Publisher: CEEOLPRESS

Aus dem inneren Leben der Zigeuner

Author(s): Heinrich Adalbert von Wlislocki / Language(s): German / Publication Year: 2016

Heinrich Adalbert von Wlislocki (1856-1907) has been a Transylvanian researcher in language and cultural anthropology. He specialized in „Tsiganology“, and conducted intensive literary collections as well as field-studies among Transylvanian Gypsies. He became member of a Gypsy-Clan and got married to a Gypsy woman. Volume I (1889) of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society wrote about him as „the scholar probably having best insight in life and language of the Gyspies” (Charles Godfrey Leland).In this book the author describes various key aspects of “Tsiganology” such as healthcare traditions, religious narratives, mythological traditions and tales, utilities for peregrinating groups…The book is completed by the highly exceptional biography of a Gypsy woman of origin in South Serbia and ending via Greece, Albania, Italy, finally in the Paris milieu of avant-gardist artists.

Jugoslawiens Entstehung

Author(s): Dušan A. Lončarević / Language(s): German / Publication Year: 2020

In the present work we learn - mainly from the Yugoslav point of view - the domestic and foreign policy struggles of Serbia from 1903 to 1914. Table of Contents: Inhalt der vorstehenden Kapitel 5 Vorwort . 21 Einleitung . 23 Wien - Belgrad . 28 Ein verhängnisvoller Irrtum . 41 Verschwörerfrage und Diplomatenstreik 49 Serbiens Kampf um seine wirtschaftliche Unabhängigkeit 77 Die Zerstörung der internationalen Rechtssicherheit in Europa 182 Die nationale Einigung der südlichen Slaven 296 Der Balkan den Balkanvölkern . 396 Ein katastrophaler Erfolg. . 484 Schlußbetrachtung. 603 Literaturverzeichnis. 628 Abbildungsverzeichnis . 631

Licht um Mitternacht.Fünf Jahre in der Welt der Verfemten

Author(s): Erica Wallach / Language(s): English,German / Publication Year: 2020

In this autobiographical book, Erica Wallach gives us a deep and personal insight into the experience of her five-year imprisonment. She was suspected of espionage and was sent to prisons in 1950 in the GDR and the Soviet Union as well as to the Workuta Soviet labor camp. Her husband, Robert R. Wallach, a soldier in the U.S. Army, and the their two children, waited in vain for her return to Paris, the Wallach family's place of residence at that time. They had no information about the reasons for her sudden disappearance and about Erica's whereabouts. The author describes the methods of totalitarian systems that are used to break prisoners in solitary confinement in order to obtain the desired confession from them. And she tells how she still managed to survive those years. This new, expanded edition has a German-English bilingual epilogue, written by Erica Wallach in the late 1970s and appearing here for the first time.

Erica Wallach gewährt uns in diesem autobiographischen Bericht einen tiefen und persönlichen Einblick in ihr Erleben jener fünf Jahre Inhaftierung, die Sie, der Spionage verdächtigt, ihrer Familie entrissen in Gefängnissen der DDR und der Sowjetunion sowie im sowjetischen Arbeitslager Workuta verbringen mußte, weil sie ihren Pflegeeltern Noel und Herta Field, die im damaligen Ostblock in Schwierigkeiten geraten waren, im August 1950 zur Hilfe eilen wollte und sich zu diesem Zweck nach Ost-Berlin begeben hatte. Ihr Ehemann, Robert R. Wallach, ein GI der U.S. Army, und die beiden gemeinsamen Kinder, warteten vergebens auf ihre Rückkehr nach Paris, dem Wohnort der Familie Wallach zu jener Zeit. Sie hatten keine Informationen über die Gründe des plötzlichen Verschwindens und erhielten keine Auskunft über den Aufenthaltsort von Erica Wallach. Die Autorin schildert jene Methoden totalitärer Systeme, mit deren Hilfe Gefangene in der Isolationshaft gebrochen werden, um von ihnen das gewünschte Geständnis zu erhalten. Und sie erzählt darüber wie es ihr trotzdem gelungen ist, jene Jahre zu überstehen.

Memories of Terror

Essays on Recent Histories

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2021

This volume, focusing on the recovery of some forgotten facts about a very painful period of our history, addresses major concerns and problems. Stories dealing with life of surviving Jews after Holocaust are as important as the stories of the Holocaust itself. These are the stories of surviving Jews after the Holocaust, living memories of fear and strength, personal and interior battles, (in)tolerance and finding a place in a new world, but also acceptance of the pain of joy and hope for a better future.

Recipes for a New Beginning

Transylvanian Jewish Stories of Life, Hunger, and Hope

Author(s): Kinga Júlia Király / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2020

Having realized that, with the exception of cholent and flódni (a Jewish multilayered poppy-seed pastry), she knew nothing about Transylvanian Jewish cuisine, Kinga Júlia Király set out on a three-year project to fulfill her own cravings for authentic flavors—but, more profoundly, to learn about prewar recipes and customs and to find out what remained of kosher households in Northern Transylvania. She conducted some three hundred hours of participant-observer interviews, sometimes spiced with cooking sessions, with ten survivors who had experienced the Holocaust as teenagers or children. At the heart of Kinga Júlia Király’s work are the simplest things, the minutiae of everyday life. Tiny details, which, in the recording, are transformed into something of huge significance. She created handholds of remembrance for the last surviving members of a minority.