Migrating Memories

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Koranyi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
East Central European ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
Changing World

Romanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century yet their history is largely unknown. This east-central European minority negotiated their standing in a difficult new European order after 1918, changing from uneasy supporters of Romania, to zealous Nazis, tepid Communists, and conciliatory Europeans. Migrating Memories is the first comprehensive study in English of Romanian Germans and follows their stories as they move across borders and between regimes, revealing a very European experience of migration, minorities, and memories in modern Europe. After 1945, Romanian Germans struggled to make sense of their lives during the Cold War at a time when the community began to fracture and fragment. The Revolutions of 1989 seemed to mark the end of the German community in Romania, but instead Romanian Germans repositioned themselves as transnational European bridge-builders, staking out new claims in a fast-changing world.

scholarly journals Knjižna ocena - Anna Mazurkiewicz (ur.), East Central European Migrations During the Cold War: A Handbook; Berlin in Boston, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019, 430 str.

Two Homelands ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miha Zobec
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
East Central European

  Knjiga zgodovino migracij v vsaki od držav Srednje in Vzhodne Evrope podaja v zgoščeni obliki, zato niti ni mogoče pričakovati, da bi se avtorji posameznih prispevkov spuščali v poglobljeno pojasnjevanje migracijskih procesov. Ne glede na to pa knjiga da vedeti, da migracije niso obstranski, ampak ključni del zgodovine tega dela celine, ki jo je bolj kot priseljevanje zaznamovalo izseljevanje. Knjiga je dragocen doprinos k poznavanju preteklosti »druge Evrope«, z navedbo pomembnejšega arhivskega gradiva in literature na koncu razdelka o vsaki državi pa je tudi opora pri nadaljnjem raziskovanju. S seznanjanjem o izseljevanju v času komunistične zaprtosti, ki ga je vsaj ponekod zaznamoval tudi beg pred kremeljskimi tanki, nas opominja, da so države na to preteklost pri oblikovanju današnjih migracijskih politik očitno pozabile.

scholarly journals Slow Fires Still Burn: Results of a Preservation Assessment of Libraries in L’viv, Ukraine, and Sofia, Bulgaria

2003 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Baird ◽  
Bradley L. Schaffner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Past ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
East Central European

East Central European libraries face a serious threat of the potential disintegration of the vast majority of Slavic publications printed in the twentieth century. This loss will come as result of the combination of inferior materials used to produce most twentieth-century Slavic publications and inadequate facilities to house these collections. In an effort to gain a better understanding of the condition of Slavic publications, over the past two years, the authors have conducted collection condition surveys and reviewed the preservation operations of three major academic libraries in L’viv, Ukraine, and Sofia, Bulgaria. This paper presents the results of these surveys.

scholarly journals Calculation as a cultural practice in modern literature

Neohelicon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-508
Author(s):  
László Bengi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
East Central ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Central European ◽  
Raster Image ◽  
East Central European

Abstract The opposition between quantitative sciences and the humanities is a well-known problem of cultural debates, along with its reflection in the conflicting approaches to digital humanities. As the emphasis has moved from long-standing scientific methods of quantification to the overall digital turn of everyday life, this process sheds light on the varying sociocultural conditions for calculations in modern societies. Consequently, numbers cannot be conceived as inherent properties of things by discovery through experimentation and explanation: this essentialist conception seems to originate in a misunderstanding of nineteenth-century scientific research and its claim of objectivity. Rather, quantification and the cultural matrices of calculation build a raster image serving as an interface between world and mind. In this broad sense, everyday life is deeply pervaded by numbers. Moreover, the ability for calculations cannot be treated as a uniform skill any more. Instead, it varies in accordance with different cultural forms and functions. Number-based practices are also represented widely in modern literature and in non-literary works, such as being in the letters and diaries of many writers. The essay is thus intended to analyze and compare the forms of calculation in the novels and diaries of some East Central European writers—such as Kafka, Kosztolányi, Musil—who thrived in the first decades of the twentieth century. In so doing, it describes three models through which calculation as a cultural practice enters the field of literature.

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