Polsko-czeskie inicjatywy na polu kultury w ostatnich trzydziestu latach w regionie Śląska Cieszyńskiego
Polish-Czech Initiatives in the Field of Culture in the Last Thirty Years in the Cieszyn Silesia Region

Summary/Abstract: Changes in the nationality of Cieszyn Silesia over the period of seventy years and its division gradually led to the disintegration of the previously homogeneous Cieszyn community. The indigenous peoples who remained in the Czechoslovak Republic after 1920 felt cut off from the Polish language and culture. In the Polish part of Cieszyn Silesia, the sense of community with the people on the other bank of the Olza River was gradually being lost. As a result, two distinct groups of Poles emerged: the indigenous people living in the so-called Zaolzie (left-bank areas of Cieszyn Silesia delimited by the Olza River) – linguistically and emotionally connected with Poland, and Cieszyn people who found themselves on the “Polish” side of the Olza, naturally joining the circle of native culture. This paper presents the way to reunify the Cieszyn community. The platform for rebuilding broken ties was and still is contacts in the field of culture.

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