Name: Lviv - Wroclaw, Cities in Parallel?: Myth, Memory and Migration, c. 1890-Present
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Author: Fellerer, Jan ; Pyrah, Robert
ISBN: 9789633863237

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

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Physical Book

Publisher

Central European University Press

Author

Fellerer, Jan ; Pyrah, Robert

Language

English

Pages

364

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN13

9789633863237

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

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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