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The article overviews reading and writing practices presented in the peasant memoirs submitted to competitions of the Institute of Social Economy. The text traces the meaning of these practices while reconstructing the biographies and social engagements of some of the memoirists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jewish youth memoirs given to the Yiddish Scientific Institute in Vilnius in 1932, 1934, and 1939 both build on the competition ideas initiated in 1921 by the Polish Institute of Sociology and maintain their distinctive characteristics associated primarily with the multilingual nature of the documents, the fluidity of the authors’ national selfidentification, and generational cohesion among the writers. Based on a collection of documents kept at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, the article presents the notion of migration as one of the central themes addressed in these records. The analysis demonstrates the key social, political, and personal factors that influenced thoughts about emigration. By outlining similarities and differences among selected memoirs, the author provides a synthetic discussion of migration issues depicted in young people’s writings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the exceptionally rich and important Polish tradition of memoir writing competitions and related publications; in the twentieth century exceeding 1500 such events! From the very beginning, the competitions sparked lively discussions and raised questions about the place of competition memoirs in modern Polish literature. For example, after the publication of Jakub Wojciechowski’s 1930 Życiorys własny robotnika (Autobiography of a Laborer) or the 1935–1936 Pamiętniki chłopów (Peasant Memoirs). The article contextualizes the relationship between personal document and literature while attempting a definition of “folk literature.” Against Andrzej Leder’s notion of “unwritten epic,” the article posits that the thousands of competition memoirs and journals represent a very significant – albeit largely forgotten – component of an epic about civilization and social changes in the twentieth-century Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article delves into Leon Piniński’s academic sympathies and aversions, as manifested in his contributions to Przegląd Polski through the posthumous memoirs of Rudolf von Jhering and Bernhard Windscheid. A shared interest in Roman law and possession as a subject of research interest served as a common ground between Piniński and the memoir protagonists during a certain phase of their academic careers. The 19th-century German legal landscape witnessed a polarization of perspectives on possessio, with Savigny and his followers (including Windscheid) on one side and Jhering on the other. This dichotomy captivated Piniński, leading to his exploration of the subject and the development of his unique concept of possessio. During his foreign sojourns, Piniński wrote a German-language monograph titled Der Thatbestand des Sachbesitzerwerbs nach gemeinem Recht, a work yet to be translated into Polish. The evaluations of Jhering’s and Windscheid’s scholarly output were primarily based on Piniński’s views on the nature of possessio. Additionally, the article paints an intellectual tableau of an era whose accomplishments in the realm of legal research continue to hold relevance in contemporary discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As head of the Editorial Committee of the Pamiętnik Literacko-Naukowy (Science and Literature Memoir), a magazine of the university camp in Grangeneuve (later Fribourg), Adam Vetulani conducted correspondence with General Bronisław Prugar-Ketling on the subject of creating a publication marking the 650th anniversary of the establishment of Switzerland. While he was preparing a selection of texts to be published in Polish, he sent a translation of the Swiss Confederation Act of 1291 to his commander. As Vetulani indicated, it was the first translation of that document into the Polish language. Unfortunately, as described in the present text, the publication did not come to pass and, therefore, neither did the translation of the Bundesbrief of 1291. The only copy discovered so far can be found in the collections of the Central Military Archive in Warsaw. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jan Lewandowski, a professor of history and longtime lecturer at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, recalls his experiences of military service during the communist period. Between 1963 and 1988, he spent a total of more than three quarters of this period in uniform: first as a participant in military training at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, and then as a reserve soldier, called up from time to time for exercises (including martial law). The picture that emerges from the text testifies to the dire condition of the "people's" army in Poland, where shortages of equipment, absurd decisions by commanders and almost ubiquitous incompetence were an everyday occurrence. In this situation, it was mainly a sense of humour that helped to survive the difficult time of service. Numerous anecdotes circulating among the soldiers helped them unwind from the unpleasant moments, and, as the author writes, "pushed aside the moral dilemmas" which resulted from the awareness that "military training is first and foremost about learning to kill other people." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article aims to present previously unpublished memoirs of mathematician Franciszek Leja, spanning the years 1885-1958 - from his birth to his participation in the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh. Leja recalls the childhood of a peasant son struggling with poverty, his education at the folk school in Grodzisk and the public school in Leżajsk. Then he describes his studies at a gymnasium in Jarosław and at the University of Lviv (Lwów). He recalls the difficult path to obtaining a doctorate and habilitation at a time when he had to balance his scientific studies with work in Galician junior high schools (1910-1924) and briefly describes his scholarship in France and England (1912/1913, scholarship from the Kretkowski Fund). The penultimate section consists of Leja's recollections from a 12-year period of work at the Warsaw University of Technology, where he was a professor of mathematics at the Faculty of Chemistry, and when he took over the chair of mathematics at the Jagiellonian University in 1936 and then from his scientific visit to France, which took place on the eve of the war. The last, unfinished chapter was devoted to his recollections of the arrest of Jagiellonian University professors on 6 November 1939, his clandestine teaching during the war, and his post-war visits abroad. The memoirs are preceded by Leja's short biography. Numerous footnotes were added, expanding and correcting the information provided in the original text and illustrations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the present stage, the phrase “labor of minors” sounds alarming and is a sign of the low economic and cultural development of society. For the period of industrialization of the 19th – early 20th century this phenomenon was by no means a rarity, but rather one of the components of economic modernization. The Ukrainian lands were no exception in this regard, child and adolescent labor was used in coal, metallurgical, chemical and other industries. This study is based on workers’ memories of their teenage years, memories of mining engineers, factory inspectors, public figures, as well as, albeit very scattered, statistics on the employment of minors in industry in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century. The most significant and, in this regard, reflected in the memoirs of participants in the production process, were such aspects of the work of minors as working conditions, wages, “professions” of minors, their employment statistics, the evolution of labor legislation and numerous violations of approved norms. The complex conclusion is that it took a long mutual development of public opinion, legislation and family foundations to eradicate the work of minors in industry.

The Heptachor studio was a leading early 20th-century Russian modern dance school committed to a revival of the art of dance and the development of new forms of musical movement and new concepts of artistic creation. In the years 1914--1934, it was the centre of the Musical Movement dance school, experimenting with a wide range of artistic, educational and therapeutic practices. The aim of the article is, first, to present the history of the Heptachor studio on the basis of the recollections and memoirs of its co-founder Stephanida Rudneva, contemporary documents and archive materials, and, second, to analyze the typical creative process narratives included in those sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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On the basis of studies by literary historians (especially the monumental Polish Literature and Theatre in the Years of World War II) and memoirs of initiators, creators and recipients of translations in the years 1939-1945, I present examples of translators who died during the war and those who managed to survive and work. I show the place of translations in the underground publishing movement and theatre; I discuss different ways translations made before the war as well as new ones, undertaken within structures such as the Secret Theatre Council or on private initiative, were present in occupational cultural life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Great War 1914-1918, irretrievably destroyed the political order in Europe, which had been maintained unchanged after 1871 with the conviction of the long duration extended into the Belle Époque. It left many traces - among others - in the memoirs and contemporary reports revealing on a micro-historical scale, some of the opinions and attitudes of the aristocracy, which become invisible on the macro-historical scale and are represented by considerable numbers of sources, which allows a reconstruction of important political and military decisions. This article is a contribution presenting - on the basis of a few examples - the end of the political influence of aristocracy in Central and Eastern Europe that coincided with the departure of monarchs from its political scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this article is to present the portrait of the Vietnam War (1965-1975) in the comic book The Other Side by Jason Aaron and Cameron Stewart, from the point of view of the historian researching this conflict. I analyze this comic in two dimensions: juxtaposing its narrative with historical reality and with other narratives about the Vietnam War present in American culture. I examine if The Other Side repeats some of the "Vietnam war myths" as well, especially because of the claims of its authors. I take a closer look to discern what interpretation of the history of the Vietnam War was made in the comic. I also present how the authors used events, characters and historical terms to give their work an anti-war overtone. The influence of fiction, memoirs and works of writers such as Ambrose Bierce, Gustav Hasford as well as the reporter group called Snuffies on the final shape of the comic is also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article studies the portrait essay by Genna Sosonko, the eminent chess writ- er in modern Russian literature. A chess theme has a consistent history in Russian literature. Sosonko contributes his essays to this history. His essay Gioconda’s Smile is in focus in the article. The author transformed ‘the material of reality’ into es- thetically organized text. Sosonko chose grandmaster Eduard Gufeld as the central character of his work. For him, a man in the chess game is the best test for his moral and ethical qualities. He uses the elements of chess folklore, rumors, travel stories, speech characteristics to compose a central feature of his essay. The psychological analysis discloses ethically ambivalent character. Nevertheless, Gufeld’s joyfulness, sense of humor and vital energy made him very well known in the chess world. His mother’s epitaph serves as a dominant (Vygotsky) of this essay.

Based on the material of the Russian memoirs of the late 19th century, dedicated to the events of the uprising of 1863, the article describes lexical and grammatical inclusions from the Polish language, marked by the authors as nominative units not mastered in Russian speech. A semantic classification of Polish inclusions is carried out and the prevalence of persons’ names by occupation and social status among them is revealed. The ways of marking foreign language elements in the author’s speech are shown (translation, commenting, graphic highlighting). The functions of marking for- eign language inclusions are determined: ensuring adequate understanding of the text by the reader, highlighting the most important ideologically nominations, expressing the author’s irony. The influence of the Russian scientific style on the style of memoirs is stated. It is shown that the marking of Polish inclusions expresses the categories of assessment, informativeness, reliability and coherence of the text.

The text presents a new approach to the Memoir from the Warsaw Uprising by Miron Białoszewski – an analysis from the perspective of anality. The article suggests that wartime suspends the usual taboo of the “privatisation of shit,” and public toilets in shelters become new “agoras,” a function which they used to perform in antiquity. Białoszewski’s quasi-anthropological account of the Uprising actually mentions toilets and the organisation of physiological life in every new place to which he and his company move during the period of two months. War is anal because it is a mass production of “waste” (corpses). However, the most important scene also connects anality to writing poetry by two young gay poets. This scene, here called Urszene, is analysed as a desublimation of homosexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nine centuries of Polish-Jewish contacts in all spheres of life left a mark in Polish. The author of the article decided to check how great and how durable this trace is, looking in the great dictionaries of the Polish language for units considered as carriers of the memory of Jews. The author asks the question which prejudges the fact that a certain unit of language can be considered as a carrier of the memory of Jews. Also, the author attempts to establish in which linguistic forms this Jewish element can be manifested in dictionaries. The trial analysis examined the presence of 240 carriers of memory ("verbal judaics"), sampled from journals, memoir literature and tourist guides published after 2000, in two dictionaries intended for the mass audience: the Dictionary of Polish edited by M. Szymczak, and An Alternative Polish Dictionary edited by M. Bańko. It turned out that these dictionaries recorded only 25% of the collected corps of verbal judaics, often depriving the definitions of these units of the Jewish component. The author reflects on the social consequences of this state of affairs and its relationship with the "collective narcissism" of the Polish society and the historical policy pursued by the Polish state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Struggles with the Tatars who plundered Poland were a real problem for the authorities of the Old Polish Republic. This issue proves to be well mirrored in old-Polish memoirs. Many memoir writers (Jan Florian Drobysz Tuszyński, Stanisław Druszkiewicz, Mikołaj Jemiołowski, Joachim Jerlicz, Samuel Maskiewicz, Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński, Kazimierz Sarnecki) described the subject of Turkish captivity as severe for the Polish nation as regards the political, economic, demographic, and national pride. Among the numerous observations linked to Turkish and Tatar captivity, the diarists uttered remarks on the liberation from slavery. They listed the following solutions to effectuate it, namely military actions to openly confront the oppressor, a buyup (by relatives, strangers, or as an act of charity), prisoner swaps, or release based on treaties concluded immediately after the fight. Besides, envoys sent to the Sublime Porte actively participated in prisoner deliverance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is an attempt to analyze a specific form of autobiographical writing, which is pet memoir, and in particular - cat memoir. The author, inspired by the works of Éric Baratay, asks questions about the ways in which animal biographies are constructed. Then these reflections are applied to the book Iwan Konwicki, z domu Iwaszkiewicz by Tadeusz Konwicki Animal biographies are a difficult genre that generates numerous methodological problems, which, moreover, it shares with other directions of reflection developed during animal studies. However, what is expressed by attempts to create these type of descriptions (doomed to failure in the dimension of adopting the full zoocentric perspective) is the restoration of the animal to history. This peculiar historicization of non-human subjects means not only restoring their individualism and agency, but also supplementing the traditional narrative about the past with a previously neglected dimension. The article consists of a theoretical part in which the author recalls the most important concepts related to pet memoirs as a genre of autobiographical writing and examples of its implementation, and an interpretative part concerning Konwicki's book, in which Ivan" is read with reference to the conventions of traditional biography and the idea of a biography of associated species. As part of the reflection presented in the article, issues such as: animal agency, the role of animals in culture, the animal point of view, anthropomorphization, zoocentric narratives will be taken up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is an attempt to reconstruct the biography of the British painter Laura Alma-Tadema (1852-1909) on the basis of archival materials from the British press and period memoirs. The main aim of the article is to present the life and work of Laura Alma-Tadema as an example of one of the career paths that a woman artist from a wealthy British middle-class home could have chosen in a period when women fought for equality in many areas of life, including art. The profile of the now-forgotten artist, the wife of the esteemed British painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) and the stepmother of Laurence Alma-Tadema (1865-1940) - a writer who was actively involved in helping Poland and Poles during the World War I. The synthesis of the gathered information constitutes the most accurate biographical sketch of Laura Alma-Tadema to date. In addition to the history of her life and the characteristics of her artistic work, the article deals with the themes of the artistic milieu of Great Britain at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the antisuffragism movement as well as the situation and social position of female artists from the perspective of an upper-middle-class woman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article collects and comments on evidence of philanthropy that accompanied the literary apprenticeship of novice female writers from major masters of “fi rst-wave” Russian Émigré – Bunin, Remizov and Shmelev. These quasi-literary relations, as shown in the article, stimulated a rivalry between the named writers, which was refl ected in their mutual ironic nominations and characteristics used in correspondence and memoir or biographical texts. As a rule, female apprentices did not fully understand all the latent hints and hidden subtleties of the artistic discourse peculiar to major writers of the Silver Age. Nevertheless, their letters gave some additional impulses to old masters’ competitiveness. The survived correspondence between I. Shmelev and his apprentice (and benefactor) O. Bredius-Subbotina may be interpreted as a sort of epistolary novel. These letters had aff ected greatly style and plot of the new edition of Shmelev’s famous book Leto Gospodne. In turn, the letters between A. Remizov and his “benefactor-student” N. Kodrianskaia had worked as a mighty source of inspiration for the latter and resulted in her books Remizov in his Letters (1977) and Rukopisnye knigi (Manuscript Books), which in fact are manuals on creative writing.

Lately in Ukrainian literature many texts appeared about of Russian-Ukrainian war. War is actual in a literary process, she is in works of writers that did not participate in war as fighters, also as proses, poetries and dramas of combatants. Prose of combatants is examined in this article. Many authors prefer the genre of diary. But only little part of authors really conducted a diary on this war. Most authors were written in social networks. Returning from war, they used written in social networks, as basis for books. For all authors the books of that we studied, there are receptions of fiction in memoirs. We came in to the conclusion, that new memorialists modernized the genres of diary and remembrance.

Destinies of reemigrants: Dmitry Kobyakov in the diary and letters of Yuri Sofiev The article explores the fate of re-emigrants Yu. Sofiev and D. Kobyakov based on the materials of the diary and letters of Yu. Sofiev, in which the figure of D. Kobyakov acquires volume and features of an ambiguous original personality. Dmitry Kobyakov and Yuri Sofiev belong to the same group of emigrant writers. They are called returnees, re-emigrants, because after many years of living in a foreign land, they returned to their homeland. After returning between Yu. Sofiev and D. Kobyakov, correspondence was restored, and the meeting after a long separation of two re-emigrants took place in Alma-Ata in the summer of 1962. Recognizing that D. Kobyakov has no outstanding poetic talent, Yuri Sofiev argues with a scathing assessment by the emigrant criticism of his early poems, justifying imitation by natural discipleship. In the diary entries (despite the recognition of many of Kobyakov’s many unpleasant personal qualities), one can feel the warmth and cordiality of Sofiev’s attitude to his old friend. However, this does not prevent the author of the diary from critically treating the memoirs of D. Kobyakov, in which Y. Sofiev sees “literary uncleanliness”. The diary and letters of Yuri Sofiev are a reliable documentary source for further research on the fate and work of D. Kobyakov and other representatives of the Russian emigration.

The aim of the article is to recreate the image of Jacek Malczewski as seen by his son, Rafał. The memoirs by Rafał Malczewski, published in the press in 1956, constitute the basis of the analysis. The correspondence of the Malczewski family was also used as supplementary material. The introduction discusses issues pertaining to the relationship between Jacek and Rafał, as well as the origins of the texts themselves. The analysis begins with the return to the author’s first memories related to his father. Rafał paints a picture of him through descriptions of space in which he lived, people he would meet, as well as through short daily-life anecdotes. Apart from characterising Jacek, Rafał attempts to define his painting. The purpose of recording the memoirs was to de-mythologise the reception of Jacek Malczewski’s art, and to present his figure as that of a man and artist evading fixed conventions.

The article is a response to the polemical commentary by Paweł E. Tomaszewski, PhD, published in the current volume of the journal Studia Historiae Scientiarum 18 (2019), regarding the author’s earlier article on the work of the Institute of Metallurgy and Metal Science at the Warsaw University of Technology with the addenda to the biography of Jan Czochralski, published in the previous volume of the journal. It is well known that any attempt to compile the history of any issue requires critical approach to historical sources and that acquiring information collected in archival sources, the press and memoirs requires from the researcher a diligent and thorough comparative work. However, the problem arises when an author of a future publication has only few sources at his disposal, or even only one, which was the case here. The article answers the doubts bothering Paweł E. Tomaszewski regarding the financing of the construction and equipment of the Institute of Metallurgy and Metallurgy at the Warsaw University of Technology and the origin and work of Jan Czochralski. The issues of the enterprises Zakłady Hohenlohe SA, Wspólnota Interesów and Wspólnota Interesów Górniczo-Hutniczych SA were also discussed. The author proposes that a systematic team inquiry into both press and archival resources regarding Jan Czochralski should be carried out, and researchers should be allowed access to respective private archives. This will allow for a more research-grounded historical syntheses of Jan Czochralski.

„LVIV WAS A MECCA FOR ME”: MEMORIES OF ULAS SAMCHUK The article is devoted to the recollections of the Ukrainian writer, public figure Ulas Samchuk (1905-1987) concerning Lviv, reflected in his memoirs (On a White Horse, 1965 and On a Crow’s Horse, 1975), which he wrote in exile. Lviv of the 1920s appears as the centre of Ukrainian social and political life, with the most expedient, according to the writer, means of evolutionary and organic development. Lviv during the Nazi occupation of the 1940s, despite outright repression by the authorities, remained an important literary and publishing centre. Ulas Samchuk considered the imperial-Russian awareness, Stalinist and Nazi totalitarian systems to be the main enemies and threats to Ukraine. It was Lviv that the writer perceived as the centre of formation of a democratic Ukraine according to the Western model, which should be extended to the rest of Ukrainian territory.

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The article is dedicated to semantic functions of transcode markers in Polish émigré literature. Two diaries, written respectively by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and Jan Lechoń, constitute the exemplification material. The diary genre, similarly to letters and memoirs, lends itself to introducing this kind of markers. Their presence reflects the multilingual competence of the author, as well as his mental, social, and psychological experience. The second language enables broadening the referential space of the first language and conveying emotions. The strategy of code switching depends on the motivation and goal of writing a given text. In Herling-Grudziński’s Journal Written by Night, foreign words from different languages abound. They fulfill several functions in the text, namely: metalinguistic, index and stylistic function. Their presence is justified by the content and by the role adopted by the author – the one of an interpreter of the political and social reality. The Diary by Lechoń is different in terms of types of predominant functions which can be distinguished in his text. Besides commenting on the émigré life, the author focuses on his emotions and experiences. Therefore, index and metalinguistic functions turn out to be the most important. Pointing out different strategies of introducing transcode markers in a text by its author is fundamental for the research on bilingualism in émigré writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article is an attempt to analyze a specific form of autobiographical writing, which is pet memoir, and in particular -- cat memoir. The author, inspired by the works of Éric Baratay, asks questions about the ways in which animal biographies are constructed. Then these re- flections are applied to the book Iwan Konwicki, z domu Iwaszkiewicz by Tadeusz Konwicki. Animal biographies are a difficult genre that generates numerous methodological problems, which, moreover, it shares with other directions of reflection developed during animal studies. However, what is expressed by attempts to create these type of descriptions (doomed to failure in the dimension of adopting the full zoocentric perspective) is the restoration of the animal to history. This peculiar historicization of non-human subjects means not only restoring their individualism and agency, but also supplementing the traditional narrative about the past with a previously neglected dimension. The article consists of a theoretical part in which the author recalls the most important concepts related to pet memoirs as a genre of autobiographical writing and examples of its implementation, and an interpretative part concerning Konwicki's book, in which Ivan is read with reference to the conventions of traditional biography and the idea of a biography of associated species. As part of the reflection presented in the article, issues such as: animal agency, the role of animals in culture, the animal point of view, anthropomorphization, zoocentric narratives will be taken up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article portrays a pair of artistically gifted women, Wanda Młodnicka née Monné (1850-1923) and her daughter Maryla Wolska (1873-1930), each with a diverse range of interests, including painting, music, and, first and foremost, literature. Their achievement (both original works and translations) achievement has been largely forgotten. This article attempts to find out what inspired the two women, to identify those points of their artistic endeavor they had in common and those that determined their individual profiles, while paying special attention to the mother-daughter relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to the recollections of the Ukrainian writer, public figure Ulas Samchuk (1905-1987) concerning Lviv, reflected in his memoirs (On a White Horse, 1965 and On a Crow's Horse, 1975), which he wrote in exile. Lviv of the 1920s appears as the centre of Ukrainian social and political life, with the most expedient, according to the writer, means of evolutionary and organic development. Lviv during the Nazi occupation of the 1940s, despite outright repression by the authorities, remained an important literary and publishing centre. Ulas Samchuk considered the imperial-Russian awareness, Stalinist and Nazi totalitarian systems to be the main enemies and threats to Ukraine. It was Lviv that the writer perceived as the centre of formation of a democratic Ukraine according to the Western model, which should be extended to the rest of Ukrainian territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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