Lviv – Wrocław, Cities in Parallel? : : Myth, Memory and Migration, c. 1890-Present /

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

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 beca...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Blacker, Uilleam,
Bodnar, Halyna,
Dyak, Sofia,
Fellerer, Jan,
Fowler, Mayhill C.,
Holzer-Kawałko, Anna,
Kotyńska, Katarzyna,
Kunicki, Mikołaj,
Pabjan, Barbara,
Purchla, Jacek,
Pyrah, Robert,
Sidorenko, Ewa,
Sroka, Łukasz Tomasz,
Stauter-Halsted, Keely,
Vynnyk, Oksana,
HerausgeberIn:
Fellerer, Jan,
Pyrah, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (364 p.)
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Table of 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

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