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Izraelský Kaleidoskop
Kaleidoscope of Israel Notes from a travel log Jitka Radkovičová - Tiki 1 Contents Autumn 2013 3 Maud Michal Beer 6 Amira Stern (Jabotinsky Institute), Tel Aviv 7 Yael Diamant (Beit ‑Haedut), Nir Galim 9 Tel Aviv and other places 11 Muzeum Etzel 13 Intermezzo 14 Chava a Max Livni, Kiryat Ti’von 14 Kfar Hamakabi 16 Beit She’arim 18 Alexander Zaid 19 Neot Mordechai 21 Eva Adorian, Ma’ayan Zvi 24 End of the first phase 25 Spring 2014 26 Jabotinsky Institute for the second time 27 Shoshana Zachor, Kfar Saba 28 Maud Michal Beer for the second time 31 Masada, Brit Trumpeldor 32 Etzel Museum, Irgun Zvai Leumi Muzeum, Tel Aviv 34 Kvutsat Yavne and Beit ‑Haedut 37 Ruth Bondy, Ramat Gan 39 Kiryat Tiv’on again 41 Kfar Ruppin (Ruppin’s village) 43 Intermezzo — Searching for Rudolf Menzeles (aka Mysteries remains even after seventy years) 47 Neot Mordechai for the second time 49 Yet again Eva Adorian, Ma’ayan Zvi and Ramat ha ‑Nadiv 51 Věra Jakubovič, Sde Nehemia — or Cross the Jordan 53 Tel Hai 54 Petr Erben, Ashkelon 56 Conclusion 58 2 Autumn 2013 Here we come. I am at the check ‑in area at the Prague airport and I am praying pleadingly. I have heard so many stories about the tough boys from El Al who question those who fly to Israel that I expect nothing less than torture. It is true that the tough boy seemed quite surprised when I simply told him I am going to look for evidence concerning pre ‑war Czechoslovak scout Jews in Israeli archives. -
1 Performance Beyond Borders in Twenty-First Century Prague: Topography of a New Theatre-Making Context Rebecca Mcfadden Goldsmi
Performance Beyond Borders in Twenty-first Century Prague: Topography of a New Theatre-Making Context Rebecca McFadden Goldsmiths, University of London PhD Theatre and Performance 1 I hereby declare that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Rebecca McFadden 2 Abstract Within the framework of the sociology of theatre, this thesis explores the current performance-making landscape of Prague, mapping the emergence of the nové divadlo (new theatre) movement since 2000. An examination of the historical development of Czech theatre foregrounds the discussion of contemporary practice, charting its changing social-political role in domestic and international contexts. Theatre’s significance in forging an ethnolinguistically defined national consciousness is considered as a legacy that continues to impact the field. Theatrical values originating in the nineteenth-century national revival are traced through the interwar avant-garde, dissident small theatre movement of the 1960s and auteur’s theatre of the 1970s and 1980s. The Velvet Revolution of 1989 and theatre artists’ contributions to the defeat of communism are considered as catalysing a period of self-reflexivity, as theatres grappled with new logistical infrastructures and faced a crisis of purpose both dramaturgical and social in scope. These changes are framed by discussion of the divergent visions of the country’s future posited by Václav Havel and Václav Klaus throughout the 1990s, as well as tensions surrounding European Union ascension and other globalizing processes. A close examination of the nové divadlo infrastructure that has arisen in the past twenty years identifies the strategies by which this faction of the field has forged a third theatre- making space, distinct from either the repertory system or the pre-revolution avant-garde. -
„Głos Ludu” — Gazeta Mniejszości Polskiej Na Zaolziu 31
T. XVIII (2015) Z. 2 (38) ROCZNIK ISSN 1509-1074 HISTORII PRASY POLSKIEJ Głos Ludu — a newspaper „Głos Ludu” of the Polish minority — gazeta in Zaolzies mniejszości polskiej na Zaolziu Katedra Slavistiky Odděleni polonistiky Urszula Ostravska univerzita v Ostravě Reálni 3 KOLBEROVÁ CZ 701 03 Ostrava e-mail: [email protected] KEY WORDS: SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: Polish press in Czechoslovakia (the Czech polskojęzyczna prasa, „Głos Ludu”, Zaolzie, Republic) in 1945–2012, Zaolzie (the Czech part Republika Czeska of the historic Duchy of Cieszyn), Głos Ludu ABSTRACT ABSTRAKT This is an account of the history of Głos Ludu Artykuł przybliża historię „Głosu Ludu” [People’s Voice] in 1945–2012. It is divided w latach 1945–2012 z wyszczególnieniem into four sections which deal in turn with the okresów w dziejach pisma, jak: pierwsze fi rst ten years of the paper (1945–1955), the lata gazety (1945–1955), okres pierwszych phase of halfhearted post-Stalinist liberalization liberalizacji (1956–1969), lata „normalizacji” (1956–1969), the period of ‘normalization’ in społecznej (1969–1989) i „Głos Ludu” jako the aftermath of the Prague Spring (1969–1989), periodyk niepartyjny (1990–2012), artykuł and its reinvention as a paper with no party przybliża charakter gazety i najważniejsze affi liation. The article sketches the profi le of Głos zmiany, jakie zaszły w piśmie na Ludu and chronicles the major changes that it has przestrzeni lat. gone through since 1945. 30 ARTYKUŁY I ROZPRAWY Streszczenie Artykuł przybliża historię „Głosu Ludu” obejmującą lata 1945–2012 z wyszczególnieniem okresów w dzie- jach pisma, którym towarzyszy analiza danego okresu i przemian dotyczących gazety. -
Whole Dissertation Hajkova 3
Abstract This dissertation explores the prisoner society in Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto, a transit ghetto in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Nazis deported here over 140, 000 Czech, German, Austrian, Dutch, Danish, Slovak, and Hungarian Jews. It was the only ghetto to last until the end of Second World War. A microhistorical approach reveals the dynamics of the inmate community, shedding light on broader issues of ethnicity, stratification, gender, and the political dimension of the “little people” shortly before they were killed. Rather than relegating Terezín to a footnote in narratives of the Holocaust or the Second World War, my work connects it to Central European, gender, and modern Jewish histories. A history of victims but also a study of an enforced Central European society in extremis, instead of defining them by the view of the perpetrators, this dissertation studies Terezín as an autarkic society. This approach is possible because the SS largely kept out of the ghetto. Terezín represents the largest sustained transnational encounter in the history of Central Europe, albeit an enforced one. Although the Nazis deported all the inmates on the basis of their alleged Jewishness, Terezín did not produce a common sense of Jewishness: the inmates were shaped by the countries they had considered home. Ethnicity defined culturally was a particularly salient means of differentiation. The dynamics connected to ethnic categorization and class formation allow a deeper understanding of cultural and national processes in Central and Western Europe in the twentieth century. The society in Terezín was simultaneously interconnected and stratified. There were no stark contradictions between the wealthy and majority of extremely poor prisoners. -
Czech Literature Guide
CZECH CZECH LITERATURE LITERATURE GUIDE GUIDE GUIDE LITERATURE CZECH CZECH LITERATURE GUIDE Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic © Institut umění – Divadelní ústav (Arts and Theatre Institute) First edition ISBN 978-80-7008-272-0 All rights of the publication reserved CONTENT ABOUT THE CZECH REPUBLIC 12 A CONCISE HISTORY OF CZECH LITERATURE 13 LITERATURE 1900–45 13 LITERATURE AFTER 1945 13 CONTEMPORARY CZECH LITERATURE 1995–2010 20 PROSE 20 POETRY 26 ESSAY 31 LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 37 THE BOOK MARKET 41 THE TEACHING OF WRITING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC 48 CONTEMPORARY LITERARY LIFE 51 ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS 51 LITERARY AND BOOK AWARDS 56 FESTIVALS AND FAIRS 58 EDUCATION 59 LEGISLATION AND LITERARY AGENCIES 62 LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES 63 GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 65 LITERARY CAFÉS AND TEA-ROOMS 68 ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSHOPS 71 MEDIA 77 LITERARY PERIODICALS 77 CZECH LITERATURE ON THE WEB 82 LITERARY PROGRAMMES ON TV 83 LITERARY PROGRAMMES ON RADIO 83 CZECH LITERATURE ABROAD 87 VARIOUS LINKS 87 OVERVIEW OF FOREIGN CZECH STUDIES SCHOLARS, TRANSLATORS AND FRIENDS OF CZECH CULTURE 87 DEAR READERS WITH AN INTEREST IN CZECH LITERATURE Allow us to draw your attention to our Czech Literature Guide. It presents a panorama of the contemporary life of Czech literature with a short historical overview. It has been produced for everyone who has an interest in understanding Czech literary culture and its milieu, from the specialist and scholarly to the active and practical. 11 ABOUT THE CZECH REPUBLIC CZECH LITERATURE GUIDE 12 ABOUT THE CZECH REPUBLIC The Czech Republic (CR) is a landlocked country The GDP per capita in CZK in 2010 was 361,986 with a territory of 78,865 m2 lying in the centre (exchange rate EUR 1 = CZK 24.5) and the infl ation of Europe. -
Veronika Pehe Socialism Remembered: Cultural Nostalgia
Veronika Pehe Socialism Remembered: Cultural Nostalgia, Retro, and the Politics of the Past in the Czech Republic, 1989-2014 UCL Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2 I, Veronika Pehe, confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. 3 Abstract This thesis explores the political dimensions of representing history through literature, film, and television, offering a wide-ranging analysis of the cultural responses to the period of state socialism in the Czech Republic after the collapse of the former Eastern Bloc. Unlike in Germany, where the memory of the period from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall has largely been discussed in terms of nostalgia, in the Czech case there is little evidence for nostalgia for either the utopian impulse of the socialist project or its everyday aspects. This research thus challenges nostalgia as one of the main paradigms for the remembrance of the socialist period in the former Eastern Bloc and demonstrates that in the Czech context, an aesthetic fascination with the past is not at odds with, but in fact reinforces an anti-communist rejection of the politics of socialism. My contention is that the object of remembrance in cultural production in the Czech Republic is not the period of state socialism itself, but rather a narrative of its overcoming through resistance and heroism. The retrospective handling of the past through cultural texts and practices hinges on a narrative of progress from the period of socialism to liberal democracy, which ultimately serves to legitimate the present political order. -
BOHUMIL HRABAL (1914-97) Papers from a Symposium
BOHUMIL HRABAL (1914-97) Papers from a Symposium Edited by DAVID SHORT School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London 2004 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) https://archive.org/details/SSEES0029 BOHUMIL HRABAL (1914-97) Papers from a Symposium Edited by DAVID SHORT School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London BOHUMIL HRABAL (1914-97) Papers from a Symposium Edited by DAVID SHORT School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London 2004 BOHUMIL HRABAL (1914-97) Papers from a Symposium EDITED BY DAVID SHORT School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London © School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 2004 SSEES Occasional Papers No. 63 ISBN: 0-903425-74-2 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any other form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior permision of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. Copies of this publication and others in the School’s refereed series of Occasional Papers can be obtained from the Publications Office, SSEES-UCL, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Printed by Q3 Print Project Management Ltd, Loughborough, Leics Contents Editor’s note and Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Contributors ix Introduction 1 David Short Towards a Typology of Hrabal’s Intertextuality: Bohumil Hrabal and Giuseppe Ungaretti 11 David Chirico Bohumil Hrabal and the Corporeality of the Word 35 Zuzana Stolz-Hladka Hrabal and Boudnik — a Fateful Friendship 51 Martin Pilar Fun and Games with Montage: the Individual Case of Hrabal’s to to mesto je ve spolecne peci obyvatel 59 David Short The Avant-garde, Experience and Narration in Bohumil Hrabal’s Obsluhoval jsem anglickeho krale 83 Tim Beasley-Murray Hrabal’s Autobiographical Trilogy 97 Robert B. -
Poezja Zaolziańska Czy Poezja Na Zaolziu? Zarys Problematyki
„Kwartalnik Opolski” 2015, 2/3 Krystyna NOWAK-WOLNA Poezja zaolziańska czy poezja na Zaolziu? Zarys problematyki Moja wierna mowo, służyłem tobie. Co noc stawiałem przed tobą miseczki z kolorami, żebyś miała i brzozę i konika polnego i gila zachowanych w mojej pamięci. […] Moja wierna mowo, może to jednak ja muszę ciebie ratować. Więc będę dalej stawiać przed tobą miseczki z kolorami jasnymi i czystymi jeżeli to możliwe, bo w nieszczęściu potrzebny jakiś ład czy piękno. Czesław Miłosz, Moja wierna mowo, Berkeley 1968 Wstęp „Zaolzie jest niewielką enklawą nadgraniczną co najmniej trzech kultur etnicznych wzajemnie się zderzających, rozwijających i wzbogacających, szczególnie we współcześnie tworzących się zrębach euroregionów. Właśnie tutaj, w czeskiej części dawnego Cieszyńskiego, żyje około pięćdziesięcioty- sięczna społeczność z bogatą spuścizną kultury duchowej i materialnej z etnicznie polskim rodowodem” – czytamy we wstępie do „Kawiarenki «Pod Pegazem» 1989 – 2002”1. 1 J. Pyszko, Legenda Kawiarenki „Pod Pegazem”, [w:] idem, Kawiarenka „Pod Pegazem” 1989 -2002, s.11. Poezja zaolziańska czy … 26 W wyniku złożonej sytuacji politycznej po I wojnie światowej, upadku mo- narchii austrowęgierskiej, odzyskania niepodległości przez Polskę i powstania Czechosłowacji, pojawił się problem przynależności państwowej Śląska Cieszyńskiego. Ostatecznie Rada Ambasadorów 28 lipca 1920 r. zadecydowała o podziale tej części Śląska między Rzeczpospolitą Polską a Czechosłowację, co spowodowało, że poza granicami państwa polskiego znalazło się ponad sto tysięcy Polaków oraz główne ośrodki życia polskiego takie, jak: Jabłonków, Frysztat i Orłowa. Również stolica regionu, Cieszyn, została podzielona; jej starsza, historyczna część, pozostawała po stronie polskiej, natomiast część nowsza, bardziej przemysłowa, usytuowała się na lewym brzegu Olzy – za Olzą. Chcąc zachować swoją tożsamość narodową w granicach Cze- chosłowacji, ludność polska utworzyła nowy ośrodek kulturalny – Czeski Cie- szyn. -
דפי קשר 86 אנגלית אפריל 2019.Indd
ISSUE No. 86 April 2019 Dapei Kesher Beit Theresienstadt Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association 80 years since establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia THERESIENSTADT MARTYRS REMEMBRANCE ASSOCIATION At Beit Theresienstadt IN THIS ISSUE AT beit Theresinstadt 2 The Education Center 10 Yours 3 Eighty years since establishment of the Protectorate Whole Framents 2 4 of Bohemia and Moravia / Dr. Margalit Shlain 12 To seek light from knowledge of darkness / Tal Bashan 5 The cat Kuchichka (in memory of Esther Vider) News from Beit Theresienstadt 6 / Dorit Vidar 14 Torch Lighters - The 2019 The Heroic Hamburg Kapo Willy Brachmann Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day / Dr. Anna Hajkova 15 Ceremony 8 Editors: Beit Theresienstadt team; Design: Studio Orni Drori, Haifa; Photography: Beit Theresienstadt team Translation: Rachel Kessel Coming up events April 3rd 2019 at Ein HaHoresh Theater May 17th 2019 at Beit Theresienstadt A fundraising event The International Meeting of the Theresienstadt Martyrs Screening of the film "Back to the Fatherland" and a Remembrance Association panel with the directors of the film The conference will be hosted by Michel Kichka Prosperity Flourishing Growth The Beit Theresienstadt team wish you a Happy Passover ! Truda Groag, Theresienstadt 2 Newsletter THERESIENSTADT MARTYRS REMEMBRANCE ASSOCIATION Yours, Tami To all members and friends of Beit Theresienstadt The year 2019 has brought The current issue of Dapei Kesher includes various subjects with it good tidings for Beit – a signal from the past is provided by an article written by Theresienstadt – the Ministry Dorit Vider, daughter of Max and Esther (Dita) Vider, among of Education has finally begun the founders of Beit Theresienstadt. -
The Fortress Town of Terezin, Situated About from Prague in What Is Now the Czech Republic, Became, in 19 Thereisens
Miriam Intrator. Avenues of Intellectual Resistance in the Ghetto Theresienstadt: Escape Through the Ghetto Central Library, Reading, Storytelling and Lecturing. A Master’s paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. April, 2003. 97 pages. Advisor: David Carr The Ghetto Theresienstadt served as a façade behind which the Nazis attempted to hide the atrocities they were committing in other ghettos and concentration camps throughout Europe. As a result of its unusual nature, the Nazis sanctioned certain cultural and intellectual activities in the camp. Consequently, there remains a considerable record of the interior lives and personal perspectives of Theresienstadt inmates. Through a close examination of thirty-one Theresienstadt memoirs, diaries and histories, this paper explores the concept of intellectual resistance as a result of participation in some of the camp’s intellectual activities - the library, books, reading, storytelling and lecturing. These activities provided prisoners with a means of keeping their minds and imaginations active and alive, allowing them to temporarily escape from the horror surrounding them, and to maintain hope and strength that would help them to survive. As of yet, no single work in English focuses on this topic. This paper strives to fill that void and to encourage librarians to consider the power of literacy and the significance of their responsibilities, particularly in times of terror or war. Headings: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) – Literary Collections Holocaust, -
Returning to the Past 8
INTRODUCTION Returning to the Past 8 On a tree-lined street in Prague’s upmarket district of Vinohrady, Café Kaaba invites customers to drink a coffee in an interior decorated in ‘Brussels Style’, the late 1950s and early 1960s wave of design that followed the success of the Czechoslovak Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Brussels in 1958. Before enter- ing, Kaaba proudly informs customers of its attitude towards the state social- ist past on its door.1 On a sticker with a crossed-out red circle, where one would often find the symbol of a dog to indicate that pets are not welcome, Kaaba features a crossed-out hammer and sickle. A second sticker displays crossed-out cherries, the symbol of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM), in a clear message that communists are not allowed inside (Figure 0.1). The socialist-era design on show in the café is to be enjoyed not for the political era that gave rise to it, but as one of the many available styles that the free market offers. Though the interior of the café is pleasant, the disclaimer on the door suggests that this should not stimulate nostalgia for how things were in the past. Instead, it turns to an alternative line of Czech history, which sees a continuity of national culture irrespective of political regimes. The message implies a hypothetical projection of the achievements of socialism – its design – without its politics: a state socialism without communists. Such a paradoxical attitude is emblematic of the Czech relationship to state socialism evident in many post-1989 cultural representations of the past and also holds a firm place in public discourse, conducted in the media by politicians, journalists and other commentators, as well as both state and "VELVET RETRO: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture" by Veronika Pehe. -
Litikon 2/2016
Litikon ČaSOPIS PRE VÝSKUM LITERATÚRY JOURNAL FOR LITERATURE RESEARCH Litikon • 2016 • ročník 1 • číslo 2 Hlavný redaktor / Editor-in-Chief PhDr. Dušan Teplan, PhD. Redaktori / Editors PhDr. Jozef Brunclík, PhD., doc. PhDr. Igor Hochel, PhD., Mgr. Martina Taneski, PhD. Redakčná rada / Editorial Board prof. dr hab. Bogusław Bakuła (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu) doc. PaedDr. Kristián Benyovszky, PhD. (Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre) prof. dr hab. Joanna Czaplińska (Uniwersytet Opolski) doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Ján Gavura, PhD. (Prešovská univerzita v Prešove) doc. Mgr. Róbert Gáfrik, PhD. (Slovenská akadémia vied v Bratislave) doc. PhDr. Petr Hrtánek, Ph.D. (Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě) prof. PhDr. Marta Keruľová, PhD. (Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre) doc. Mgr. Magda Kučerková, PhD. (Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre) doc. PhDr. Silvia Lauková, PhD. (Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre) doc. Mgr. Radek Malý, Ph.D. (Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci) doc. PhDr. Libor Martinek, Ph.D. (Slezská univerzita v Opavě) doc. PhDr. Zoltán Rédey, PhD. (Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre) doc. PhDr. Zvonko Taneski, PhD. (Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) prof. PhDr. Anna Valcerová, CSc. (Prešovská univerzita v Prešove) prof. PhDr. Ján Zambor, CSc. (Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) prof. PhDr. Tibor Žilka, DrSc. (Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre) Vydavateľ / Publisher Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Trieda Andreja Hlinku 1, 949 01 Nitra, Slovenská republika Redakcia / Editorial Office Katedra slovenskej literatúry, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Štefánikova 67, 949 74 Nitra, Slovenská republika E-mail: [email protected] Webová stránka: https://litikon.wordpress.com Všetky štúdie sú recenzované. (All articles are peer-reviewed.) Toto číslo vyšlo v decembri 2016.