Books in the Eastern European Culture, Politics and Societies series

The book offers an opportunity to look at the genesis of national identity as it was constructed in a specific stateless and multicultural context through cultural transfer and the impact of the contemporary media. It explores Polish reactions to the Italian Risorgimento.

Apres l'independance de la Pologne en 1918, la jeune litterature polonaise adhere a l'experimentation et l'innovation. Neanmoins, l'histoire de la litterature des femmes reste delaissee. Le livre relit des auteures polonaises de l'entre-deux-guerres et les reintegre dans le canon litteraire, sous l'angle de la philosophie des differences de sexe.

In his work Limit Experiences, Jacek Leociak addresses questions that are fundamental to the twentieth-century experience: How can we represent such traumatic events as the Holocaust? Was Lyotard correct when he claimed that reality had succumbed to the gas chambers? How can we describe the "indescribable"?

This book is a collection of articles on history of social research in Poland. It displays not only the discipline's scholarship but also the society studied, from partition times through the interwar period to the Great Depression, and then from real socialism to the fall of communism and the systemic transformation toward democracy.

The book explores the subject of Ruthenian icons and their changes as well as the discussion on art that unfolded in Ruthenia in the 15th and 16th centuries. It offers an analysis of the icons of the Old Testament and the New Testament Trinity.

This volume reflects the discussions during the Princeton University Conference on Polish-Jewish Studies (April 2015). It focuses on the meaning of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, on Polish politics of memory, and on the developments in researching and teaching Polish-Jewish subjects.

What do we remember from our national past and why? What are the dangers of history being (mis-)appropriated by politicians? The Past in the Present provides a critical analysis of recent disputes over Polish historiography. The author uses theories of Collective Memory as a guideline, and the Polish-German borderlands as his leitmotif.

Polish Literature and the Holocaust (1939-1968) scrutinizes literary and documentary testimonies rooted in that historical, political, and anthropological context and produced during (1939-1945) or after (1945-1968) the extermination of Jews in the Second World War. It overviews belles-lettres, personal document literature, and press publications.

The book deals with the history of Russian philosophy and ideas from the Enlightenment to the religious-philosophical renaissance of the first decade of the 20th century. It provides readers with an exhaustive account of relationships between various Russian thinkers and an examination of how those thinkers relate to a number of figures and trends.

The author undertakes an intellectual journey into the hidden past of the Polish history after 1939. He deals with Holocaust, collaboration, totalitarian rule, crisis of communism in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations during the war. The author is a founding father of a new approach in Holocaust research in Poland.

The authors of this book are critical to gender regimes in the fields of education, work, family life and politics. They are convinced that women and men are faced with different structural opportunities and barriers. Women are faced with significantly less chances to transform and transfer their cultural and social capital into a political one.

The volume brings together a selection of analyses related to the issues of gender and social transition published in the quarterly East European Politics and Societies in the years 1994 to 2006. Articles cover many East Central European countries and apply the lens of gender to politics, law, history, culture and economy.

The book consists of papers of eminent sociologists and political scientists on transition to democracy in East European countries such as Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, ex-Yugoslavia and Romania. The topics include collaboration, resistance, peasantry, intellectuals, tradition, nationalism, communist parties, Central Europe and dissidents.

Der Autor analysiert Tagebücher, Erinnerungen, Memoiren, Chroniken, Berichte und Briefe, die während der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs und der deutschen Besatzung im und um das Warschauer Ghetto entstanden. Er untersucht die Gattungsspezifik und den speziellen Status dieser Texte, die das in Worte zu fassen versuchen, was gemeinhin als unbeschreibbar gilt. Der Autor widerspricht der verbreiteten These von der Unausdrückbarkeit. Er betont die Notwendigkeit des Ausdrucks jener Erfahrung und die Notwendigkeit des Versuchs zu verstehen.

This book reexamines the situation of Jews who after the liquidation of ghettos were hiding in the villages of the Kielce-Sandomierz region, and the attitude of local Christian people and partisans towards these Jews. A fresh perspective is contributed by the author's anthropological approach to the newly discovered field and archival sources.