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's concluding essay points out that both Poland and Hungary provided West European artists with exotic examples of "Oriens in Occidente." This slim volume presents the fruits of a model scholarly colloquium. The papers are o f uniformly high quality, and Hungary's and Poland's histories lend themselves to com
contributions to society of the featured individuals. Moreover, it considers themes related to history (such as episodes taking place in the ancient past and in modern history) and issues related to current Uyghur society (such as religion, language, education, women’s emancipation, and transmission of values
Germans, although a diaspora of the German national community in Europe, were (in contrast to the much smaller Baltic German element) not a "mobilized diaspora" in terms of education, status attainments, or urbanization. Moreover, the Volga German farmers, although approximately equal in numbers to the
LITHUANIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES 22 2018 ISSN 1392-2343 PP. 210–222 Christine Beresniova, Holocaust Education in Lithuania. Community, Con- flict, and the Making of Civil Society. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. 189 p. ISBN 978-1-4985-3744-5 Christine Beresniova’s Holocaust Education in Lithuania
teacher of Russian history who specializes in the eighteenth century, I am embarrassed when students ask me to recommend such a book. The few respectable biographies of Catherine are obsolete, and the rest range in quality from bad to atrocious. For students who want to go beyond broader surveys of
adaptability to the host culture, which decreased with age; it was measured as a conglomerate of indicators, including the rate of language learning. Important predictors were the amount of prior schooling, the levels of education of the parents, the quality of living accommodation the family has secured, and
beginning writers their craft, Maksim Gorky's influential yet problematic role in fostering young writers, and the creation of the Soviet Union's first literary university in Moscow figure as key episodes in Do- brenko's description of this latter decade. The author also demonstrates the relentless logic of
on cultural identity and ethics – an aspect that will be analysed in a close reading of the famous Cyclops episode, the Cyclopeia, in book nine. Finally, some strands of the complex reception of Homer’s epic will be sketched out in order to show how the poem has been used in colonial contexts and for
(social) environment, 11 a resonance space and a personal counterpart are needed. Thus, in terms of the affective dimension of empathy, the other can function as someone who shares emotions with oneself, whereby the quality of experiencing the commonality in sharing the same feeling, albeit with
comic normalization failed, and except for the pilot no other episode had been aired. Unlike Brooks, the producers of this series did not frame the camp normalization of Hitler but went directly at it. Banalizing, ironizing, or decontextualizing Hitler can be a source of humor, yet apparently only