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Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik 13 13 Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik 13 Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska / Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska / Agata Handley / Piotr Zawilski (eds.) Agata Handley / Piotr Zawilski (eds.) Piotr Zawilski (eds.) (eds.) Piotr Zawilski The Great War / This publication is a collection of articles The Editors The Great War which summarise results of investigations Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska works at into archival materials concerning war- the University of Łódz´, the Department of time stories of various nations involved in Literature and Culture of Germany, Aus- Insights and Perspectives the Great War. The objective of the authors tria and Switzerland. The main areas of was to analyse the wartime experience of her academic research include German Agata Handley individuals and local communities as well 20th century literature, Polish-German / as whole nations. 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He is the Vice-President a multifaceted portrayal of the war seen of the Association of Polish Archivists and from local and international perspectives. a former director of the State Archive in Dzikowska Katarzyna Piotrków Trybunalski. Elz˙bieta The Great War The Great ISBN 978-3-631-66111-6 GEP 13_266111_Dzikowska_AM_A5HC PLE.indd 1 04.05.16 KW 18 14:50 Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik 13 13 Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik 13 Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska/ Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska / Agata Handley / Piotr Zawilski (eds.) Agata Handley/Piotr Zawilski (eds.) The Great War This publication is a collection of articles The Editors The Great War which summarise results of investigations Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska works at into archival materials concerning war- the University of Łódz´, the Department of time stories of various nations involved in Literature and Culture of Germany, Aus- Insights and Perspectives the Great War. The objective of the authors tria and Switzerland. The main areas of was to analyse the wartime experience of her academic research include German individuals and local communities as well 20th century literature, Polish-German as whole nations. They further tried to comparative literature and gender issues. present a closer, more personal overview Agata Handley works as a lecturer and a of wartime drama. As a result the book researcher at the University of Łódz´, the portrays the impact of the Great War on Department of Literature and Culture of the lives of multicultural communities, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The re-constructs individual war narratives main areas of her academic interest are and studies consequences of the conflict. literature translation, British culture and The use of various types of historical contemporary British poetry. materials from state archives and from Piotr Zawilski is the director of the State other sources enabled the authors to create Archive in Łódz´. He is the Vice-President a multifaceted portrayal of the war seen of the Association of Polish Archivists and from local and international perspectives. a former director of the State Archive in Piotrków Trybunalski. Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska/Agata Katarzyna Handley/Piotr Elz˙bieta (eds.) Zawilski The Great War The Great GEP 13_266111_Dzikowska_AM_A5HC PLE.indd 1 04.05.16 KW 18 14:50 The Great War GESCHICHTE - ERINNERUNG - POLITIK POSENER STUDIEN ZUR GESCHICHTS-, KULTUR- UND POLITIKWISSENSCHAFT Herausgegeben von Anna Wolff-Pow ska und Piotr Forecki ę BAND 13 El bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska / Agata Handley / Piotr Zawilski (eds.) ż The Great War Insights and Perspectives Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Dzikowska, El bieta Katarzyna, editor. | Handley, Agata, 1979- editor. | Zawilski, Piotr, editor. Title: The Great War : insightsż and perspectives / El bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska, Agata Handley, Piotr Zawilski (eds.). Description: New York : Peter Lang, 2016. | Series: Geschichte–Erinnerung–ż Politik, ISSN 2191-3528 ; Band 13 Identifiers: LCCN 2016010971| ISBN 9783631661116 | ISBN 9783653055870 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1914-1918–Social aspects. | World War, 1914-1918– Influence. | War and society–History–20th century. Classification: LCC D524.6 .G74 2016 | DDC 940.3–dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016010971 This publication was financially supported by the University of Łód and the State Archive in Łód . ź Reviewers: prof. Hans-Jürgen Boemelburg, prof. Krystynaź Radziszewska Technical Editor: Karolina Goławska Translators: Zofia Piwowarska, Marta Moraczewska, Wojciech P dzich, Aleksandra Szeliska, Agnieszka Wierzbi ska ę Cover illustration courtesy of Paweł Kwiatkowskiń ISSN 2191-3528 ISBN 978-3-631-66111-6 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-653-05587-0 (E-Book) DOI 10.3726/978-3-653-05587-0 Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 unported license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © Elżbieta Katarzyna Dzikowska / Agata Handley / Piotr Zawilski (eds.), 2016 Peter Lang – Frankfurt am Main ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙ Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................7 Piotr Zawilski The Łódź War Losses Assessment Committees (Łódzkie komisje szacunkowe strat wojennych) – an undervalued source for research of the Great War in the Łódź region ...........................................................9 Tomasz Walkiewicz Polish military formations of the First World War in documents preserved at the State Archive in Łódź ................................................19 Kamila Pawełczyk-Dura The influence of World War I on the activity of the Russian military and naval clergy .................................................................47 Ionela Zaharia Christian Religious Experiences within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Great War ......................................................................................59 Anna Caban Archive traces of the drama of war. Sources for investigation into the daily life of inhabitants of cities in the Opole District in the archival fond of the State Archive in Opole .......................................................69 Marek Szczepaniak and Grażyna Tyrchan World war from a local perspective. School chronicles from the border areas of the Province of Posen (Prowincja Poznańska) as a source of information .........................................................................................93 Tomasz Matuszak The organization and the operations of the League of Women of the War Emergency Service ................................................................ 107 Sławomir Jan Maksymowicz East Prussia as the only province of the German Empire occupied during the Great War. Wartime histories of East Prussia ................................... 125 6 Contents Magdalena Żakowska Ivan and aria for the dying world. The image of Russia in the propaganda of the central powers during the Great War ................................... 147 Frank M. Schuster Between paralysis, crisis and renewal: The effects of the war on the polyhedral industrial city of Łódź (1914–1918)....................................... 163 Marcos Silber Jews, Poles and Germans in Łódź during the Great War: Hegemony via Acknowledgment and/or Negation of Multiple Cultures ............................ 177 Krzysztof Paweł Woźniak Betrayed twice. The German community in the Kingdom of Poland during the Great War .............................................................................. 201 Andrea Brait War museums at the former frontline between Austria-Hungary and Italy during World War I ................................................................................... 217 Hassan A. Jamsheer The Middle East and the Centenary of the Great War ....................................... 231 Bibliography ............................................................................................................. 243 Author Biographies ................................................................................................. 283 Introduction The Great War in local perspectives in the Central Europe The study of publications related to the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War may give the impression that in the European cultural memory the experience related to the events in the west of the continent is more vivid than the experience related to East-Central Europe. Moreover, it may seem that