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My Life’s Histories

Életem történetei

Author(s): Meir Ábrahám Munk / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: 19th century in Hungary;

“Szipuréj korot hájáj“ - the autobiography of Meir Ávrahám Munk (Munk Adolf) ) (1830-1907) provides a rare insight into the Jewish life of the 19th century in Hungary. From the original Hebrew language translated by Simon Ardai and Miksa Fábián, Nagykanizsa, 1942 Preface and epilogue by Michael K. Silberis A unique document in the history of Hungarian Jewry. Few book-length autobiographies or memoirs written by Jews in nineteenth-century Hungary have come down to us, and Munk’s composition is additionally the only extant example of the genre to have been written in Hebrew.

Illusion and Realism. The Game with Spectator in Dutch Art in the Years 1580-1660

Iluzja a realizm. Gra z widzem w sztuce holenderskiej 1580-1660

Author(s): Antoni Ziemba / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: illusion; realism; painting; 17th century; Dutch art; history of art; history of painting; Netherlands.

The work constitutes the panoramic study of the 17th century Dutch art taking into regard the greatest artists of this period: Hendrick Goltzius, Hendrick Vroom, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer. The author presents an integral relationship between the game of illusion and the realistic representation. The conception of picture open to spectator constitutes the interpretation’s key in author’s studies. This conception refers directly to recipient and involves him to the space and content of performance.

The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 24. Labour Camps

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 24. Obozy pracy przymusowej

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Bełżec; Chełm; Włodawa; Kampinos; Wilga; Łowicz; Drewnica; labour camps; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

This volume illustrates the working and living conditions of the Jewish forced labourers in the labour camps. The testimonies refer mainly to the years 1940–1942 and to the places where Warsaw Jews worked: Bełżec, Chełm–Włodawa, Kampinos, Wilga, Łowicz and Drewnica. Part one of the volume features documents about the early stages of staying in the camps (roundups, medical examination before deportation to the camps, etc.) or general issues, while part two contains descriptions of individual camps. The testimonies are completed by some official German and Jewish documents.

Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin. Volumen 2 (1838-1839), part 2

Korespondencja Fryderyka Chopina 1838-1839. Tom 2, część 2

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Fryderyk Chopin; music; correspondence; Romanticism; culture of the 19th century

The second volume of correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin, richly illustrated with autographs of letters, including indexes, miscellanea, bibliography and biographical notes of the people related to the artist. It includes the correspondence from the composer’s youth and the time spent abroad after the fall of the November Uprising, until Chopin’s arrival in Paris in the early autumn of 1831, as well as his first regular summer stays in George Sand’s house in Nohant.

Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin. Volumen 2 (1831-1838), part 1

Korespondencja Fryderyka Chopina 1831-1838. Tom 2, część 1

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Fryderyk Chopin; music; correspondence; Romanticism; culture of the 19th century

The second volume of correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin, richly illustrated with autographs of letters, including indexes, miscellanea, bibliography and biographical notes of the people related to the artist. It includes the correspondence from the composer’s youth and the time spent abroad after the fall of the November Uprising, until Chopin’s arrival in Paris in the early autumn of 1831, as well as his first regular summer stays in George Sand’s house in Nohant.

EUROPE FROM DAY TO DAY. VOL 08, The European War (February – November 1915)

L'EUROPE AU JOUR LE JOUR. VOL 08, La Guerre Européenne (Février – Novembre 1915)

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

The 14 volumes of Auguste Gauvain represent an <strong>11 Years Political Diary</strong> of the very origins of Modern Europe as it evolved in early 20th century from a multitude of disintegrations (OTTOMAN EMPIRE…), competitions between colonialist powers (BERLIN-BAGDAD….), diplomatic pinpricks (AFFAIRE AGADIR….), side-theatres of war (BALKAN WARS 1912/13…) and, finally, the unique and global catastrophe of WorldWar I.<br>The idea of Modern Europe originated simultaneously from the efforts of thousands of individual politicians, diplomats, intellectuals to find applicable ways to prevent those European « Bloodlands » (<i>Timothy D. Snyder</i> ) during their own age as well as and for the future of Europe.<br>In 1908, when Austria-Hungary implemented the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the French journalist and Foreign-Policy expert Auguste Gauvain considered this decision of the Habsburg Empire as the beginning of a process which, more or less unavoidably, would result in a European War. Hence, he began writing a daily column on the “Event of the Day” in European politics for the French journal « Les Debats ». With few and short interruptions during WW I he did so on each day until the end of the Versailles Peace negotiations in 1919. In early 1920s he published the full collection of all these columns in 14 volumes with the title <strong>« L’Europe au Jour le Jour ».</strong><br>CEEOL has decided to re-publish all these 14 volumes and nearly 10.000 pages as a contemporary key document for understanding the very origins of Modern Europe, the historical progress it represents and the historical necessities and forces which triggered its development. Even its supra-national institution-building after WW II cannot be really understood without this historical background of a few decades before. <br><br><strong>FOR DETAILS REGARDING THIS VOLUME PLEASE DOWNLOAD PDFs FROM THE «Contents»-TAB HERE ↓↓ BELOW</strong>

Music-Literary Dictionary. Musical Works Inspired by Literary Art. Twentieth Century Composers. The Third Part of a Dictionary Trilogy

Hudebně-literární slovník. Hudební díla inspirovaná slovesným uměním. Skladatelé 20. století. III. díl slovníkové trilogie

Author(s): Vladimír Spousta / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Musical-literary dictionary; Musical works; Verbal art; 20th century composers; artificial music; non-artificial music; tonal music; atonal music; electro-acoustic music; jazz; literary art; folk literature;

The third part of a Musical-Literary Dictionary builds on the first two parts of the Dictionary dealing with international and Czech composers which were published by the Masaryk University Press in 2011. The third part of the Dictionary concludes a monumental dictionary trilogy. This work deals with literary production of the 20th century composers and registers only their musicial compositions which are linked to literary (exceptionally also visual) art. The link could have a form of unspecified literary, visual or musical inspiration. In the most cases the connectionis about a common idea, theme, content or text of a literary work. The Dictionary designed this way brings a new and original point of view to the 20th century artificial and non-artificial musical production in a worldwide context into Czech and world musicial and literary lexicography. The book includes 4,205 musicial works of 533 Czech and international composers living from 1930 to the present and, on the other hand, it includes also 1,995 literary authors whose literary works have inspired the birth of musicial works. Furthermore the Dictionary pays attention to folk literature and its display in musicial production and also to musical works through which their authors have paid tribute to important artists of the past.

History of the Ottoman Empire

Histoire de l'Empire Ottoman

Author(s): Théophile Lavallée / Language(s): French

Keywords: Ottoman Empire;

The events taking place in the East today (1855!) are the continuation and the consequence of the revolutions which have agitated this part of the world for several centuries. To fully understand the facts which are being accomplished before our eyes, to fully appreciate the mission and the rights of France in the current war, to even prejudge the outcome and the results, as well as the influence that it must have on the destinies of Europe, one must know, not in its details, which are of little interest to the peoples of the West, but in its broad features, its general results, its most important revolutions, the history of formation, of the greatness of the decline of the Ottoman Empire; you need to have a clear idea of the institutions, customs, races, peoples, religions of this empire, made up of so many different elements; even the geography of these poorly known countries must be unraveled. Finally, France has not ceased, since ancient times, even before the Crusades, to have relations, interests and sympathies with the East; at times she played a leading role; it has exercised, at all times, a beneficent and civilizing influence: one must know this history of the relations of France with the Ottoman Empire, a history almost entirely ignored, full of lessons and glorious memories, and which gives, by national tradition, the key to current events. // Such is the object of this book, which is, not the learned, detailed history of the Ottoman Empire, with the tedious account of its palace revolutions and its provincial rebellions, but the succinct account of events Europeans of this history, this history reduced to the facts which interest a French reader, finally, if one can express it thus, a view of the Ottoman Empire taken from France.

The Power of Subjugated

Siła podporządkowanych

Author(s): Michał Rauszer / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: rebellion; cultural resistance; peasants; serfdom

The books is an anthropological analysis of peasant rebellions in the times of serfdom between the 16th and 19th centuries. The author discusses the manifestations of serf rebellions, using the so called history from below research, subaltern studies and the idea of “subjugated arms”.

Moscow

Moskau

Author(s): Schalom Asch / Language(s): German

Keywords: Jewish culture;Russia;Russian revolution of 1917;history

A great panorama of the years leading up to the Russian Revolution. The novel focuses on St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Moscow, and how various people deal with these earth shaking events. They range from powerful millionaires to penniless intellectuals. They are revolutionaries, capitalists, landowners, teachers, students, society women, fighters and political leaders. Moskau is the third volume of the trilogy.

Europe’s Leaders

Europas Führer

Author(s): Emil Ludwig / Language(s): German

Keywords: Fridtjof Nansen; Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk; Aristide Briand; Walther Rathenau; Giuseppe Motta; Eleftherios Venizelos; Lloyd George; Benito Mussolini; Josef Stalin;

This volume is comprising biographies of Fridtjof Nansen, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Aristide Briand, Walther Rathenau, Giuseppe Motta, Eleftherios Venizelos, Lloyd George, Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin. // Emil Ludwig (originally named Emil Cohn) was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Born into a Jewish family, he was raised as a non-Jew but was not baptized. “Many persons have become Jews since Hitler," he said. "I have been a Jew since the murder of Walther Rathenau [in 1922], from which date I have emphasized that I am a Jew.“ Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novellas, also working as a journalist. In 1906, he moved to Switzerland, but, during World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul. He became a Swiss citizen in 1932, later emigrating to the United States in 1940. // During the 1920s, he achieved international fame for his popular biographies which combined historical fact and fiction with psychological analysis. After his biography of Goethe was published in 1920, he wrote several similar biographies, including one about Bismarck (1922–24) and another about Jesus (1928). As Ludwig's biographies were popular outside of Germany and were widely translated, he was one of the fortunate émigrés who had an income while living in the United States. His writings were considered particularly dangerous by Goebbels, who mentioned him in his journal. (Wikipedia)

(Margin) Practices in translation criticism

Pratiques (en marge) de la critique des traductions

Author(s): Muguraş Constantinescu / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: literary criticism;translation criticism;translation evaluation;translation practice;translation theory;translation analysis;

Translation criticism, the equivalent of literary criticism in the history and theory of translation, though convincingly put forward by Antoine Berman as a discipline in its own right, has not yet acquired a real existence in the practice of literary journals or magazines. Reflections on translation have offered some landmarks, illustrations, even directions, but they have never got very far. In exchange, we can find all around and along the borderland of this not yet fully-fledged discipline, a series of forms and practices of analysis and evaluation of the translated text as contrasted to the original and the other versions, like commentary or chronicle, which pave the way for its development. By means of exegeses or studies, which have originally been doctoral theses, translation criticism is thoroughly taken into account. In the present article, the author aims at analyzing several practices on the fringes of translation criticism in the Romanian (French-speaking) literary and academic world, in order to enlighten this important and (de)valorizing phenomenon for both translation and the translator.

КОНТИНЕНТ / CONTINENT East-West-Forum – Issue 1976 / Special Issue «Prague»

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1976 / Sonderband «Prag»

Author(s): Vratislav Blažek,Vaclav Černý,Alexander Dubček,Ladislav Dvořák,Jiří Gruša,Josef Frais,Jiří Hájek,Václav Havel,Bohumil Hrabal,Ivan Kadlečík,Karel Kaplan,Mojmír Klánský,Ivan Klíma,Alexander Kliment,Zdeněk Rotrekl,Jaroslav Seifert,Karel Sidon,Karel Šiktanc,Julius Tomin,Jan Trefulka,Ludvík Vaculík / Language(s): German

Ota Filip & Pavel Tigrid — Unwilling Dissidents. First Part: Little stories from a world in which the Caretakers rule // Jan Trefulka — Report on Everyday Life // Alexander Kliment — Intellectuals // Ivan Kadlečík — Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac became the father of Jacob // Alexander Dubček — The Socialist State and Human Rights // Ivan Klíma — The misery of language // Václav Havel — The whole family sings with // Jiří Hájek — A request to the Prime Minister // Ludvík Vaculík — Good news — Bad news // Ludvík Vaculík — Sunspots // Karel Kaplan — Another letter to the lord of the castle // Ludvík Vaculík — A million dollar experiment // Karel Sidon — A sad privilege // Anonymous — The hidden death // Alexander Dubček — Farewell to Josef Smrkovský // Anonymous — An annoying confession // Jan Teren — Schwejk today // Vratislav Blažek — A crucial historical moment? // Anonymous — Pop in the Prague underground // Ivan Klíma — The end of civilization // Julius Tomin — As a philosopher at the steam boiler // Jan Milota — Three kinds of Czechs or: Letter to ourselves // Karel Šiktanc — Bohemian clock tower // Jaroslav Seifert — The Plague Column // Mojmír Klánský — The Exile // Jiří Gruša — Ladies Gambit // Ladislav Dvořák — Chronos and Kairos // Josef Frais — Finish // Jan Trefulka — The Great Construction Project // Ivan Kadlečík — An unpublished review of one unpublished novel // Bohumil Hrabal — The gentle barbarian. In memoriam Vladimir Boudnik // Václav Černý — The great Bafler. The work of Bohumil Hrabal // Bohumil Hrabal — I served the King of England // Zdeněk Rotrekl — Apocrypha // Antonín Brousek — authors of the volume

Selected Texts

Odabrani tekstovi

Author(s): Nena Dimitrijević,Braco Dimitrijević,Branko Franceschi / Language(s): Croatian

Keywords: art; conceptual art; Zagreb conceptual art; art critique; art theory; art philosophy; modern art; contemporary art; abstract art;

The Selected Texts include critiques, essays, and interviews that the art historian Nena Dimitrijević and the artist Braco Dimitrijević have published both in Croatia and foreign countries during their prolific period that has lasted more than forty years. The significance of this book surpasses the effort needed to collect, and translate this bulk of material. Having in mind that the authors’ carriers, whose success is almost a precendent in the Balkans, have been built upon the international art scene, the Croatian readers have not been familiar with most of their textst published in foreign countries. This book will be very useful for those who shape the reality and future of the domestic art context today. It offers testimonies by the creators and participants of the most significant art phenomena from the second half of the 20th century. It also presents a critical and creative model, and criteria for actively influencing the found structure of a cultural system, which the authors of the book have applied in their performance. In the end, the book offers retrospectively a method for the objective viewing and verification of the highly esteemed conceptual art period, especially the art of the Zagreb circle, with both of them being its valued protagonists. Nena and Braco Dimitrijević are an unusually well-balanced creative couple. Nena Dimitrijević’s curating and critical work is renowned because she has consistently promoted, in print, digital media and exhibitions, the radical strategies of the artists of her generation. She has conceptually and linguistically modernised the media of visual arts critique, and the exhibition practice. Braco Dimitrijević has established himself as one of the leading innovators on the contemporary global art scene with his famous artistic actions and projects that reflect his radical attitudes on the fundamental questions about the art creation and its position in society, that is, the relation of an individual and the political power, or an artist and cultural system. Braco Dimitrijević created his status also by his essential separation from the dominating theoretical, historical, cultural and civilisational models. Nena and Braco’s works overlap in their stance that the sense of the artwork is its cognitive and ethical dimensions, which, articulated into an aesthetic form, operate beneficially and constructively inside the artistic, and wider social discourses. Artists, critics, curators, institutions, and collectors have their distinctive roles in their respective missions. Although the Dimitrijevićs are often percieved as a pair of creative people who are directed toward each other, their separate careers, that of a successful artist, and a successful critic, show the development of the same theoretical standpoint in different areas of work.

To know that you are still alive. Children from Chechnya tell stories

Zu wissen, dass du noch lebst. Kinder aus Tschetschenien erzählen

Author(s): Klaus Bednarz / Language(s): German

Keywords: Chechnya-wars;

Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft Memorial und der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Edited by Foundations «Memorial» and «Heinrich Boell». Published in AUFBAU-VERLAG, Berlin 2006 Russian schoolchildren, like the vast majority of Russian society, know almost nothing about the history of Chechnya. And when a 15-year-old Russian schoolgirl asks the question, "I just want to understand why do we hate each other so much?" At the beginning of her reflections on Russians and Chechens, it may sound perplexed at first glance. But in truth it springs from the same spirit from which Heinrich Böll and Lew Kopelew once asked: "Why did we shoot each other?" Böll and Kopelew were finally able to state that there is no longer any hatred between Russians and Germans. To be able to say something similar about Russians and Chechens will probably remain a utopia for a long time to come. The statements gathered in this book by Chechen and Russian schoolchildren about war and peace between their peoples are a shocking document of contemporary history. But with overcoming speechlessness as the first step towards understanding, it creates hope at the same time. Maybe this generation has a better future after all.

She Still Speaks in Polish, but Laughs in Hebrew

Ona jeszcze mówi po polsku, ale śmieje się po hebrajsku

Author(s): Elżbieta Kossewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Polish Jews; Israel; history of Israel; Polish press in Israel; Poles in Israel

The book is an innovative study of the political history of Polish Jews in Israel, their cultural and intellectual heritage. It shows the process of adaptation of Polish Jews in Israeli society, transformation of their attitudes and views (in particular those of former communists) against the background of the Israeli political system, and their functioning in a clientelist network of party dependencies. It also presents biographies of journalists and authors of Jewish origin who left for Israel after World War II.

Culture in school and community education of youth through art. Educational experiences from the past, the reality of the present, the perspective of the future

Kultura w szkolnej i środowiskowej edukacji młodzieży poprzez sztukę. Edukacyjne doświadczenia z przeszłości, realia teraźniejszości, perspektywa przyszłości

Author(s): Teresa Wilk / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: culture; art; education; school; the youth

The book shows the needs and opportunities of presenting culture and art in the upbringing and educational system, which may contribute both to acquiring knowledge in this area, as well as shaping the expected attitudes, behaviors and constructing the desired social relations in an increasingly diversified multicultural space which is marked by negative phenomena. The art in this book is presented both as a peculiar beauty of individual works of art, but also as good, value and multiple educational and social functions revealing educational and practical solutions in a classroom and post-school environment.

The Bohemian Serfdom in Legal Documents (1648-1742)

Die böhmische Leibeigenschaft in Rechtsdokumenten (1648-1742)

Author(s): Ivo Cerman,Michal Morawetz / Language(s): German

Keywords: serfdom; Bohemia; Moravia; Silesia; Czechia; legal history; litigation; natural law; peasants

After the Thirty Years’ War the peasants in Bohemia found themselves living in a harder version of subject status (Untertänigkeit) which was known as ‘Bohemian serfdom’ (böhmische Leibeigenschaft). The present edition of German and Czech legal documents reconstructs the formative phase of this legal institution up to the Franco-Bavarian occupation of the Bohemian lands, when Maria Theresia was compelled to discuss the abolition of subject status and serfdom. It was during this debate that ministers in Vienna commissioned a legal opinion entitled Deductio ratione servitutis bohemicae et moravicae which describes the legal competencies and disabilities of serfs in full. In so doing this document, which is edited here, closes the formative phase of Bohemian serfdom. The edition, which is inspired by US works on slavery, includes also documents on the the status of newly born kids. It also focuses on natural law arguments.

Hieronymus Schlick the Elder: the Journal

Hieronymus der Ältere Schlick: das Tagebuch

Author(s): Rostislav Smíšek,Miroslava Durajová / Language(s): German

Keywords: reformation; Bohemia; Lutheran denomination; aristocracy; Jáchymov; Joachmisthal

The edition presents the voluminous journal of Hieronymus Schlick the Elder (1556/57-1612) who was one of the leaders of the Lutheran denomination in Habsburg Bohemia. Schlick sought to protect his rich silver mines in Joachmisthal/Jáchymov against Ferdinand I. He was punished for his support for the rebels in 1547. The journal covers the years between 1580 and 1582. It is written in German. The editor provides a comprehsnsive introductory essay on Schlick´s life and an analysis of his German language style. All comments are written in German. The e-book does not include pictures.

Italiano vero. Italian Vocabulary in the 21st-century Polish Language

Italiano vero. Leksyka włoska w polszczyźnie XXI wieku

Author(s): Łukasz Jan Berezowski,Joanna Ciesielka / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: italianisms; contact linguistics; language contact; Italian borrowings; Italian loanwords; Italian culturemes; pseudoitalianisms

This volume deals with the influence of Italian lexical elements upon Polish, especially upon the units used in Polish written sources. Of particular interest here are the latest Italian borrowings (Italianisms, culturemes, pseudoitalianisms, hybrid forms) – dating back to the 20th and the 21st century, both lexical and semantic. The aim of the present book is, therefore, to explore the scale of this impact upon Polish on the basis of a corpus compiled and organized in the form of a lexicon comprising over 2,500 entries with definitions and examples from works including fiction, non-fiction, specialized literature, newspapers and magazines as well as Internet sources and electronic media. The work is complemented by specific numerical and content data sets documenting conducted research as well as by extensive visual material.