Everyday Life and the Shtetl

2018 ◽  
pp. 381-396
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Veidlinger
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
World War ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Interwar Poland ◽  
Second World ◽  
Radical Movement

This chapter talks about the historiography and idea of the shtetl that has become so romanticized in the Jewish imagination of today that it has become difficult to separate fact from fiction. It looks at the antisemitic campaigns in interwar Poland by focusing on the propaganda of the radical movement called Ruch Narodowo-Radykalny propaganda. It also investigates the gender perspective on the rescue of Jews in Poland during the Second World War. The chapter discusses a report on the situation in Poland in mid-1941 that was prepared by Roman Catholic activists. It also looks at the interview with David Roskies on his most recent book on Holocaust literature, which was conducted by Paweł Wolski.

scholarly journals Storia di un antifascista siciliano, professore di lingue classiche: Carmelo Salanitro (Adrano, 1894 – Mauthausen, 1945) = History of a Sicilian antifascist, professor of classics: Carmelo Salanitro (Adrano, 1894 – Mauthausen, 1945)

ΠΗΓΗ/FONS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Gian Franco Gianotti
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
European History ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
World War ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Italian School ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

Resumen: Basado en el análisis de un libro reciente (Pietro Scalisi, L’onore e la viltà. In Memoria di Carmelo Salanitro Martire del Libero Pensiero, 2016), el artículo recorre la vida y el legado de Carmelo Salanitro, un antifascista siciliano condenado por la dictadura italiana y muerto en un campo de exterminio alemán. En la biografía de Salanitro se destaca el estrecho vínculo entre los estudios clásicos, la enseñanza de latín y griego y la búsqueda de la libertad: una relación ejemplar en la historia europea de la primera mitad del siglo XX.Palabras clave: Carmelo Salanitro, antifascismo, Segunda Guerra Mundial, idiomas clásicos, escuela italiana.Abstract: Based on a recent book (Pietro Scalisi, L’onore e la viltà. In Memoria di Carmelo Salanitro Martire del Libero Pensiero, 2016), the article traces the life and the witness of freedom of Carmelo Salanitro, a Sicilian anti-fascist condemned by the Italian dictatorship and died in a German extermination camp. In the biography of Salanitro stands out the close link between classical studies, teaching of Latin and Greek and the pursuit of freedom: an exemplary relationship in the European history of the first half of the 20th century.Keywords: Carmelo Salanitro, Anti-fascism, Second World War, Classical languages, Italian school.

‘Anti-Fascist Literature’ as Holocaust Literature?

2019 ◽  
pp. 409-426
Author(s):  
Richard S. Esbenshade
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Second World

THE long-accepted, fairly universal idea of a ‘great silence’ on the Holocaust in general, and in Hungary in particular, extending from the end of the Second World War until the Eichmann trial, has recently been challenged.1 The return or emergence from hiding of survivors quickly led to an explosion of Holocaust literature. Before the communist takeover, in the midst of difficult material and turbulent political conditions, Jenő Lévai and others published collections of documents;...

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 271-284
Author(s):  
Ken Hirschkop
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Social ◽  
Second World

The conclusion examines the situation after the Second World War. It shows how the linguistic turn in analytic philosophy ended and how the social democratic settlement in Western Europe gave birth to the new linguistic turns known as structuralism. The author explores the former by examining the career of Richard Rorty and the latter by looking at how Roland Barthes combines ideas from Saussure with a project for a radical analysis of French everyday life in the Mythologies. The book concludes with a review of how the various linguistic turns overinvested in the idea of language.

„Ducha nie gaście” – treści wychowawcze na łamach nacjonalistycznych czasopism konspiracyjnych w Polsce w okresie II wojny światowej

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4(250)) ◽  
pp. 152-165
Author(s):  
Andrzej Kołakowski
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
World War ◽  
Information Bulletin ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
Stereotypical Image ◽  
Second World ◽  
Important Form ◽  
Radical Movement

An important form of struggle against the German occupant during the Second World War were illegal magazines appearing throughout Poland. Their task was to counteract enemy propaganda, break the informational blockade, and shape citizens’ awareness. Apart from the “Information Bulletin of the Home Army” edited by the Polish Underground State, there appeared also magazines edited by political organisations, including those related to the national-radical movement. Young editors from the Młodzież Wszechpolska and Młodzież Wielkiej Polski organisations stressed that one of the greatest threats posed by the war is the demoralisation of the young generation, and that the need to counteract this phenomenon is as important as the armed struggle. The analysed texts reveal a less known, non-stereotypical image of Polish nationalistic organisations.

Baghdad during the Second World War years

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
Ghazi Karim
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

A remembrance of the experience of Baghdad during the Second World War, is presented mainly from the vantage of the book sellers’ market of Suq Al Sarai, located in the centre of Baghdad near Al-Sarai and Al-Mutanabbi streets. The Suq, long the locale of cultural exchange and a foundry for Iraqi intellectual life, experienced the war in a unique way, with shortages of paper and accessibility to foreign books, journals and voices at the fore, rather than the absence of foodstuffs and other necessities of everyday life made short due to the war. The author notes how the violence and the attendant dislocation brought to this home of ideas and comity was to see itself repeated with even much greater bloodshed in a further violent clash during 2007.

scholarly journals Ideological foundations of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Abroad (1950s – early 1990s)

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
National Liberation Movement ◽  
The Right ◽  
Second World ◽  
Radical Movement ◽  
Western Democracies

The article is devoted to the study of transformation of the nationalist ideology of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Abroad in the 1950s – early 1990s. The article describes how members of the radical movement, revolutionary underground armed groups carried out the actualization of ideological doctrine under the influence of activities in Western democracies. On the basis of analysis of ideological publications of members of the organization and program documents, the integration of the principles of liberal and social democracy into the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism is investigated. The content of the strategy of the peaceful revolution of the national liberation movement to create unorganized resistance in Soviet Ukraine is described. The aim of the study is to reveal the ideological foundations, worldview principles of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Abroad and to consider the transition The methodological basis of the study is the principle of historicity and systematicity, as well as comparative-historical and problem-specific methods. Results of the research. In the diaspora it was a second split in the Ukrainian national movement, which was caused by the different interpretation of evolutions that the OUN underwent during the Second World War and vision of the strategy of struggle for the restoration of state independence of Ukraine. As a result, a new structure emerged – the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Abroad (OUN(z)), which preferred moderate positions adapted to socio-political circumstance. The members of the organization took as a basis the resolution of the III Extraordinary Big Assembly OUN(b) of 1943 and developed various aspects of ideology in analytical publications. The doctrine was modernized by supplementing elements of social and political democracy and the strategy of world revolution with the support of anti-regime dynamics in Soviet society. Preserving the basic postulates of nationalism, the OUN(z) made the transition to a democratic ideology. Scientific novelty. Based on the content analysis of program documents, analytical publications of leading OUN(z) figures, the ideological concept of the organization was reconstructed, the evolution of the doctrine under the pressure of historical circumstances and the new socio-political reality was traced. Conclusions. The OUN(z) withdrew from the right-wing radical movement, but in the diaspora they tried to actualize its doctrine. The organization abandoned the principles of revolutionary orthodoxy and elements of integral nationalism, which contributed to changes in the theoretical-conceptual and program-political level and to formation of the ideology of democratic nationalism.

Listening as a Practice of Everyday Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Gregor
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
World War ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
Behavioral Norms ◽  
Symphonic Music ◽  
Second World

Why, and how, did Germans listen to symphonic music during the Second World War? This chapter focuses on wartime Munich, where there was a strong increase in performances owing to expanded demand by listeners. Most work on concert-hall life in this period echoes clichéd claims regarding the relation between culture and barbarism; this chapter seeks instead to explore the everydayness of the practice, which embodied a social habit that remained fundamentally unchanged from before the war and continued unchanged after it. One might speak in this context of the “regime of listening” that governed behavioral norms in the Western concert hall more generally. In this sense, the chapter argues that it is easier to make sense of how and why Germans listened to music during the war if we worry less about their nationality and concentrate more on the connection of this phenomenon to sensory cultures in the period more broadly.

Shannon L. Fogg, Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942–1947. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 197 pp.

2020 ◽  
pp. 290-292
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Vichy France ◽  
Second World ◽  
Oxford University Press

Several years ago, Shannon Fogg published an important book, The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France, in which she analyzed the effects of material distress on the range of attitudes toward the Vichy government and its treatment of strangers, showing that pragmatism generally prevailed over ideology. In this new book, Fogg maintains her focus on the problematics of everyday life but moves her spotlight to the victims of this same Vichy government, the Jews, and widens her chronological scope to include the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. ...

scholarly journals Contemporary relations of Serbian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches

2010 ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Marko Nikolic
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Catholic Churches ◽  
Second World

The issue of primacy divides Roman Catholic (RCC) and Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) in theological field. Painful historical heritage from Second World War is also the great obstacle. Yugoslav atheistic state supported development of inter-church relations in acceptable proportion that would increase national relations in Yugoslav federation. Its fear was related to possible 'common front' against ideological system. Regional inter-church relations were initiated by Vatican and Pope Paul II, while SOC accepted it particularly in the social field. Both agreed on common responsibility for the evangelization an atheistic society. The variety of institutional forms of cooperation was also agreed, Common Commission for dialogue of SOC Council and Yugoslav Bishop Conference, and Theological Faculties Conferences in Post World War II Vatican period. In post-conflict Balkan Societies, RCC and SOC agreed to continue common activities for post-conflict rehabilitation and evangelizational purposes.

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