Culture front: representing Jews in Eastern Europe
"This volume brings together contributions by both historians and literary scholars to take readers on a journey across the cultural history of East European Jewry from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. The essays collected here explore how Jews and their Slavic neighb…
Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.
Kyrylo-Mefodiïvsʹke tovarystvo: u trʹokh tomakh
by Sokhanʹ, P. S., (Pavel Stepanovich), Hlyzʹ, I. I., Butych, M. I., Franko, O. O., (Oksana Omeli︠a︡nivna), Akademii︠a︡ nauk Ukraïnsʹkoï RSR., Arkheohrafichna komisii︠a︡, Instytut istoriï (Akademii︠a︡ nauk Ukraïnsʹkoï RSR), T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ istorychnyĭ arkhiv URSR u m. Kyi︠e︡vi
This volume contains selected papers from an international conference held in 2009 in Varna, Bulgaria. The papers represent major trends and developments in current research on the medieval Slavonic biblical tradition, primarily in comparison with Greek and Hebrew texts. The vol…
Women's writing from the former/post-Yugoslavia recollects but also produces the links among the post-Yugoslav present and the Yugoslav past - as either those bygone Yugoslav days or the recent war history. Along with a gynocritical intervention that draws attention to an uninte…
The people of Eastern Europe have a long and rich cultural history. Central to that history are the folktales, traditions, and customs of the region. Some elements of Slavic folklore, such as vampire legends and Easter eggs, are well known, while others are more obscure. And whe…
The latest developments in the countries of eastern Europe pose important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations. This book traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on premodern forms of group identity among the Easte…
