Lviv - Wroclaw, Cities in Parallel?: Myth, Memory and Migration, c. 1890-Present - Hardcover

 
9789633863237: Lviv - Wroclaw, Cities in Parallel?: Myth, Memory and Migration, c. 1890-Present
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9633863236 ISBN 13: 9789633863237
Verlag: Central European University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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 Wroclaw 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 Wroclaw. Practically the entire population of Breslau was replaced, and Lwów's demography too was dramatically restructured: many Polish inhabitants migrated to Wroclaw 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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert Pyrah is Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford



Robert Pyrah is Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Robert Pyrah is Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

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Verlag
Central European University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9633863236
ISBN 13 
9789633863237
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
364
Herausgeber
Pyrah Robert, Fellerer Jan
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