Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO)
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Małgorzata Hanzl: Jewish Culture and Urban Form. A Case Study of Central Poland before the Holocaust
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Off white. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race. Hrsg. von Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre und James Mark
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Jeffrey Shandler: Homes of the Past. A Lost Jewish Museum. (The Modern Jewish Experience.)
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Aurelia Wyleżyńska: Über nichts schreiben, als was meine Augen sehen. Tagebuch aus dem besetzten Warschau 1939-1944. Hrsg. von Bernhard Hartmann nach der von Grażyna P awlak und Marcin Urynowicz edierten Fassung des Originaltexts
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Landesgeschichte mit und ohne Land. West- und ostdeutsche historische Kommissionen nach 1945. Hrsg. von Mathias Beer
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The Mapping of a Russian War. The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanisław Pachotowiecki (1580). Hrsg von Jakub Niedźwiedź, Karol Lopatecki, and Grzegorz Franczak.
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(Re-) Imagining Hutsuls in the Interwar Period: Type Photographs in Nationalizing East-Central Europe
No full textIn the late Habsburg Empire, type photographs became an important tool to visually order a complex and multicultural landscape of diverse regions. These frontal images not only stereotypized the image of “typical” representatives of a nation but also ascribed social and cultural roles to them. The East Central European follow-up states, in particular Czechoslovakia and Poland, adopted this imperial tool to create new images. Those images were ascribed with new meanings, adjusted to the realities, needs, interests, and concerns of the interwar “nationalizing states” (Rogers Brubaker). This paper focuses on photographic re-presentations of Hutsuls, an ethnographic minority in the Eastern Carpathians. It contrasts official photographic narratives in Czechoslovakia and Poland with approaches by the Ukrainian national movement, who insisted that Hutsuls would constitute and ancient “tribe” of their nation. I advocate the hypothesis that photographs served as equally important tools to communicate “nation” and “ethnicity” as the census or the museum (Benedict Anderson), which could be used to preserve “traditional” images or modernize selected features. Both the nationalizing states and the Ukrainian movement adopted photography in order to propa-gate their specific vision of the region and thereby rebrand it in the light of the new realities of the interwar period.In the late Habsburg Empire, type photographs became an important tool to visually order a complex and multicultural landscape of diverse regions. These frontal images not only stereotypized the image of “typical” representatives of a nation but also ascribed social and cultural roles to them. The East Central European follow-up states, in particular Czechoslovakia and Poland, adopted this imperial tool to create new images. Those images were ascribed with new meanings, adjusted to the realities, needs, interests, and concerns of the interwar “nationalizing states” (Rogers Brubaker). This paper focuses on photographic re-presentations of Hutsuls, an ethnographic minority in the Eastern Carpathians. It contrasts official photographic narratives in Czechoslovakia and Poland with approaches by the Ukrainian national movement, who insisted that Hutsuls would constitute and ancient “tribe” of their nation. I advocate the hypothesis that photographs served as equally important tools to communicate “nation” and “ethnicity” as the census or the museum (Benedict Anderson), which could be used to preserve “traditional” images or modernize selected features. Both the nationalizing states and the Ukrainian movement adopted photography in order to propa-gate their specific vision of the region and thereby rebrand it in the light of the new realities of the interwar period
Denise von Weymarn-Goldschmidt: Von Konkurrenten und Lieblingen. Geschwisterbeziehungen im deutschbaltischen Adel des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
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