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Author : Clinton Machann
Release : 1991
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 468/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Czech Voices by : Clinton Machann
Download or read book Czech Voices written by Clinton Machann. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 39." Early Czech immigrants in Texas.
Author : Michael Long
Release : 2005-02-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 913/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Making History by : Michael Long
Download or read book Making History written by Michael Long. This book was released on 2005-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1989, Václav Havel and a relatively small group of intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the Velvet Revolution. Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989 brings together the personal narratives of eleven former dissidents who, though close associates of Havel, operated without his international celebrity. The narratives, based on interviews conducted by the author in Prague and Berlin, relate each individual's personal experiences on topics such as growing up in Czechoslovakia, life as a dissident, the Velvet Revolution, and the achievements and failures of the Czech Republic since 1989. Through their many voices we come to understand that the life of a dissident is one of hardship, uncertainty, and constant surveillance; yet at the same time life in the underground allows a certain degree of freedom unattainable in official society. For more information about the book, please visit Michael Long's website.
Author : Clinton & James Mendl Machann (Jr)
Release : 1991
Genre : Czechs in the United States
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Book Synopsis Czech Voices by : Clinton & James Mendl Machann (Jr)
Download or read book Czech Voices written by Clinton & James Mendl Machann (Jr). This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kamila Veverková
Release : 2022-09-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 062/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bernard Bolzano by : Kamila Veverková
Download or read book Bernard Bolzano written by Kamila Veverková. This book was released on 2022-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the ethical, philosophical, and social legacy of the work of Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), highlighting the theological element of Bolzano’s thought. Bolzano influenced several key thinkers (primarily Catholic priests) such as Vincenc Zahradník, Josef Michael Fesl, Anton Krombholz, František Schneider, and their pupils and successors. Zahradník co-founded an important professional Czech periodical and created much of modern Czech theological terminology. Anton Krombholz became an important representative of Austrian education after 1848, working at the Vienna Ministry of Education. Based on her previous comprehensive Czech monograph, the author now highlights other new manuscripts from Krombholz’s literary legacy. She underscores connections between Bolzano's legacy and the reform movement of the Czech Catholic clergy, emphasizing that Bolzano's ideas resonated in Czech Catholic modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Notwithstanding the tumultuous national development of Czechs and Germans in nineteenth-century Bohemia, Bolzano's conception of a peaceful coexistence between the two nationalities in Bohemia very favorably contributed to the preservation of the unity of the Catholic Church during such ethnically complex times. The author’s theological conception draws upon the works of Jan Milíč Lochman (1922–2004), who, in addition to writing on contemporary ecumenical themes, also dealt with the spiritual legacy of the Czech National Revival.
Author : John Neubauer
Release : 2009-10-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe by : John Neubauer
Download or read book The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe written by John Neubauer. This book was released on 2009-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comparative study of literature written by writers who fled from East-Central Europe during the twentieth century. It includes not only interpretations of individual lives and literary works, but also studies of the most important literary journals, publishers, radio programs, and other aspects of exile literary cultures. The theoretical part of introduction distinguishes between exiles, émigrés, and expatriates, while the historical part surveys the pre-twentieth-century exile traditions and provides an overview of the exilic events between 1919 and 1995; one section is devoted to exile cultures in Paris, London, and New York, as well as in Moscow, Madrid, Toronto, Buenos Aires and other cities. The studies focus on the factional divisions within each national exile culture and on the relationship between the various exiled national cultures among each other. They also investigate the relation of each exile national culture to the culture of its host country. Individual essays are devoted to Witold Gombrowicz, Paul Goma, Milan Kundera, Monica Lovincescu, Miloš Crnjanski, Herta Müller, and to the “internal exile” of Imre Kertész. Special attention is devoted to the new forms of exile that emerged during the ex-Yugoslav wars, and to the problems of “homecoming” of exiled texts and writers.
