Keywords: Carnival; Zagreb
In this paper, a description is given of Carnival events as they were practised in Zagreb during the period from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of World War I, that is, at a time when Zagreb (and Croatia) were part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Since daily newspapers from that time (Obzor and Novosti, and some others) have served as the basic source of the material, the Carnival events are described from their public aspect. These were entertainments and other events that were held in public city spaces, both in enclosed premises and out in the open. Zagreb Carnival events were made up of three parts. The first was a prolonged prologue that lasted from Epiphany (January 6) until Shrove Tuesday, which was crammed with numerous jocular get-togethers, held and attended by all the social strata. The second part represented the culmination of the events; it took place on Shrove Tuesday, when masked balls were organised, along with masked processions and mock street battles with the throwing of sugar-coated almonds. The symbolic conclusion on Ash Wednesday, the third part, was expressed in a twofold manner: by the physical "burial" of the Carnival Prince, who was drowned in the Sava River, and by the metaphysical farewell at the so- -called herring feasts. Further on in the text a considerably summarised comment is given on the Carnival events that took place in the wartime era (1914-1918). The result of analysis has shown that the Zagreb Carnival events during the period in question were composed partly from the broadly disseminated pattern of (Central) European urban Carnivals, while, at the same time, being rooted in the centuries of their local existence, thus being marked by local reality.
More...Keywords: Austria-Hungary;world war I; food;Slovenian soldiers;sustenance; Austro-Hungarian Empire;
The sustenance of soldiers on the battlefield had always been very important and a great challenge for the supply and support branch of the military, at the same time. Inadequate food not only left soldiers physically weak but also dispirited. The supply of food for Austro-Hungarian soldiers in World War I failed to keep up with the demand, so they were often hungry, especially during the last three years of the war. An analysis of diaries, memoires, and letters of Slovene soldiers enables an insight in their experiences and also identifies different factors that affected them.
More...Keywords: Libri & Liberi; 2012–2021; Bibliography;
Libri & Liberi 2012–2021 - A Bibliography of the First Ten Volumes Compiled by Helena Horžić
More...Keywords: List of authors; Libri & Liberi; 2012–2021;
List of authors - Libri & Liberi 2012–2021
More...Keywords: Franjo Tuđman; contemporary Croatian history; textbooks; history as school subject;
This paper analyses the way in which Dr Franjo Tuđman is depicted in the textbooks used in Croatian schools. The author concludes that while some basic biographical data are provided, with respect to his contribution as a statesman some authors are prone to politicization and even self-censorship, the intention of which is to diminish his contribution to the history of the Croatian people. Most issues concerning internal and external policies require further research.
More...Keywords: State Security Service; Yugoslavia; Socialist Republic of Croatia;
This paper discusses and links some aspects of the work of the State Security Service of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, primarily in two years - 1979 and 1980. The aim of the paper is to introduce readers to the groups and organizations considered by the SSS as hostile, than with the sources of information through which SSS gathered data regarding the actions of the „enemy elements“ and also with the various actions which SSS use to conduct against mentioned elements. The article also takes into account the activities of the SSS as the part of the Yugoslav Communist regime, presenting a broader picture of this issue.
More...Keywords: traditions; cultural heritage; customs; hagiography; folklore;
The paper deals with the annual folk customs in Dugopolje that are related to holidays and commemorations during the Christmas period. The Christmas period lasts twelve days during which the people celebrate Christmas, St. Stephen the First Martyr, St. John the Apostle, Holy Innocents’ Day, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day and the Epiphany, all of which abound in both religious and secular customs in which the pre-Christian elements can be found. Religious customs are manifested through prayers, blessed water, going to the midnight mass and masses in general, lighting the candles. Lighting and the maintenance of fire, Christmas hay, Christmas pastries and bread, Christmas lunch, blessed water, customs and processions related to the laymen, as well as the ashes of the unburned Christmas yule log have an apotropaic and panspermic character. Giving children gifts for Christmas and New Year’s Day, as well as the whipping of the children’s foot soles on the Holy Innocents’ Day are of an educational nature. The deceased family members are also honored through prayers and candle lighting. With the help of scientifi c literature, the original field records collected in the Municipality of Dugopolje in the period from 2016 to 2022 are interpreted and analyzed.
More...Keywords: antirationalism; lie; hatred; genocide; Bosniaks; nacional-cultural Great Serbian programs;
Manje više je poznato da su duhovno-kulturni nosioci, inspiratori i ideolozi političkih programa srpskog velikodržavlja: Srpska akademija nauka i umjetnosti (SANU), Udruženje književnika Srbije (UKS) i Srpska pravoslavna crkva (SPC). O utjecaju i ulozi ovih institucija, kroz raznovrsne programske sadržaje koje su izgradile, na rat protiv bosanskohercegovačkog društva i države od 1992.-1995. godine, te zločine genocida nad Bošnjacima, istina, napisan je zavidan broj radova, ali nisu do kraja, na naučno relevantan način, eksplicirani svi segmenti uloge njihovih programskih sadržaja. Također, nauka je utvrdila da su najznačajniji društveni faktori nacionalnih integracija, ne samo kod južnoslavenskih naroda, već uopće: država, kultura i crkva. Kod razvoja srpskog nacionalnog identiteta to je posebno izraženo. Na tim osnovama su i nastali nacionalno-politički, nacionalno-kulturni i nacionalno-crkveni srpski velikodržavni projekti, ne odvojeno jedan od drugog, već naprotiv, čine jedinstvenu strukturu cjeline velikosrpske nacionalne ideologije i prakse. U dosadašnjim radovima o uzrocima genocida nad Bošnjacima, akcentirani su i dosta eksplicitno analizirani utjecaji nacionalno-političkih velikosrpskih programa. Mnogo manje su naučno obrađeni genocidni sadržaji u nacionalno-kulturnim i nacionalno-crkvenim programima srpskog velikodržavlja. Iz tih razloga ovom prilikom analizirat ćemo neke primjere antiracionalizma, laži, mržnje, u nacionalno-kulturnim i nacionalno-crkvenim velikosrpskim programima i njihov utjecaj na zločin genocida nad Bošnjacima ne samo u ratu protiv bosanskohercegovačkog društva i države 1992.-1995. godine već od početka tzv. nacionalno-oslobodilačkih pokreta na južnoslavenskim prostorima.
More...Keywords: intellectual history; League of Communists of Yugoslavia; Socialist Yugoslavia; internal enemy; civil right; nationalism;
A new category – the civil right – was added to the register of internal enemies of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, which the communist regime understood to be the groups and individuals who have been considered the critical intelligentsia in post-Yugoslav interpretations. The direct reason for its introduction was the assessment that the intellectual opposition and enemies across Yugoslavia were uniting to achieve a partnership position vis-a-vis the League of Communists. The assessment was unfounded, the intellectual opposition, irrespective of how we define it (dissidents, critical intelligentsia, and the like) had very little influence or strong association. It was limited to intellectual reviews and magazines whose circulation was small and whose humble influence could be measured in numbers as several hundred interested people. The regime considered the civil right as its most dangerous opposition in the middle and second half of the 1980s due to its intellectual constitution. Such an assessment was the usual exaggeration of the system which had a habit of giving unacceptable phenomena a decidedly greater significance than was the case. The civil right should be approached as a phenomenon that can be the stimulus for research on intellectual history in the non-liberal society of the last few years of socialism. This new type of enemy greatly “benefited” nationalists, a significant number of whom were assigned into the civil right category, which subsequently meant milder treatment as accusations of nationalism were the severest qualification of the regime in the 1980s, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Serbian and Slovene nationalism benefited the most from the new category. The greater part of the civil right from the mid 1980s was already holding posts, which were undoubtedly nationalist, as early as 1989.
More...Keywords: Sarajevo; history; Bosniaks; Muslim formations in Tuzla; Hrvatska seljačka stranka; 20th century; BiH; genocide;
Reviews of: Prilozi historiji Sarajeva. Orijentalni institut, Institut za istoriju, Sarajevo, 1997, str. 531. Izlaganje održano na promociji u Narodnom pozorištu 10. januara 1998. Godine; Mustafa Imamović, Historija Bošnjaka, Bošnjačka zajednica kulture “Preporod”, Sarajevo, 1997, str. 636 ; Mladen Ančić, Putanja klatna. Ugarsko-hrvatsko kraljevstvo i Bosna u XIV. stoljeću. Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Zadru i ZIRAL (Zajednica izdanja Ranjeni labud), Zadar - Mostar, 1997., str. 308. (lat.); Adnan Jahić: Muslimanske formacije Tuzlanskog kraja u Drugom svjetskom ratu. Tuzla, 1995, DD “Zmaj od Bosne” i KDB “Preporod”, str. 133; Francine Friedman, Yugoslavia, A Comprehensive English-Language Bibliography, Compiled and Edited by Francine Friedman, Scholary Resources Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, 1993, str. 547; Zdenko Radelić, Hrvatska seljačka stranka 1941.-1950, Hrvatski institut za povijest, Biblioteka Hrvatska povjesnica, Monografije i studije, knjiga 3, Zagreb, 1996, str. 256; Genocid u Bosni i Hercegovini 1991.-1995. Zbornik radova Međunarodnog kongresa za dokumentaciju genocida u Bosni i Hercegovini 1991.-1995., održanog u Bonu od 31. avgusta do 4. septembra 1995. godine, Sarajevo, 1997, str. 814; Naučni skup: Događanja historije u sjenci balkanskih ratova (Doing History in the Shadow of the Balkan Wars), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 18. januar 1997.godine.
More...Keywords: Croatian public life; Slavko Goldstein; Cultural and social history;
Koliko vrijedi Slavko Goldstein najbolje se vidi po tome što ga Zagreb ni poslije toliko godina nije uspio zatvoriti u neku nišu, kao većinu ljudi koji dugo djeluju, pa ako se ne uklope u poredak, postanu lokalne veličine koje, kao ekscentrike, treba tolerirati zbog slikovitosti pojave što obogaćuje našu sredinu. Sve što napravi Slavko Goldstein ipak je previše važno ili previše kontroverzno da bismo ga tako olako mogli marginalizirati.
More...Keywords: antirationalism; lie; hatred; genocide; Bosniaks; nacional-cultural Great Serbian programs;
It is more or less known that the spiritual and cultural carriers, inspirers and ideologues of the political programss of the Serbian great state are: the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), the Association of Writers of Serbia (UKS) and the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC). On the influence and role of these institutions, through the various program contents they built, on the war against the Bosnian society and state in from 1992 to 1995, and the crimes of genocide against Bosniaks, it is true, an enviable number of papers have been written, but not all segments of the role of their program contents have been fully explained in a scientifically relevant way. Also, science has determined that the most important social factors of national integration, not only in South Slavic peoples, but in general are: state, culture and church. This is particularly pronounced in the development of Serbian national identity. National-political, national-cultural and national-ecclesiastical Serbian greatstate projects were created on those bases, not separately from each other, but on the contrary, they form a unique structure of the entire Great Serbian national ideology and practice. In previous works on the causes of the genocide against Bosniaks, the influences of the national-political Great Serbian programs were emphasized and quite explicitly analyzed. The genocidal content in the national-cultural and national-ecclesiastical programs of the Serbian great state has been scientifically treated much less. For these reasons, on this occasion we will analyze some examples of anti-rationalism, lies, hatred, in the national-cultural and national-ecclesiastical programs of Greater Serbia and their influence on the crime of genocide against Bosniaks, not only in the war against the Bosnian society and state from 1992 to 1995, but since the beginning of the so-called national liberation movements in South Slavic areas.
More...Keywords: Croatian reform movement; Socialist Republic of Croatia; labour migrants; Savka Dabčević-Kučar; Catholic Church; Bjelovar Community of Municipalities;
The paper presents the fundamental guidelines issued by the reform part of the Croatian state-party leadership in the early 1970s regarding the issue of the increasing number of labour migrants from the Socialist Republic of Croatia in Western Europe. In this context, an analysis of the aforementioned trend within the Communist Party of Croatia was made, which was oriented towards spreading the autonomy of the Socialist Republic of Croatia within Yugoslavia. It limited the introduction of market mechanisms in the Yugoslav economy, and abolished the patterns of operation and behaviour of state-party officials, the roots of which lied in the Yugoslav unitarism or the idea of Greater Serbia. Since the reform movement had been ended in Croatia by force, it was not even attempted to implement a part of the planned policies. Although several policies continued to be advocated, there was no genuine wish or possibility for the implementation. For the purposes of comparison, the paper illustrates – using selected documents from the second half of the 1970s and the 1980s – the relationship of the Yugoslav communist regime to labour migrants, in particular the ones from the Socialist Republic of Croatia, and the main characteristics of the return-emigrant trends in the labour migrant population on the relation Yugoslavia – Western Europe. Nevertheless, in this period, further mass exodus was halted, and even a part of labour migrants returned. This was what the reform part of the Croatian state-party leadership strived to achieve, yet the principal reason lied in the suppressing factors in Western Europe. On the other hand, however, those labour migrants, who managed to keep/get employment in Western Europe in the midst of crisis, were joined by their family members. This radically reduced their chance of return. The Yugoslav authorities claimed in public, and their officials in many closed meetings, how very dedicated they were to the return of labour migrants, although the regime suffered from major difficulties in the context of employment, even of the persons who were forced to return. During the 1960s and in the early 1970s, the Yugoslav diplomatic, consular and other officials abroad continued to maltreat, humiliate and deprive labour migrants of the Croatian nationality of the recognition of their national identity.
More...Keywords: corpus linguistics; corpus compilation; corpora and discourse analysis; digital media;
The digital era has unlocked unprecedented possibilities of compiling corpora of social discourse, which has brought corpus linguistic methods into closer interaction with other methods of discourse analysis and the humanities. Even when not using any specific techniques of corpus linguistics, drawing on some sort of corpus is increasingly resorted to for empirically–grounded social–scientific analysis (sometimes dubbed ‘corpus–assisted discourse analysis’ or ‘corpus–based critical discourse analysis’, cf. Hardt–Mautner 1995; Baker 2016). In the post–Yugoslav space, recent corpus developments have brought table–turning advantages in many areas of discourse research, along with an ongoing proliferation of corpora and tools. Still, for linguists and discourse analysts who embark on collecting specialized corpora for their own research purposes, many questions persist – partly due to the fast–changing background of these issues, but also due to the fact that there is still a gap in the corpus method, and in guidelines for corpus compilation, when applied beyond the anglophone contexts. In this paper we aim to discuss some possible solutions to these difficulties, by presenting one step–by–step account of a corpus building procedure specifically for Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian, through an example of compiling a thematic corpus from digital media sources (news articles and reader comments). Following an overview of corpus types, uses and advantages in social sciences and digital humanities, we present the corpus compilation possibilities in the South Slavic language contexts, including data scraping options, permissions and ethical issues, the factors that facilitate or complicate automated collection, and corpus annotation and processing possibilities. The study shows expanding possibilities for work with the given languages, but also some persistently grey areas where researchers need to make decisions based on research expectations. Overall, the paper aims to recapitulate our own corpus compilation experience in the wider context of South–Slavic corpus linguistics and corpus linguistic approaches in the humanities more generally.
More...Keywords: Holocaust; Jews; COVID-19; Distortion; Revisionism; Jasenovac; Staro Sajmište
The research will focus on the misuse of historical facts related to the Staro Sajmište camp in Serbia and the Jasenovac camp in Croatia from the 1980s until 2022. Analysis of legislature, proposed and passed, related to Staro Sajmište and its memorialization will be additionally researched, as well as different historical narratives about responsibility for crimes connected to Staro Sajmište. Also, memory politics and Holocaust remembrance in the cases of Serbia and Croatia, and its evolution since the end of Socialist Yugoslavia will be analysed. The central part of the research will be focused on the rise of distorted narratives regarding selected camps that will be analysed through the activities of selected historians, researchers, politicians, and public figures. Their public statements, lectures, expertise, and misuse of facts will be researched.
More...Keywords: crime fiction; CSI in translation; genre translation in Croatia;
The aim of the present study is to examine the specific features of translations of crime fiction in Croatia in the 2000s. Frederic Jameson (quoted in Rolls, Vuaille-Barcan, West-Sooby 2016) foregrounds the notion of crime fiction’s role as the new Realism due to the importance it places on historical and geographical specificity, together with the social fabric of our daily lives. As such, it is possible that an excessive emphasis on place in crime fiction may present a particular challenge in translation, not only in terms of the translation strategies chosen by translators, but also in terms of the preferred marketing strategies pursued by publishers and editors and the correspondence between them. This study focuses on the patterns of handling source-culture embeddedness, typical of this genre, in translation. It examines how diverse agents (publishers, editors and translators) involved in the production of translations of this genre interact, and how their interaction influences the decisions on handling the genre’s embeddedness in a particular sourceculture reality. As crime fiction novels are a highly popular translated genre in Croatia, they make up a substantial portion of the production of the publishing sector. For the purposes of this study, a number of crime fiction novels by several frequently translated authors have been selected (P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, and Michael Connelly), published by Croatian publishers with diverse profiles, ranging from well-established companies to those more recently set up. The data analysed includes selected textual segments, the peritext of such editions, and interviews with the agents involved (translators and editors).
More...Keywords: Bilderbuch; Croatian historical terms for picturebook; dictionary; picturebook;
The paper presents the terms for picturebook used in dictionaries of the Croatian language since the appearance of the first translation of the German term “Bilderbuch” in the middle of the nineteenth century. An attempt is made to reconstruct the path taken by the translations of the German term and the presence of each of the terms in Croatia at the time. By researching the Croatian-German dictionaries of the period, the dates of the first appearance of the term and its Croatian equivalents are established.
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