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Review of: Lutz Vogel - "Die Grafschaft Glatz. Neue Studien zu Geschichte und Literatur. Hrsg. von Jan Pacholski und Matthias Weber. (Schlesische Grenzgänger, Bd. 9.) Leipziger Universitätsverlag. Leipzig 2018. 234 S. ISBN 978-3-96023-173-8. (€ 32,–.)
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The article contains a historical and literary analysis of the novel The last monk in Orłowa which was written by the Cieszyn clergyman – Dominik Ściskała (1887–1945) and published in Cieszyn by the publishing house of Blessed Jan Sarkander in 1924. The author was engaged in the dispute over the Polish-Czech border in 1919–1920 on behalf of the Union of Silesian Catholics. After losing the fight for the Zaolzie lands he created a historical novel ‘to encourage hearts’ for contemporary compatriots from the Olza River. This article is an attempt to read the novel as a regional “Cieszyn Deluge”. For this purpose, the author presents not only relationships with Sienkiewicz’s work, but also similarities and differences in: the creation of the represented world, the narrative, the construction of time, the use of historical material, and the construction of a real and fictional plan. She also discovers the historiosophical thought which is contained in the novel. She shows the Reformation as an evil that caused a breakdown of unity in faith in the past, and t he division of the native land in the present day. The author also indicates what the thought to give “encouragement to compatriots” is based on, despite the tragic finale of the novel. The analysis and interpretation of the novel by Fr. Ściskała is the first historical and literary attempt of this kind because no one has ever dealt with it before.
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The aim of this essay was to present the catalogue of priors of the Dominican Monastery in Oświęcim. The subject of analysis was the oldest preserved catalogue of priors, kept in the collections of Dominican archive in Cracow – this particular catalogue was set down at the beginning of the 17th century. The other most important sources concerning the history of the Oświęcim Dominicans were also discussed, works that can be found in archives in Cracow, Wrocław, Lviv and Rome. Among the Oświęcim priors, one can find Father Mikołaj Ursinus, who was behind the plan to divide the Polish province into two. One can also find royal confessors, preachers at Wawel Cathedral, and figures who likewise served as prior of Cracow’s Dominican monastery. One of the priors was Father Leonard Niezabitowski, who, according to Dominican tradition, translated the Bible into Polish.
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Les princes roumains Dimitrie et Nicolae GHIKA, père et fils ont entrepris une prestigieuse expédition en Afrique, à partir du mois d’octobre 1895, pendant cinq mois. Le livre Cinq mois au Pays des Somalis, écrit en français par Nicolae Ghika, est parru à Genève en 1897. Ce livre magnifique a été traduit en roumain et a été publié à l’édition Mega de Cluj, en 2015. La traduction du livre nous permet d’apprécier une fois de plus les réelles compétences des explorateurs roumains, leurs aptitudes, le courage et le vrai talent d’écrivain de Nicolae Ghika
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Cercetarea comemorărilor lui 1 Decembrie în Clujul postrevoluționar este realizată pe două paliere: unul etnologic, folosind metoda anchetei participative, și un al doilea istoric, constând în analiza discursului presei și a celui istoriografic. Cu alte cuvinte, într-o primă parte studiul trece în revistă modul cum după 1989 a fost comemorat 1 Decembrie la Cluj-Napoca, face un istoric al evoluției sărbătorilor comemorative, iar într-o parte secundă se reconstituie destinul semnificației Unirii în perioada 1948-1989. În intervalul 1948-1968 nu există comemorări oficiale ale evenimentelor din 1918, iar discursul istoriografic recuperează timid după 1960 o semnificație națională a evenimentelor de la 1 Decembrie. Comemorarea explodează fastuos în 1968 cu ocazia semicentenarului și va căpăta tot mai multă importanță, direct proporțional cu poziția tot mai independentă a regimului Ceaușescu față de URSS. Comemorarea este un eveniment simbolic direct subordonat discursului politic. Dar și discursul istoriografic este supus celui politic; anul 1968 reprezintă și relansarea temei Marii Uniri în istoriografia română, temă care de acum și până în 1989 are un destin asigurat. De fapt, destinul postrevoluționar al lui 1 Decembrie nu poate fi nici măcar imaginat în absența recuperării sale în ultimele trei decenii ale perioadei comuniste. Din acest punct de vedere avem de-a face cu o continuitate.
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The paper deals with a new reading of a lapidary inscription attributed to the Theodore, concerning construction of the Liparitisubani church. Significant correction has been introduced into the text.Until this day, Georgian historiography (A. Bakradze, E. Kochlamazashvili, Z. Skhirtladze, G.Otkhmezuri) considered the reading of the above text introduced by Ekvtime Takaishvili acceptable.According to this reading, the church of Liparitisubani was built in XIIth century by Theodore, the“Iodosisdze” of the Qeen Tamar (1184-1210) and, her husband David. According to one part of Scientists(G. Otkhmezuri) founder of church was Theodore Iodomisdze. Our study has shown that the inscription must be read in a different way: The church of Liparitisubani was built in 1189-1207 by Theodore Ghodomisdze.
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The study highlights the main moments attesting the Romanians’ struggle for national emancipation in the northwest of the country, Satu Mare and surroundings, by mentioning those historical documents that attest to this struggle, starting with the revolutionary year 1848, continuing with the efforts to establish in 1859 the first Romanian language school in the city and then the Astra Division, the Memorandum movement on the Satu Mare fields, the protest against adherence to the Episcopate of Hajdúdorog, the participation of the Romanian delegates on 1 December 1918 in Alba Iulia and the bloody events that followed in the coming months in this corner of the country.
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The study includes the process of unauthorized excavations of Montagu Brownlow Parker, son of the Count of Morley, in search of treasure in Solomon's Temple, which is thought to be under the Temple Mount, which has been recorded in the literature as the Parker Mission. When Parker and his entourage reached Jerusalem, serious chaos ensued, because there were no archaeologists on the team, and this was the most important issue in the discussions. Parker's activities in Istanbul have began to be followed with suspicion. After a while, Jerusalem Deputies Sa'd-El-Huseyni and Ruhi El-Halidî Beys submitted a parliamentary question to the Internal Affairs Ministry to confirm the information they obtained from Parker's activities in Jerusalem. In the parliamentary question, it was asked that there were rumors about the abduction of the ancient artifacts found in the legal and illegal excavations in the Sahara-yı Musharrefe / Kubbetu-Sahara region in Masjid-i Aqsa and whether any action was taken on this issue, and whether any work was carried out to retrieve these artifacts. After intense discussions in the parliament, it was decided to establish an investigation commission on this issue. However, the outbreak of the First World War and the developments that followed have prevented this commission from doing its work properly.
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In this study, the industrial activities of Isparta province between 1923 and 1980 and the contributions of these activities to Isparta economy have been investigated. In Isparta, the sectors of rose farming, rose oil manufacturing and carpet weaving have directed the city’s economy. Besides these, small handicrafts made with old methods in Isparta,which are weaving, leatherwork, shoe-making, coppersmithing, rope making and blacksmithing, continued to exist but their impact on the economy decreased with industrialization. Thanks to the economic policies implemented in Turkey during the republican era, important factories were founded between the years 1923 and 1980. Especially in the early 1970s, different industrial sectors developed, cement, feed, forest products processing, biscuit, fruit juice and garment factories have been opened and thanks to these, the number of products that Isparta exports and the level of gross provincial income due to industry increased. These factories, which hold a significant place in Isparta industry,made contributions to both city economy and that of the country. Thanks to the economic policies implemented in Turkey during the Republican era, industrialization increased and by 1978; the share of Isparta industry in the gross provincial product increased to 15.1%, and with this rate, Isparta industry became the second largest contributor to the city’s economy after the agricultural sector’s share of 25.1%.
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Instaurarea regimului comunist în România a consacrat nu doar schimbări de natură politică, economică sau socială, ci și o rescriere - specifică ideologiei totalitare - a istoriei și tradițiilor românești. Episodul de istorie contemporană aflat în atenția noastră este legat de un moment aparent de nediscutat în istoriografia românească, acela al declarării și proclamării oficiale a „Zilei Independenței” statului român. Am încercat să explicăm contextul în care consacrata dată a celebrării independenței de stat, 10 mai, simbolic legată de instituția monarhiei, a fost schimbată cu o zi mai devreme, în 9 mai, pentru a repoziționa simbolistica zilei naționale, implicit pentru a modifica elementele structurale ale istoriei naționale în sensul de a o metamorfoza în conformitate cu exigențele ideologiei comuniste. Nu doar distrugerea vestigiilor trecutului se afla în atenția noilor autorități, ci și construcția unei noi culturi politice, socialiste, în care instituțiile și valorile istorice, consacrate, trebuiau reconfigurate și prezentate de așa natură încât să susțină nevoile noului regim politic. Un atare proces s-a și petrecut în primele zile ale lunii mai a anului 1948, atunci când în urma unei ample campanii de presă, a unor manifestări publice organizate ceremonial de către Partidul Muncitoresc Român, dar și prin intermediul unui decret al Consiliului de Miniștri, adoptat la 8 mai 1948, ziua celebrării independenței de stat a devenit cea de 9 mai.
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The most eff ective way to get to know a nation is to get an insight into its culture, and to observe and interpret its features.This also applies to an exotic minority from Orient such as the Armenian nation. In my research, I examine the press-appearanceof Armenian culture in the light of Armenia, the most prominent Hungarian-Armenian periodical of the 19th century. The partof my sample is the fi rst two years of the magazine’s: the publications from 1887 and 1888. The resulting database wasanalyzed by quantitative and qualitative content analysis. My preliminary assumption is that Armenia in the 19th centurywas a mediator and distributor of Armenian culture of the 19th century, and this has been proven. As well as my hypothesis,that this magazine was a product which served as the intellectual coordinator of the Hungarian-Armenians and mostly of theTransylvanian Armenians.
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Bálint Sándor népi vallásosságkutató emlékére
In his key piece on the national religion given in the three volumes of the Festive Calendar, Sandor Balint (1904–1980) paid little attention to the sacred tradition of present-day Vojvodina. The only exception is the ritual practice in the surroundings of Szeged. His first study of our area was published in the Catholic Review in 1942 among the sources of Catholic folk life in the South. Especially because of the inspiration given by the knowledge of medieval Hungarian piety, and at the same time the most inspiring source of Catholic rebirth in southern Bacska in the eighteenth century, which would like to highlight the role and influence of rural celebrations in organizing the community." In his work, Balint focused most on rural celebrations and pilgrimages, as he did in his second, slightly shorter dissertation, entitled Bacska Shrines which deals only with material from Bacska and appeared in the April 1943 issue of Kalangya. In this article, Sandor Balint really deals only with the theme of rural celebrations in Bacska and a brief history of pilgrimage sites mostly with Vodice in the north of Bacska, less frequently with Doroszlo, and he barely even mentions Bacs, as well as Ruski Krstur which is the pilgrimage site of Greek Orthodox Vojvodina, and he only mentions Srem in relation to the chapel of the Snow Blessed Virgin in Tekia. There is no mention of the miraculous water in Bunarić near Subotica. However, in the Holiday Calendar of our researcher we can find other notes concerning the territory of present-day Vojvodina.
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Documents related to alimentary history can be divided into three major groups with regard to the Balassa family. The first contains account books and the purchasing lists. The second group is constituted by the inventories, and the third by those family letters that concern gastronomical issues. Seventeenth and eighteenth century sources mainly deal with the equipment of the kitchen, and occasionally with its arrangement. Nineteenth century documents clearly attest that the medieval open range had definitively disappeared from the family kitchens by the middle of the century.
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The 1840 murder of a notable 19th century Bosnian dignitary Smail-aga Čengić immediately inspired strong artistic production in the South Slav literature and oral tradition. These narratives, comprising newspaper articles, oral epic songs, and particularly Ivan Mažuranić’s literary epics written in the manner of oral folk epic, presented and codified Smail-aga as a bloodthirsty tyrant whose ultimate aim was to terrorize and extinct his Christian subjects. In distinction, some marginalized local narratives and oral folk tradition, which will be examined in this article, remembered Smail-aga as a righteous and merciful lord, protector of his flock and a brave warrior. Thus, when we scrutinize several versions of oral songs about the death of Smail-aga recorded between 1845 and 1860, as well as later collected anecdotes from his native Herzegovina, it appears that his hostile portrayal in written literature was rather the contribution of the Serbian and Croatian Romantic nationalists around the mid-19th-century than an actual popular perception of him among local people in the region that he lived with. In conclusion, the article advocates for a wider consideration of the overall polyphonic narrative tradition and the revitalization of traditional narratives that glorify values which transcend strict religious, ethnic and national divisions as a way of reimagining and revaluating relationship of the South Slavs towards the Ottoman heritage.
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Review of: FICERI, Ondrej. Potrianonské Košice. Premeny etnických identít obyvateľov Košíc v medzivojnovom Československu [Košice Post-Trianon. Ethnic Identity Changes of Inhabitants of Košice in Interwar Czechoslovakia]. Bratislava: VEDA, Vydavateľstvo SAV, 2019, 336 pp. ISBN 978-80-224-1737-2
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The article is devoted to the scientific heritage of Jan Kvačala (1862-1934) on the history of religion. Kvačala’s professional activities cover several fields of knowledge, but he was mainly a historian. He is known for his research on the lives of such personalities as Jan Amos Comenius and Jan Hus. In 1885 Jan Kvačala received his doctorate in philosophy from his dissertation on Jan Amos Comenius. Kvačala began his lecturing and research activities in 1886 as a doctor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. Since 1893, he has been a Doctor of Theology at the University of Vienna. In 1893, he began to teach at the University of Dorpat (Tartu). Up to 1918 he taught such disciplines as the history of the church, dogmatics, symbolism, philosophy and led a historical seminar. In the same year, he held the post of Dean of the Faculty of Theology and headed the transfer of the Faculty from Tartu to Voronezh, where the University was evacuated due to the events of the First World War. After working until 1920, he returned to Slovakia. There he became a professor at Bratislava High School of Theology. After the end of the contract, Jan Rodomil Kvačala moved to Vienna, where he died on June 9, 1934. Jan Kvačala’s research during his work at the University of Tartu was aimed, on the one hand, at studying the ideas of Jan Hus in the context of religious processes from the 13th-14th centuries, and on the other hand, at the importance of his contribution for national history.
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