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The attack on Israelis in Bulgaria has raised a raft of questions, but not all of them have merit.
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The attack on Israelis in Bulgaria has raised a raft of questions, but not all of them have merit.
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The Hungarian prime minister speaks of the possible abandonment of democracy, but has he read the headlines recently?
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Plus, Serbia makes moves on the central bank and Slovenia could be the EU’s next bailout candidate. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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The converse of immunity, of course, is that the more of it you have, the more impunity you enjoy.
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The contribution presents the publication of a recently discovered Curriculum Vitae of Andreas Schmidt, leader of the national-socialist transylvanian-saxon "Volksgruppe" (ethnic group) in Romania. He wrote this CV as part of an application to get the admission of the Nazi SS to marry, even though he wasn't formally a member of the SS until January 1945. The fact that he voluntarly submitted this application shows how servile he was towards the SS. But the CV presents the self-image Schmidt wanted to present about himself. The contribution consists of a short introduction, a critically comented publication of the CV and one image (reproduction of the first page).
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The archive of the evangelic Honterus-congregation in Brasov (Kronstadt) was up to the 1980s an important archive that obtained many private donations. The article presents an overview over the history of the archive after the 23rd of August 1944, when the effects of the Second World War, the establishment of a communist regime in Romania and connedcted with this the expropriation of materials from the archive led to a substantial damage of the archive. Expropriated documents were not yet returned to the archive.
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The contribution presents a report about the plague epidemic that strook the region of Brasov (Kronstadt) in the years 1717/19. It is a rare example from the early 18th century of a detailed statistics of population losses. The author presents an overview of the current status of research concerning the plague in an interregional comparison. The mentioned report on the plague in Brasov is then edited in full-text, the mortality-statistics is summarised in the form of a curve chart.
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Vlad Ţepeş, also called Drăculea or Dracula, the mid-15th century prince of Wallachia, became to be known as a bloodthirsty monster to later generations. The negative image began to be proagated already by his contemporaries. Similar Stories like that of Countess Elisabeth (Erzsébet) Báthory were motives that were transmitted by writers, remained in the social memory and could be used according to requirements. Later, those ideas were joined with the reports about cases of vampirism that were especially popular in the early 18th century. It was the time when the idea of "Eastern Europe" (Osteuropa) was extended from the Byzantine / Ottoman Empire to the region that was hitherto considered to be "Northern Europe" (Nordeuropa), that means most notably Russia, the Baltic provinces and Poland. During the Enlightenment, imaginations of a "barbarian east" had also the task to reassure western European, "enlightened" societies of their values. The motive of the blood-sucking vampire was thus well-established when Bram Stoker wrote his novel "Dracula" in 1897. But his writings contributed in the same time to the image of Eastern Europa as a dark, uncivilised region. The contribution contains two images.
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The article presents the not very well known Bohemian Anton Fiala who acted in Transylvania as painter and photographer in the middle of the 19th century, as one of at least two artists who signed their works with this name in Hungary, the Banat and Transylvania. Before his arrival to Transylvania in 1847, almost nothing is known about his work. The author gives a detailed account on Fiala's, including a chronological list of the known portraits he painted. The contribution contains 23 images.
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The author publishes a document from 1511 from Bistrita (Bistritz) in northern Transylvania concerning the bookseller Martin Preuss and a dispute he had with an other bookseller, Urban Kaym from Ofen (Buda) who sold him some books in Cluj (Klausenburg, Kolozsvár), but sued him afterward for an unknown reason. This case sheds nevertheless light on the early history of books in Hungary and Transylvania. The activity of Kaym in Transylvania shows that books from Ofen (almost exclusively ritual books for the archbishopric of Gran/ Esztergom) were sold not directly to the parishes, but to local booksellers who distributed them. In the years around 1500, books became to be sold in great numer due to the price-reduction that resulted from the mechanical book-production.
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Contains contributions and debates by different scholars about controverted thesis, new directions in research and other problems. This issue contains two contributions: About some contemporary questions of transylvanian-hungarian historiography by Zsigmmond Jakó and Misconstructions about the origin of szekely and transylvanian saxons - remarks about a new publication by Gerhardt Hochstrasser
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Reviews of books relevant to transylvanian studies, including mainly scientific works referring to subjects connected with Transylvania from social sciencies and humanities. Works about the broader region of east-central and southeastern Europe are included as well.
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Summary of Vol. 28/2005, No. 1, contains as well the adresses of the authors and other useful information
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Interview with Gyula Illyés by Oszkár Zsadányi
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Szinte elkerülhetetlen, hogy zsidók a műveikben reflektáljanak a zsidó mivoltukra, és szinte mindegy, hogy mit mondanak a maguk zsidóságáról, ebből a szempontból a lényeg az, hogy nem tudnak róla nem gondolkozni.
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