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Editorial on Nipah Virus: A Looming Threat

Greetings from Spinalonga! The Island of Silence in social photo and the culture of memory on Instagram

In modern narratives, the island of Spinalonga appears an attractive tourist destination with an interesting and enigmatic history. In fact, Spinalonga is a memory space, encumbered with past political decisions and med…

Pop-Holocaust(s)? Potential and Challenges of Pop Cultural Representations in the 21st Century

Ambivalence as an Attempt to Regain Authenticity in the Shoah Representation. The Example of Arnošt Goldflam

The starting point for this research is the crisis in discourse and pedagogy related to the representation of the Holocaust, as well as the crisis of empathy in its perception, signaled by, among others, Ernst van Alphe…

The Subversive Potential of Laughter in Hinko Gottlieb's Ključ od velikih vrata [The Key to the Great Gate]

This paper focuses on a short work of fiction written in the 1940s by the Croatian Jew, Hinko Gottlieb. The manuscript of the book was found in one of the Jerusalem archives and,about seventy years later was, prepared f…

The Holocaust between Pop Literature and High Literature: Maxim Biller's Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz

Maxim Biller, one of the most prominent, but also most controversial German-Jewish authors, is an important figure in modern Holocaust literature. After a short introduction to his early journalistic and literary oeuvre…

The "Archaeology" of Popular Culture: Common Sense and the Past

This paper demonstrates the influence of common sense on the perception of facts from the past. In order to understand the mechanisms of reduction, instrumentalisation and banalisation of the Holocaust in popular cultur…

Between Freedom and Imprisonment. The Shanghai Ghetto from the Perspective of the Bulgarian Writer Angel Wagenstein

Angel Wagenstein's novel Farewell, Shanghai is this article's focal point. The attention focuses on the literary picture of the Shanghai ghetto (Hongkew district) during the Second World War. Wagenstein shows the ghetto…

The Past in the (Lost) Memory of the Roma

This study uses authentic interviews from field research into the Roma people of Slovakia to search for partial answers to questions concerning the functioning of collective and individual memory of the marginalised eth…

Takis Würgers Roman Stella (2019) - Holocaustliteratur einer neuen Generation?

Takis Würger's novel Stella, published in 2019, has received mostly unenthusiastic reviews from literary critics because, in their opinion, it does not do justice to Stella Goldschlag's historical persona. Rather, the t…

"Mr Hitler," Greta Garbo and the Jew Hidden in the Grass. The Literary Representation of the Holocaust in Ruth Tannenbaum by Miljenko Jergović

This article is an attempt to provide an insight into the fate of the Jewish diaspora in Zagreb, a city marked by the spectre of the Second World War. The events in the diegetic world are based on the fictionalised, tra…

Elements of Folk Pragmatics in Bosnian Proverbs

This paper discusses the views on pragmatic subjects explicitly mentioned or implied in Bosnian folk proverbs. For the purposes of the research, three collections of proverbs were analyzed: Narodno blago by M. K. Ljubuš…

History and Literature in the Historical Novels of Ksaver Šandor Gjalski

The paper begins by asserting that the historical novels of Ksaver Šandor Gjalski have received special treatment in Croatian literary historiography, which tends to ascribe to them a more a documentary and historiograp…

Lexical and Grammatical Characteristics of the Belarusian Translation of Chapter 1 and 2 of The Gospel of Matthew (Catholic and Orthodox Editions, 2017)

This article provides a comparative analysis of certain lexical and grammatical peculiarities in the Catholic and Orthodox editions of the Belarusian translation of Chapters 1 and 2 of the Gospel of Matthew in the New T…

Several Narrative Strategies in Yiddish and Czech Stories

This article deals with six short stories written in Yiddish and Czech analyzing their narrative strategies. In The German by Sholem Aleichem the limited first-person perspective of the story makes it impossible to look…

Fan-Fiction, Liebesgeschichten, Erzählungen über Deportationen und Konzentrationslager: Eine Skizze zur digitalen Literatur über den Holocaust und Nationalsozialismus auf der Online-Plattform Wattpad

E-book platforms, such as Wattpad (wattpad.com) offer authors and readers, often rather young, the opportunity to publish their own stories on a wide varietyof topics and in different genre categories, e.g., fanfiction,…

Holocaust Emotion Cards: Project Presentation

The purpose of this article is to present the project Holocaust Emotion Cards, which was created as part of the course Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Holocaust Memory, run by Western Galilee College. In the first p…

Polyphony. Polish, Czech and Slovak Texts about the Holocaust

Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction. Eds. Elisa-Maria Hiemer, Jiří Holý, Agata Firlej, Hana Nichtburgerová. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2021, 514 s. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671056

South-North: fate and mission. Remembrance of Prof. Vera Mitrinović

Vera Mitrinović

Translator, Not Adapter. Remembrance of Leszek Engelking (1955-2022)

Leszek Engelking

Reproductive Health of Women: a comprehensive review

Full access to sexual and reproductive health is a fundamental human right. Women and girls around the world, especially those living in poverty, have little or no access to reproductive health and rights information an…

To evaluate the impact of aspirin in prevention of coronary artery disease in superspeciality hospital Jalandhar Punjab, India

Introduction: Coronary artery disease (CAD), a prevalent cardiovascular ailment, arises from the gradual accumulation of fatty deposits, cholesterol, and other substances within the coronary arteries - the blood vessels…

Objectivity according to Lacaze-Duthiers

We celebrated in 2021 the bicentenary of Lacaze-Duthiers. In this paper, we will focus on the epistemology of Lacaze-Duthiers by showing how the relationship to knowl­edge is part of history, evolves over time and also…

The biology and biomineralogy of the red coral: the Lacaze-Duthiers legacy

In the early 1860s, Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Natural Sciences, then a professor of zoology at the University of Lille and later at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, was entrusted w…

A tool to promote experimental zoology at the end of the 19th century: the creation of the "Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale"

1872, France. An eminent zoologist of the time, Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, rea­lises one of his most important goals: he creates a new journal, focused on zoological discover­ies, which he calls "Archives de Zoologie Exp…