This volume examines the Transylvanian Saxon experiment with eugenics during the interwar years, 1919 to 1940, beginning with Transylvania's union with Romania. It focuses on the life and work of
The memoir - complemented with a detailed family tree - presents the interwoven links of the Kornfeld, Weiss, Chorin and Herzog families, the giants of prewar Hungarian capitalism.
Vermes presents students, academics, researchers, and general-interest readers with an investigation of the Hungarian culture and politics from a variety of points of view in the period from 1711 to 1
This report focuses on the human rights abuses associated with the CIAs post-September 11, 2001 secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It documents the secret detention of detainees
With an emphasis on Russian and Eastern European popular culture, Goscilo and Hashamova examine the various cultural, political and ideological representations of Slavic and Balkan women in war-torn l
Based on research and scholarship associated with the European Cooperation in Science and Technology COST A30 Action East of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda , a
This volume contains 16 papers from an eponymous November 2007 conference concerned with the nature, dynamics, and consequences of Stalinism in Eastern and Central Europe. Looking over the broadly com
Miller (history, Central European U. and Russian Academy of Sciences) thought he was through with the nationalism question after his 2000 book on the Ukraine. Well, an article here and there could mop
The 12th-century chronicle of the reign of Duke Boleslaw III and his ancestors is presented for the first time in English in a side-by-side translation with the Latin original. An introduction describ
Expanding the horizon of accounts of art under communism, The Green Bloc uncovers the history of artistic engagement with the natural environment in the Eastern Bloc.
"'As Simple as Burek' is a saying current among young people in Slovenia. But in his book, Jernej Mleku holds just the opposite. The burek--a pie made of pastry dough filled with various fillings, wel
This anthology collects scholarly essays, together with reports and position papers from various United Nations bodies and other organizations, in an effort to provide a broad picture of international
The monograph describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cultural capital of the Golden Age of the Belarusian past (17th century) competes with the `nation' i
At the very time when Czech leaders were experimenting with alternatives to the Soviet model of socialism that led to the Prague Spring, says Bracke (modern European history, U. of Glasgow), western c
The problem is not that Bulgaria has been neglected by the field of historical demographics, says Todorova, a specialist in the history of the modern Balkans, but that it has been lumped together with
Scholars of the social sciences and humanities, along with a few practicing politicians, set forth the factors that lead them to believe that Europe is or can become a single entity, including some fa
This book describes how former Ottoman Empire Muslims were transformed into citizens of Balkan nation-states and became national minorities, focusing on southern Bulgaria (the former Eastern Rumel
Drawing on the voices of real people from interviews, this book details Jewish cultural autonomy in interwar Estonia and looks at how the lives of Jews of Estonia changed before and after WWII and
Curious about malaria’s presumed responsibility for Greece’s economic backwardness, Gardikas examines the country’s disease vis-a-vis its social and physical environment at a time estimated to have
"This book sets out to discuss what has been termed as the 'second Cold War,' that is, the deterioration of superpower-relations in the late 1970s and 1980s. Its goal is to present the European perspe
Inspired by the work of Soviet-born Canadian sociologist Zaslavsky (1937-2009), social scientists analyze Eastern Europe, particularly the Soviet societies and their difficult "transition" after th
A result of an international conference held in November 2012 at the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe within the framework of the research group “Legal Cultures in
This book documents the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the
Pesthy-Simon explores martyrdom as a voluntary human sacrifice in the Jewish and Greco-Roman milieu that generated early Christian martyrdom. Human sacrifices were originally addressed to the divi
Refusing to take either the nationalist Romanian and the Russian/Soviet perspective on the dynamics of the "Bessarabian question" at face value, Cusco argues that the symbolic competition over Bes
This study analyzes theater in three former Eastern Bloc countries. It demonstrates how theater of the period avoided censorship to criticize politics and totalitarianism through the use of irony,
"This book consists of historical photographs and related text documenting the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind
"The present volume, In Search of Better Times : Myth and Memory in Eastern and Central Europe, brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking from the nineteenth century to
"This is a history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus', located in the heart of central Europe. At the present, when it is fashionable to speak of
Philosophy, political science, geography, urban studies, and urban design are among the disciplines represented as contributors explore the interplay between space--as the concept is now used in the s
Broken Masculinities portrays the post-dictatorial novel of the 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to a 1968-era Turkey, a period which challenges Turkey's now reinforced Islamic i
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary, international conferences were held in Washington, DC in March 2014 and Budapest in April 2014. From those conferences, 12 scholarly pa
Leading and junior scholars of the Balkans in such disciplines as history, cultural linguistics, musicology, film studies, and political science showcase current research in those fields and provide a
This study investigates the intellectual movement of educated knights during the 12th and 13th centuries. Some areas explored are knighthood and literacy, the Latin skills of Anglo-Norman knights,
In an analysis of the cultural experience in Ukraine's eastern borderlands, Zaharchenko portrays the region's many frontiers as elements of a natural and complex continuum. She roots this approach in
This is an analysis of 166 original and previously unpublished documents dating from the very first mention of a Gypsy in 1401 up to the year 1765. These documents range from royal decrees thru lawsui
The manuscript known as the Hungarian Angevin Legendary, made for Hungarian royal patrons, is an extraordinary relic of medieval book illumination. Dispersed in four countries and six collections, the
Halemba explores what responses to the vision of the Virgin Mary by two girls in a meadow called Dzhublyk in 2002 reveal about the status of Christianity and the church in Catholic Transcarpathia. In
