Galician Portraits

Author : Andrew Zalewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Galicia, Eastern (Ukraine)
ISBN : 0985589426

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Galician Portraits by Andrew Zalewski Pdf

In his first book, Galician Trails, Andrew Zalewski traced his mother's family from the 18th century to the mid-20th. Now, in Galician Portraits, he discovers his father's side, who also lived in Galicia, but whose experiences were very different simply because they were Jewish. Galician Portraits is much more than a record of one family. The story is anchored in Austrian Galicia (1772-1918), which once spanned parts of today's Poland and Ukraine, but it also covers centuries of Jewish history in the region, before and after Galicia existed. Large cities, small towns, and tiny farming villages are the tale's backdrop. In them, people from a variety of ethnic groups live alongside a large community of Israelites. In these pages, Galicia's Jewish community emerges as far more diverse than one could ever imagine. The laws and trends of the day were hotly debated within it. A perpetual tension between old and new sometimes brought dramatic consequences, even breakaway factions. Passionate arguments about language, customs, and loyalties easily erupted. But even in difficult times, there were brave voices that spoke loudly against prejudice. Tracing Jewish heritage anywhere in Europe is complicated; and certainly, the long shadow of WWII broke any continuity between past and present in the place that was called Galicia. Yet the author has discovered many voices that had long been forgotten, as well as surprising details about his own family.

Author : Carmen Pérez Vidal,Maria Juan-Garau
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847690227

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A Portrait of the Young in the New Multilingual Spain by Carmen Pérez Vidal,Maria Juan-Garau Pdf

This book examines the main issues in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition through children and youngsters growing up in todays multicultural Spain, where four official languages and other new languages are used. The studies cover phonetics, g

Author : Benita Sampedro Vizcaya,José A. Losada Montero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319657295

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Rerouting Galician Studies by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya,José A. Losada Montero Pdf

This book—aimed at both the general reader and the specialist—offers a transatlantic, transnational, and multidisciplinary cartography of the rapidly expanding intellectual field of Galician Studies. In the twenty-one essays that comprise the volume, leading scholars based in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand engage with this field from the perspectives of queer theory, Atlantic and diasporic thought, political ecology, hydropoetics, theories of space, trauma and memory studies, exile, national/postnational approaches, linguistic ideologies, ethnographic poetry and photography, Galician language in the US academic curriculum, the politics of children’s books, film and visual studies, the interrelation of painting and literature, and material culture. Structured around five organizational categories (Frames, Routes, Readings, Teachings, and Visualities), and adopting a pluricentric view of Galicia as an analytical subject of study, the book brings cutting-edge debates in Galician Studies to a broad international readership.

Author : C. M. Hann,Paul R. Magocsi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802037817

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Galicia by C. M. Hann,Paul R. Magocsi Pdf

The essays in this volume examine Galicia beyond the traditional paradigm of national history, in an effort to better understand the region as a place where different ethnic communities - Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, Austro-Germans - lived in peaceful co-existence.

Author : Larry Wolff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0804774293

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The Idea of Galicia by Larry Wolff Pdf

Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful fascination for those who live in its former territories and for the descendants of those who emigrated out of Galicia. The idea of Galicia was largely produced by the cultures of two cities, Lviv and Cracow. Making use of travelers' accounts, newspaper reports, and literary works, Wolff engages such figures as Emperor Joseph II, Metternich, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Ivan Franko, Stanisław Wyspiański, Tadeusz "Boy" Żeleński, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and Bruno Schulz. He shows the exceptional importance of provincial space as a site for the evolution of cultural meanings and identities, and analyzes the province as the framework for non-national and multi-national understandings of empire in European history.

Author : John-Paul Himka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349193868

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Galician Villagers And The Ukrainian National Movement In The by John-Paul Himka Pdf

Author : Ewa Manikowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000213010

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Photography and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Nationalisms by Ewa Manikowska Pdf

The second half of the 19th century was a time of extensive political upheaval in central east Europe that saw the negotiation of conflicting territorial claims in the region by the Russian, Austrian and Prussian empires. The post-WW1 settlement gave rise to the formation of the independent nation states of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia and Belarus. Less well know is that this same period was also an era of keen photographic activity. During this time of empire-, state- and nation-building, cultural heritage was a potent vehicle and a provider of collective memory and identity.This innovative account analyses the relationship between politics, history, cultural heritage and photography in central east Europe between 1859 and 1945. To understand the work photographs ‘do’ in the construction of cultural heritage, the author analyses a wide range of little-known photographic archives created by contemporary professional and amateur photographers. Their work was extensively exploited in contemporary debates, appearing in albums, books, journals, exhibitions, museum exhibits, postcards and newspapers aimed at both scientific and popular and national and international publics. An extensive analysis of how photographic practices and outcomes were applied, borrowed, copied, appropriated and transmitted shows how photography was used to exert or subvert power, on the one hand, and as a tool in constructing and negotiating group identities on the other. By weaving photography and its patterns of making, dissemination and archival survival through major historical narratives, this volume reveals the centrality of photography and visual discourse at pivotal moments of modern history.

Author : Mikhail Kizilov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004166028

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The Karaites of Galicia by Mikhail Kizilov Pdf

The book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Karaites, an ethnoreligious group in Eastern Galicia (modern Ukraine). The small community of the Karaite Jews, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority, who had been living in Eastern Europe since the late Middle Ages, developed a unique ethnographic culture and religious tradition. The book offers the first comprehensive study of the Galician Karaite community from its earliest days until today with the main emphasis placed on the period from 1772 until 1945. Especially important is the analysis of the twentieth-century dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community, which saved the Karaites from the horrors of the Holocaust.

Author : Eleonora Narvselius
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739164709

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Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv by Eleonora Narvselius Pdf

This study brings into focus the issue of reproduction and transformation of cultural authority in the so-called post-Soviet context. Being anchored to sociological theories on intellectual autonomy and empowerment through narrativization, it approaches daily practices, situations and popular narratives which bring insight into everyday concerns and motivations of the educated Western Ukrainians.

Author : András Bárány,Theresa Biberauer,Jamie Douglas ,Sten Vikner
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102884

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Syntactic architecture and its consequences II by András Bárány,Theresa Biberauer,Jamie Douglas ,Sten Vikner Pdf

This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters address research questions in comparative morphosyntax, including the modelling of syntactic categories, relative clauses, and demonstrative systems. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and give the reader a sense of the lively nature of current discussion of topics in morphosyntax and morphosyntactic variation.

Author : Daniel L. Unowsky
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1557534004

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The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism by Daniel L. Unowsky Pdf

This book examines the promotion and reception of the image of Franz Joseph (Habsburg emperor from 1848 to 1916) as a symbol of common identity in the Austrian half of the Habsburg Monarchy (Cisleithania). In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century the promotion of the cult of the emperor encouraged a Cisleithania-wide culture of imperial celebration. On Franz Joseph's birthdays and jubilees, cities produced special theater productions, torchlight parades, and ethnic/historical processions. Thousands of voluntary associations sponsored local festivities. Hundreds of thousands of villagers and townspeople set transparent portraits of Franz Joseph in illuminated windows. Publishers sold millions of commemorative books and pamphlets, and retailers offered busts, plaques, and mass-produced portraits of the emperor. The ability of the center to control the meaning of Habsburg patriotism was limited, however. This study concentrates on the official presentation of the imperial cult as well as on the use or rejection of the image of the emperor by regional social and nationalist factions. It analyzes both the production of the cult of the emperor and its reception, illuminating the tension between national and supra-national identity in an age of expanding political participation.

Author : Margaret Hutchison,Steven Trout
Publisher : War, Memory, and Culture
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817320508

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Portraits of Remembrance by Margaret Hutchison,Steven Trout Pdf

Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict Although photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public's appetite for the kind of up-close frontline action that snapshots and film footage could not yet provide resulted in a robust market for drawn or painted battle scenes. Painting also figured significantly in the formation of collective war memory after the armistice. Paintings became sites of memory in two ways: first, many governments and communities invested in freestanding panoramas or cycloramas that depicted the war or featured murals as components of even larger commemorative projects, and second, certain paintings, whether created by official artists or simply by those moved to do so, emerged over time as visual touchstones in the public's understanding of the war. Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale, including modernist masterpieces and crowd-pleasing expressions of sentimentality or spiritualism. Contributors raise a host of topics in connection with the volume's overarching focus on memory, including national identity, constructions of gender, historical accuracy, issues of aesthetic taste, and connections between painting and literature, as well as other cultural forms.

Author : Karen Underhill
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253057280

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Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity by Karen Underhill Pdf

"In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like many of his Galician Jewish colleagues who would choose to write in Yiddish, Schulz used the Polish language to explore his own and his generation's relationship to East European Jewish exegetical tradition, and to deepen his reflection on golus or exile as a condition not only of the individual and of the Jewish community, but of language itself, and of matter. Drawing on new archival discoveries, this study explores Schulz's diasporic Jewish modernism as an example of the creative and also transient poetic forms that emerged on formerly Habsburg territory, at the historical juncture between empire and nation-state"--

Author : Danylo Husar Struk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 2642 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442651272

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Encyclopedia of Ukraine by Danylo Husar Struk Pdf

Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1121 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004288607

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Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia by Anonim Pdf

In Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine art, religion, literature, and politics to chart Galicia’s changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century.