scholarly journals Působení Jaroslava Bidla a Milady Paulové v pražské univerzitní extenzi

2022 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-88
Author(s):  
Daniela Brádlerová ◽  
Marek Ďurčanský
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Slavic Studies

Like many other universities across Europe, the Czech Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague (later Charles University), too, since the end of the nineteenth century tried to reach wider strata of society using lectures intended for the broad public, so-called ‘extensions’. These activities importantly included several representatives of historical Slavic studies, especially Jaroslav Bidlo and his student Milada Paulová. This study focuses on the period during which Bidlo, in 1921–1931, served as president of the Prague committee for organising lectures for the broad public, the ‘Extension of Prague Universities’, while Paulová helped as a secretary of this institution (1921–1935).

scholarly journals Slavic Scholar and Educator Pyotr Bezsonov (1827-1898): A Life and Legacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Alexander Kaplin ◽  
Olha Honcharova ◽  
Valentyna Hlushych ◽  
Halyna Marykivska ◽  
Viktoriia Budianska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
European Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Slavic Studies

Nowadays the name of Pyotr Bezsonov, the acknowledged in pre-revolutionary Russia scholar, is known to but a narrow circle of researchers as some myths and stereotypes about him have proved difficult to overwhelm. Yet, he traced in the history of Slavic studies as an assiduous collector of ancient Russian and Slavic literature works and explorer of Bulgarian, Belarusian and Serbian folklore, folk songs in particular, a scrutinizer of the Slavic languages and dialects, a talented pedagogue and editor. Based on the genuine sources, such as letters, documents and memoirs, as well as nineteenth century publications, which have become the bibliographic rarities, this article aims to present the revised biography of the scholar through revealing the hitherto unknown or underestimated facts of his life and research activity; also, to highlight his achievements in the field of Slavic history, literatures and linguistics; finally, to determine the place deserved by Bezsonov in Russian and European culture as a whole. The special attention is given to the Kharkiv period, related to the years of his professorship at Kharkiv University.   Received: 17 February 2021 / Accepted: 9 April 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021

Christian Hajjis—the Other Orthodox Pilgrims to Jerusalem

Slavic Review ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-346
Author(s):  
Valentina Izmirlieva
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
Slavic Studies

In this article, I identify the Christian “hajj” to Jerusalem as an important Ottoman sociocultural phenomenon. I argue that by the nineteenth century the Balkan Eastern Orthodox communities in the Ottoman empire had restructured and reinterpreted their Holy Land pilgrimages to mirror the Muslim hajj to Mecca. As a result, the ritual trip to Jerusalem was transformed into a mechanism for upward social mobility and communal empowerment. By exploring the structural and functional similarities between the Muslim and the Christian hajj, this article contributes to studies of Muslim-Christian interactions outside “the clash of civilizations” paradigm. It also reveals striking distinctions between the Balkan Christian hajjis and the Russian palomniki, calling into question the influential scholarly assumption of Eastern Orthodox practices' homogeneity, an assumption that stands largely uncontested in the field of Slavic studies.

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