scholarly journals The Polish Community in the Urban Space of Kharkiv in the Second Half of the 19th – early 20th Century

Res Historica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Анастасія Боженко
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Early 20Th Century

scholarly journals A Place of Pretense and Escapism: The Coffeehouse in Early 20th Century Budapest Jewish Literature

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Mari Rethelyi
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Jewish Writers

In Budapest, going to the coffeehouiennese Café and Fin-De-Siecle Cultuse was the quintessential urban habit. The coffeehouse, a Judaized urban space, although devoid of any religious overtones, was Jewish in that most of the owners and significant majority of the intellectual clientele were Jewish—secular and non-affiliated—but Jewish. The writers’ Jewishness was not a confessed faith or identity, but a lens on the experience of life that stemmed from their origins, whether they were affiliated with a Jewish institution or not, and whether they identified as Jews or not. The coffeehouse enabled Jews to create and participate in the culture that replaced traditional ethnic and religious affiliations. The new secular urban Jew needed a place to express and practice this new identity, and going to the coffeehouse was an important part of that identity. Hungarian Jewish literature centered in Budapest contains a significant amount of material on the coffeehouse. Literature provided a non-constrained and unfiltered venue for the secular Jewish urban intellectuals to voice freely and directly their opinions on Jewish life at the time. In the article I examine what the Jewish writers of the early 20th century wrote about Budapest’s coffeehouses and how their experience of them is connected to their being Jewish.

scholarly journals A small river within the urban space. The evolution of the relationship using the example of Łódź

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Kobojek
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Small River ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The aim of this article is to present the relationship between an industrial city and a small river within the last 200 years and the contemporary development and functions of rivers and valleys. The study was conducted in Łódź (currently nearly 699,000 inhabitants). In the 19th and in the early 20th century, the spatial development of the city also caused considerable transformations of rivers and their valleys. It was only at the turn of the 20th century, i.e. after the fall of the textile industry and a rise of the focus on ecological structures within a city, that the authorities decided to repair the utilisation of rivers and valleys.

URBAN IDENTITY IN COLONIAL TUNISIA: THE MAQĀMĀT OF SALIH SUWAYSI AL-QAYRAWANI

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 693-712
Author(s):  
Kimberly Katz
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Language Structure

AbstractThis article presents a microhistory of an early 20th-century Tunisian intellectual, Salih Suwaysi, within the context of cross-regional (Maghrib–Mashriq) literary and intellectual trends. Analyzing Suwaysi's use of the conventional literary genre of maqāmāt illustrates his deep understanding of the problems caused by France's occupation of Tunisia and highlights the significance of historical and contemporary urban space for the author. Revitalized during the nahḍa period, maqāmāt were employed by writers to address issues and problems facing contemporary society, in contrast to some of the earlier maqāmāt that focused on language and language structure more than on narrative content. Suwaysi followed his eastern Mediterranean, especially Egyptian, contemporaries in turning to this genre to convey his critical commentaries on social, religious, and political life under the French Protectorate in Tunisia.

scholarly journals The Architecture of Kazan in Graphics of the Tatar Satirical Magazines “Yashen” and “Yalt-Yult”

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-299
Author(s):  
Firdaus G. Vagapova
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Visual Memory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

One of the positive phenomena of mo­dern culture is its tendency to study and preserve urban space, which is especially important for historical cities. The appeal of researchers to the study of urban landscapes, made by artists of pre­vious eras and left for descendants to see the views of large and small ci­ties, contributes to the process of lost monuments reconstruction. The importance of studying images of cities through visual sources is determined by the fact that cities are territories connected with lives of people, who are involved in creation of their architectural monuments. Ci­ties are the habitat of people that reflects their daily life. The article, for the first time, explores the features of the Kazan urban art of the early 20th century reflected in graphic works of the Tatar satirical magazines “Yashen” (“Lightning”) and “Yalt-Yult” (“Sparkle”), published in the early 20th century. The drawings presented in “Yashen” and “Yalt-Yult” are illustrations to articles and feuilletons.Most of the drawings are made in the genre of cartoons, which is predetermined by the studied ma­gazines’ subject matter. Mainly, architectural objects depicted in the cartoons of “Yashen” and “Yalt-Yult” magazines do not have an independent meaning, they are only “present” in picture’s composition in order to show an event from the city’s life more clearly. Another group of the Tatar satirical magazines’ drawings represents the ima­ges of the architectural structures that illustrate texts of advertisements. In this group’s graphics, depiction of architectural monuments is characte­rized by careful elaboration of details due to the reconstruction of the architectural structure’s image through visual memory. Because of the fact that at the beginning of the 20th century, the main part of the Tatar population of Kazan lived on the territory of the Old and New Tatar Slobodas, the authors of articles, feuilletons and cartoons in the magazines mainly reflected the life of those parts of the city.The research is based on the study of fundamental works and publications of Russian scientists and the analysis of the body of sources: articles and dra­wings from the magazines “Yashen” and “Yalt-Yult”, archival materials.

scholarly journals BETWEEN EMPIRE AND NATION STATE. URBAN SPACE AND CONFLICTING MEMORIES IN TRIESTE (19TH–EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Andrea Griffante
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
Economic Ground ◽  
Fascist Regime ◽  
Narrative Construct

Cities are particular spaces in which such a fight for territory occurs. By their own nature, cities imply a work of transformation and appropriation of territory into a narrative construct or text. In the 19th and early 20thcentury, Trieste underwent a transformation of its own urban space that expressed the existence and concurrence of different national narratives. In the 18th and 19th centuries the Trieste's coastline performed the cosmopolitan elite's identity by highlighting the relation between social status, ethnic origins of elite's member, and the individuals’ conscience of participating in the exceptionality of a city ‘without history.’ As the elite's economic ground changed, the representation of identity in space changed consequently. The consolidation of fascist regime supported the construction of a new myth of Trieste characterized by an old Roman origin and the heroic efforts of its inhabitants to join the ‘Motherland’ that led to the creation of a new main urban axis constellated with sites highly representative of Trieste's ‘Latinity’ and permeated by a sense of collective participation in historical continuity.

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