This study was concerned with examining any differences between the cultural value characteristics of entrepreneurs and factory workers in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, and Kyrgyzstan, and whether these differ…
Beginning in the 1820s, a group of young men in Vilna began to emerge from the confines of traditional Jewish society and explore new areas of knowledge and understanding. In time, these curious intellectuals identified themselves with the European Enlightenment in addition to i…
This work is an anatomy of the nationalist challenge to incumbent power in the Soviet Union Republics and of its continuing reverberations in the successor states during the tumultuous years from 1988–1994. It is a study of commonality and variation. Similarities are readily app…
Tourism visits to sites associated to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark tourism’. Research to date has been based on the mobilisation of various social scientific me…
This dissertation examines selected Orthodox printing houses of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Poland-Lithuania, showing how printers of Orthodox literature encountered linguistic, economic, and cultural problems distinct from those of their Catholic counterparts, especially…
Through his position as head of the Ez Hayyim Yeshiva in Volozhin and as a prolific and popular author, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin (Neziv; 1816-1893) stood at the very center of Lithuanian rabbinic society during the second half of the nineteenth century. This dissertation…
There has been relatively little historical analysis of the life and work of Hayim Zelig Slonimski (1810-1904), the foremost popularizer of the sciences in the Eastern European Jewish Enlightenment movement. Initially inspired by the rationalist trend and discussion of scientifi…
This thesis investigates the impact of the Zaporozhian and Don Cossacks, particularly their naval raids on the Black Sea, on the relations between the Ottoman Empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Muscovy between the War of Xotyn' and the fall of Khan Mehmed Gerey and …
Despite numerous post-WWII social science predictions that ethnic nationalist conflicts were destined to whither away, the second half of the twentieth century has seen the persistence of such conflicts. Ethnonationalist conflicts have remained as virulent as ever during the las…
The works of Algerian author Assia Djebar and Litvak writer Icchokas Meras lie at the centre of this study. In it I consider the texts of Djebar and Meras as texts of minor literature, using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature as my starting poin…
Lithuania is a fledgling nation built on 19th and 20th century conceptions of ethno-linguistic nationalism.Yet its capital, Vilnius, is a hybrid state of Polish, Jewish, Soviet, and Lithuanian heritage that challenges the notionof a singular state identity. Memory and identity c…
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be underdiagnosed in Lithuania, a country with a long history of war exposure. The purpose of this study is to translate the Short Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Rating Interview - Self Report (SPRINT-SR) to Lithuanian and to culturally v…