of Serbs between the World wars or earlier indirectly – through the narratives of their descendants.

(Н)и овде (н)и тамо: Етнички идентитет Срба у Мађарској на крају XX века

Author(s): Mladena Prelić / Language(s): Serbian

Žumberački uskoci - unijačenje i odnarođivanje

Author(s): Dragan Vukšić / Language(s): Croatian

Kad je reč o seobama žumberačkih uskoka, na prvi pogled se čini da o tome postoji obilje istorijskih dokumenata i da je taj deo prošlosti Žumberčana jasan. Međutim, kad se problemu priđe istraživački precizno i sa željom da čitalac dobije jasnu sliku o toku i problemima prilikom doseljavanja, dolazi se do zaključka da, ipak, nema dovoljno podataka, barem ne o trećoj i četvrtoj seobi. Zatim, autori se pozivaju uglavnom na iste izvore, ali ih različito koriste, navodeći samo ono šta oni smatraju značajnim i što žele da naglase, odnosno šta od njih očekuje »poručilac«. Posledica su značajne razlike u tumačenju da li se i kada nešto dogodilo i kako se dogodilo? Znamo da »istoriju pišu pobednici« i da su žumberački uskoci i njihovo doseljavanje vekovima bili »pod lupom« raznih pobednika i njihove politike te da su »pobednici« različito gledali na žumberačke uskoke pa i na njihovo doseljavanje. Surova istorijska stvarnost uticala je da su Žumberčani morali da vode računa ne samo o tome ko su »aktuelni« pobednici nego i ko će da pobedi u narednom periodu i kakvi će da budu ti budući pobednici.

Žítkovské bohyně: Lidová magie na Moravských Kopanicích

Author(s): Dagmar Dobšovičová Pintířová / Language(s): Czech

The work is based on authentic field researches in 1990–1992 with two last living goddesses in Žítková in the White Carpathians, the researches were originally elaborated as the diploma thesis. Other field collections of 1995–1996 are dedicated to the goddess I. Gabrhelová. The last field researches of 2013–2014 monitor diaries of the eyewitnesses, for which such topic is close especially in relation to their childhood. In the theoretical part there is an analysis of individual incantations and magical practices, further an analysis of a magical ceremony with respect to application of homeopathic and contact magic. The last part of the work is devoted to logic of magical thinking and monitoring of contact points with contemporary forms of magic of recent healers.

Великий цивилизационный взрыв на рубеже XX-XXI веков

Author(s): Mykola Mykhalchenko / Language(s): Russian

In this book the essence and significance of the civilizational outbreak in Europe and Eurasia on the cusp of XX-XXI centuries is broken down, as well as its impact on the Ukraine, Russia and surrounding countries in being researched. Also given is the general-political prognosis on civilizational changes of the social development of the world and particular countries.

Антропологічний код української культури і цивілізації (у двох книгах)

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

The historical, theoretical and methodological principles of scientific knowledge of the anthropological code of Ukrainian culture and civilization, their originality and mystery, at the epicentre of which is Human as a unique and highest value, are clarified. Its essence is revealed as a set of images, means of biological and sociocultural nature, associated with a set of stereotypes of consciousness of an individual or group of people, which are expressed in archetypes, mentality, intellectual, moral and material life, political and social organization of society, its culture and civilization, the transit nature and ability to be inherited. The content and functions of the anthropological code of culture and civilization at different stages of Ukrainian history - from ancient times to the present, as a system of values and types of human thinking, psychology and mentality, ways of perceiving values, intellectual and emotional understanding of the world, culture and civilization are analysed. The core of the anthropological code of culture is Human, and the anthropological code of civilization is Society. // Various theories of the loss of the value-semantic form of human existence in the context of globalization in the modern world, the paradigm of the "Russian world", the code of the so-called "all-Russian" culture, canonical territory, civilization, common roots, genetic and cultural development of Ukrainian and Russian peoples are refuted. The publication is intended for scholars and lectures of history, philosophy, cultural studies, political science, ethnology, teachers, graduate students and students, a wide range of people interested in anthropological understanding of Ukrainian culture and civilization.

Българска възрожденска комедия

Author(s): Vanja Dobreva / Language(s): Bulgarian

In the monograph „Bulgarian Renaissance Comedy. Typology and Architectonics“ Vanya Dobreva solves a strategically important problem in the history of Bulgarian Renaissance literature: the functioning of the comedy genre in the system of ideas, forms and genre classifications of Bulgarian literature in the 19th century.