Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Lviv – Wrocław, Cities in Parallel? : Myth, Memory and Migration, c. 1890-Present / ed. by Robert Pyrah, Jan Fellerer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9789633863244
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 943.8/52 23
LOC classification:
  • DK508.95.L86 L855 2020
  • DK508.95.L86 L855 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- A Place Called Home? Nation, Locality and the “Parallel” Polish- Ukrainian Histories of Wrocław and Lviv -- Population Movement and the Liberal State: The Polskie Towarzystwo Emigracyjne and the Regulation of Labor Migration from Lviv’s Hinterlands -- Jews in Lviv at the Turn of the 20th Century: On the Road to Modernization -- Beyond National: “Posttraumatic Identity” of Disabled War Veterans in Interwar Lviv -- East Meets West: Polish-German Coexistence in Lower Silesia through the Memories of Polish Expellees, 1945–1947 -- Tylko we Lwowie: Tango, Jazz, and Urban Entertainment in a Multi-ethnic City -- Impressions of Place: Soviet Travel Writings and the Discovery of Lviv, 1939–40 -- Imperfect Metropolis: The Evolving Projections of Wrocław in Polish Feature Films -- The Bu-Ba-Bu and the Reorientation of Ukrainian Culture: The Carnival City and the Palimpsestual Past -- Memory, and Lack of Memory, of Others: The Image of the Jewish and the Polish Neighbor in Oral Reflections of Lviv’s Current Inhabitants -- City, Memory, and Identity: The Case of Wrocław after 1945 -- Contemporary Lviv: Facing the Past—Reinterpreting the Past -- Building Bridges Between Breslau and Wrocław: A Case Study from the European Capital of Culture Initiative, 2016 -- Afterword: Central European Cities as Laboratories of Memory… and Oblivion—Lviv and Wrocław Contrasted -- Index
Summary: After World War II, Europe witnessed the massive redrawing of national borders and the efforts to make the population fit those new borders. As a consequence of these forced changes, both Lviv and Wrocław went through cataclysmic changes in population and culture. Assertively Polish prewar Lwów became Soviet Lvov, and then, after 1991, it became assertively Ukrainian Lviv. Breslau, the third largest city in Germany before 1945, was in turn "recovered" by communist Poland as Wrocław. Practically the entire population of Breslau was replaced, and Lwów's demography too was dramatically restructured: many Polish inhabitants migrated to Wrocław and most Jews perished or went into exile. The forced migration of these groups incorporated new myths and the construction of official memory projects. The chapters in this edited book compare the two cities by focusing on lived experiences and "bottom-up" historical processes. Their sources and methods are those of micro-history and include oral testimonies, memoirs, direct observation and questionnaires, examples of popular culture, and media pieces. The essays explore many manifestations of the two sides of the same coin—loss on the one hand, gain on the other—in two cities that, as a result of the political reality of the time, are complementary.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789633863244

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- A Place Called Home? Nation, Locality and the “Parallel” Polish- Ukrainian Histories of Wrocław and Lviv -- Population Movement and the Liberal State: The Polskie Towarzystwo Emigracyjne and the Regulation of Labor Migration from Lviv’s Hinterlands -- Jews in Lviv at the Turn of the 20th Century: On the Road to Modernization -- Beyond National: “Posttraumatic Identity” of Disabled War Veterans in Interwar Lviv -- East Meets West: Polish-German Coexistence in Lower Silesia through the Memories of Polish Expellees, 1945–1947 -- Tylko we Lwowie: Tango, Jazz, and Urban Entertainment in a Multi-ethnic City -- Impressions of Place: Soviet Travel Writings and the Discovery of Lviv, 1939–40 -- Imperfect Metropolis: The Evolving Projections of Wrocław in Polish Feature Films -- The Bu-Ba-Bu and the Reorientation of Ukrainian Culture: The Carnival City and the Palimpsestual Past -- Memory, and Lack of Memory, of Others: The Image of the Jewish and the Polish Neighbor in Oral Reflections of Lviv’s Current Inhabitants -- City, Memory, and Identity: The Case of Wrocław after 1945 -- Contemporary Lviv: Facing the Past—Reinterpreting the Past -- Building Bridges Between Breslau and Wrocław: A Case Study from the European Capital of Culture Initiative, 2016 -- Afterword: Central European Cities as Laboratories of Memory… and Oblivion—Lviv and Wrocław Contrasted -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

After World War II, Europe witnessed the massive redrawing of national borders and the efforts to make the population fit those new borders. As a consequence of these forced changes, both Lviv and Wrocław went through cataclysmic changes in population and culture. Assertively Polish prewar Lwów became Soviet Lvov, and then, after 1991, it became assertively Ukrainian Lviv. Breslau, the third largest city in Germany before 1945, was in turn "recovered" by communist Poland as Wrocław. Practically the entire population of Breslau was replaced, and Lwów's demography too was dramatically restructured: many Polish inhabitants migrated to Wrocław and most Jews perished or went into exile. The forced migration of these groups incorporated new myths and the construction of official memory projects. The chapters in this edited book compare the two cities by focusing on lived experiences and "bottom-up" historical processes. Their sources and methods are those of micro-history and include oral testimonies, memoirs, direct observation and questionnaires, examples of popular culture, and media pieces. The essays explore many manifestations of the two sides of the same coin—loss on the one hand, gain on the other—in two cities that, as a result of the political reality of the time, are complementary.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2022)

Previous
Back to results
Next
Close