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Beyond the Trenches – the Social and Cultural Impact of the Great War GESCHICHTE - ERINNERUNG - POLITIK STUDIES in HISTORY, MEMORY and POLITICS Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik 19 19 Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik 19 .) Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska / Agata G. Handley / Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska / / Piotr Zawilski (eds.) Agata G. Handley / Beyond the Trenches – Piotr Zawilski (eds.) The Social and Cultural Impact Piotr Zawilski (eds Piotr Zawilski of the Great War / This collection of articles is the outcome The Editors Beyond the Trenches – of extensive investigations into archival Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska is Profes- materials, concerning the involvement sor Emeritus in the Institute of German Philology, University of Łódz´. The main of various nations in the Great War. The Dzikowska Katarzyna The Social authors analyse the wartime experiences areas of her academic research include: of individuals and local communities, German 20th century literature, Pol- as well as whole nations. They offer a ish-German comparative literature and and Cultural Impact gender issues. closer, more personal view of the impact Elz˙bieta Agata G. Handley of the Great War. The book re-constructs Agata G. Handley is Assistant Professor individual war narratives, and studies the in the Department of Philology at the of the Great War long-term consequences of the conflict. University of Łódz´. The main areas of her The result is a multifaceted portrayal of academic interests are contemporary the war, seen from local and international British and Canadian Literature, and Second Edition perspectives. British culture with a special emphasis on the English North. Piotr Zawilski is Director of the State Archive in Łódz´ and former Director of the State Archive in Piotrków Trybunalski. He is the Vice-President of the Associa- Edition Second tion of Polish Archivists. Cultural the War of Great Impact Beyond the Trenches – The Social and the Trenches Beyond ISBN 978-3-631-80258-8 GEP 19_280258_Zawilski_AM_A5HC PLE. Q2 new.indd 1 16.03.20 19:52 Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik 19 19 Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik 19 Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska / Agata G. Handley / Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska/ Piotr Zawilski (eds.) / Agata G. Handley/ Beyond the Trenches – Piotr Zawilski (eds.) The Social and Cultural Impact of the Great War (eds.) Piotr Zawilski / This collection of articles is the outcome The Editors Beyond the Trenches – of extensive investigations into archival Elz˙bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska is Profes- materials, concerning the involvement sor Emeritus in the Institute of German Philology, University of Łódz´. The main of various nations in the Great War. The Dzikowska Katarzyna The Social authors analyse the wartime experiences areas of her academic research include: of individuals and local communities, German 20th century literature, Pol- as well as whole nations. They offer a ish-German comparative literature and and Cultural Impact gender issues. closer, more personal view of the impact Elz˙bieta Agata G. Handley of the Great War. The book re-constructs Agata G. Handley is Assistant Professor individual war narratives, and studies the in the Department of Philology at the of the Great War long-term consequences of the conflict. University of Łódz´. The main areas of her The result is a multifaceted portrayal of academic interests are contemporary the war, seen from local and international British and Canadian Literature, and Second Edition perspectives. British culture with a special emphasis on the English North. Piotr Zawilski is Director of the State Archive in Łódz´ and former Director of the State Archive in Piotrków Trybunalski. He is the Vice-President of the Associa- Edition Second tion of Polish Archivists. Cultural the War of Great Impact Beyond the Trenches – The Social and the Trenches Beyond GEP 19_280258_Zawilski_AM_A5HC PLE. Q2 new.indd 1 16.03.20 19:52 Beyond the Trenches – The Social and Cultural Impact of the Great War GESCHICHTE - ERINNERUNG - POLITIK STUDIES IN HISTORY, MEMORY AND POLITICS Herausgegeben von / Edited by Anna Wolff-Pow ska & Piotr Forecki ę Bd./Vol. 19 El bieta Katarzyna Dzikowska / Agata G. Handley / ż Piotr Zawilski (eds.) Beyond the Trenches – The Social and Cultural Impact of the Great War Second Edition 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 A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the Open Access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org This publication was financed by a grant from The Head Office of the State Archives in Warsaw. Translators: Zofia Piwowarska, Marta Moraczewska, Wojciech P dzich, Aleksandra Szeliska, Agnieszka Wierzbi ska ę Technical Editor: Karolina Goławska ń Reviewers: prof. Hans-Jurgen Boemelburg, prof. Krystyna Radziszewska Cover illustration: Courtesy of the State Archive in Łód ź ISSN 2191-3528 ISBN 978-3-631-71638-0 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-631-72080-6 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-631-72081-3 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-3-631-72082-0 (MOBI) DO I 10.3726/b11002 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 G. Handley / Piotr Zawilski (eds.), 2017 Peter Lang Edition is an Imprint of Peter Lang GmbH. Peter Lang – Berlin ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙ Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Contents Introduction ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 7 Introduction to the Second Edition ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� 9 Piotr Zawilski The Łódź War Losses Assessment Committees – an undervalued source for research into the Great War in the Łódź region ����������������������������������11 Tomasz Walkiewicz Polish military formations of the First World War in documents preserved at the State Archive in Łódź �������������������������������������������������������������������21 Kamila Pawełczyk-Dura The influence of World War I on the activity of the Russian military and naval clergy ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������49 Ionela Zaharia Christian religious experiences within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Great War ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������65 Agata G. Handley Hauntings, Landscapes and Loss in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers ������������77 Anna Caban Archive traces of the drama of war� Sources for investigation into the daily life of the inhabitants of cities in the Opole District in the archival fonds of the State Archive in Opole ���������������������������������������������������������� 93 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 ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������119 Tomasz Matuszak The organization and the operations of the War Alert Women’s League����������135 6 Contents Sławomir Jan Maksymowicz East Prussia as the only province of the German Empire occupied during the Great War� Wartime histories of East Prussia �����������������������������������155 Magdalena Żakowska Ivan and the aria for the dying world� The image of Russia in the propaganda of the central powers during the Great War ����������������������������������� 177 Frank M. Schuster Between paralysis, crisis and renewal: The effects of the war on the polyhedral industrial city of Łódź (1914–1918) �������������������������������������������������� 199 Marcos Silber Jews, Poles, and Germans in Łódź during the Great War: Hegemony via acknowledgment and/or negation of multiple cultures ����������� 219 Krzysztof Paweł Woźniak Betrayed twice� The German community in the Kingdom of Poland during the Great War ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 249 Andrea Brait War museums at the former frontline between Austria-Hungary and Italy during World War I ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 269 Hassan A. Jamsheer The Middle East and the centenary of the Great War ���������������������������������������� 285 Bartosz Górecki Activities of the Łódź Exchange Committee (Komitet Giełdowy Łódzki) in 1914–1918 and their economic, financial, social and political aspects ������������ 299 Author Biographies ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 317 Introduction A survey of publications on the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War may give the impression that the experience of events in the West of the continent is more vivid in European cultural memory than in Eastern-Central Europe� The great battles of the Western Front, fought on the fields of Flanders, near Verdun, or by the Somme, cost thousands of lives and, along with terrifying
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