"The Enchanted Garden" or "The Red Flag": Eastern Europe in Late Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Gephardt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Red Flag ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurit Yaari
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
State Of Israel

This chapter examines the lack of continuous tradition of the art of the theatre in the history of Jewish culture. Theatre as art and institution was forbidden for Jews during most of their history, and although there were plays written in different times and places during the past centuries, no tradition of theatre evolved in Jewish culture until the middle of the nineteenth century. In view of this absence, the author discusses the genesis of Jewish theatre in Eastern Europe and in Eretz-Yisrael (The Land of Israel) since the late nineteenth century, encouraged by the Jewish Enlightenment movement, the emergence of Jewish nationalism, and the rebirth of Hebrew as a language of everyday life. Finally, the chapter traces the development of parallel strands of theatre that preceded the Israeli theatre and shadowed the emergence of the political infrastructure of the future State of Israel.

Remarriage among Jews and Christians

2010 ◽  
pp. 56-85
Author(s):  
Shaul Stampfer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Group Characteristics ◽  
Over Time

This chapter investigates the phenomenon of remarriage in nineteenth-century eastern Europe, demonstrating its significance in Jewish marital behaviour. Patterns of remarriage deserve attention for a number of reasons: they influenced fertility levels, affected family structure, played a role in networking, and served as an indicator of the importance of marriage in a given society. Remarriage is highly revealing of group characteristics and behaviour, but remarriage in late nineteenth-century eastern Europe merits attention for an additional reason. Patterns of remarriage and their changes over time significantly diverged among various population groups. Eastern Europe is thus an excellent context for examining the impact of significant variables on remarriage by means of a comparative approach. The chapter then evaluates modes of remarriage among four major religious-national groups: Russian Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. It also considers important differences between Jews and Christians in specific patterns of remarriage.

Modern Arabic Literature as Seen in the Late Nineteenth Century: Jurji Murqus’s Contribution to Korsh and Kirpichnikov’s Vseobshchaya Istoriya Literatury*

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Modern Arabic

This chapter discusses modern Arabic literature as seen in the late nineteenth century by focusing on Jurji Ibrahim Murqus's contribution to Vseobshchaya Istoriya literatury (Universal History of Literature), edited by V. F. Korsh and A. I. Kirpichnikov. Murqus was a Syrian academic migrant who left Damascus in 1860. He studied at the Faculty of Oriental Languages of the University of St Petersburg and taught Arabic at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow. This chapter presents a slightly abridged rendering of Murqus's text, which concentrates on the evolution of the Arabic language, on prose writers and on translators. It also considers Murqus's position where prose genres are concerned, with particular emphasis on his recognition of the significance of travel writing, as well as his views on translation. Finally, it suggests that Mustafa Badawi would have disputed some of Murqus's statements on sound scholarly grounds.

Anthracite Mining

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Paul A. Shackel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Coal Production ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Surplus Labor ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Northeastern Pennsylvania’s transportation infrastructure developed, first, with the construction of canals and, later, with the development of rail lines. Early coal operations enticed miners from England and Wales to work in the region. By the mid-nineteenth century an influx of Irish workers arrived to meet the growing demands of coal production. In the late nineteenth century, coal operators made a concerted effort to create surplus labor by recruiting an extraordinary number of workers from southern and eastern Europe. High unemployment rates kept wages low and company profits high. The new immigrants were generally not accepted as equals by descendants of the first wave of European settlers, and the racialization of the southern and eastern Europeans became codified in popular culture and in official government documents.

GENDER AND GENRE IN FANNY VAN DE GRIFT STEVENSON’S PERIODICAL WRITING

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wånggren
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Gender And Genre ◽  
Periodical Publishing

Abstract Despite scholarly recovery of many nineteenth-century women writers, especially those publishing mainly in periodicals, the fiction, travel writing and journalism of Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1840–1914) are still neglected. Situating Van de Grift Stevenson in the context of late nineteenth-century US periodical culture, this article considers how many of the author’s periodical writings cross not only geographical but also generic boundaries. Van de Grift Stevenson’s periodical publishing appears in a variety of modes and genres, at times with journalistic material entering her fiction, domestic life including recipes inserted in her journalism, and autobiography glimpsed in both fiction and journalism. The article examines this author’s transatlantic periodical writings in the context of gender and genre, noting the ways in which these categories intersect throughout her authorship. Focusing especially on the author’s regional writing as seen in her non-fiction ‘cookbook articles’ Ramblings of a Housewife and the short story ‘The Warlock’s Shadow’, the article argues that Van de Grift Stevenson’s blending of regional and domestic modes of writing presents a specific interrogation of cultural and geographical identities.

‘He States That This is the Most Lovely Building He Has Ever Had the Pleasure of Seeing . . . ’

Journeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Model ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Travel Journal ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Member Of Parliament

The travel journal, collecting, and exhibition of objects by museum founder, tea merchant and Member of Parliament Frederick Horniman (1835–1906) in the late nineteenth century demonstrate how material objects exemplify travel writing. Through an examination of objects he collected and later interpreted at the Horniman Free Museum, this article presents a case study of how collecting activities mirror and serve as a form of travel writing. This article presents a new model for understanding, beyond the written word, how travelers can capture the experience of a foreign expedition through the collecting and interpretation of objects.

Demography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Wodziński
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Demographic Parameters ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Power And Influence

This chapter revisits the oft-discussed issue of the Hasidic movement’s alleged “conquest” of Eastern Europe and its demographic parameters. How many Hasidim really were there and when did this “conquest” take place? First, by introducing rich quantitative materials and by a close reading of qualitative sources, this chapter arrives at a new scheme of development of Hasidism that challenges much of the accepted knowledge on the Hasidic “conquest” of Eastern Europe. More specifically, it demonstrates that Hasidic penetration into Jewish Eastern Europe reached its peak in the mid- and late-nineteenth century, and not around 1800, as historiography traditionally has claimed. Second, it qualifies the very concept of the Hasidic “conquest” and “dominance” by demonstrating a much more nuanced interrelation between the numbers of Hasidim and their power and influence.

Transnational Romance, Terror, and Heroism: Russia in American Popular Fiction, 1860–1917

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 753-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choi Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Scholars of Russian-American relations in the late nineteenth century have long been concerned with the personalities and writings of university-based experts, journalists, diplomats, and political activists. We are well acquainted with the observations of various American commentators on the backward state of Russian state, society, economy, and politics. While the activities of prominent men such as George Kennan have effortlessly dominated the historical agenda, the negative discourses that they produced about Russia have subsumed other important American representations of the country. Since the period of early modern history, European travelers had seen Russia as a barbarous land of slave-like people, responsive only to the persuasions of the whip and the knout wielded by an autocratic tsar. Subsequently, Larry Wolff has shown that Voltaire and other Enlightenment philosophers created images of a despotic and backward Eastern Europe in order to validate the idea of a progressive, enlightened, and civilized Western Europe.

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