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Urban Communities and Memories in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age book cover

1st Edition

Urban Communities and Memories in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age

Edited By Aleksander Łupienko Copyright 2025
318 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

318 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

318 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited volume studies the logic of community formation and the common view of the past to show how various social bonds of communities functioned during the modern national era of East-Central Europe from the late eighteenth century until today and how multifaceted this group-building really was. Through an overview of selected examples of communities in East-Central European urban... Read more

Introduction
Aleksander Łupienko

Part 1: Urban Communities and Memories in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

1. Epitaphs and Memory in Royal Prussia Between the Pre-modern Era and Modernity: The Case of Nicolaus Copernicus and Memorials Dedicated to Him
Franciszek Skibiński

2. Faith, Self and Boundary: Christian Communities in Nineteenth-Century East-Central Europe
Aleksander Łupienko

3. The Memory of the Pre-Partition Polish State in the Jewish Culture Around 1900
Marek Tuszewicki

Part 2: Urban Communities and Memories at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

4. Forging Visions of a Polish Past in a Nationalising City: Memory Politics in Autonomous Lviv
Heidi Hein-Kircher

5. Commemorating Polish History in the Public Spaces of County Towns in Autonomous Galicia (1861–1918)
Tomasz Kargol

6. Between Local and National Memory: The Activity of Selected Polish Socio-Cultural Associations in Galicia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Adrianna Dominika Sznapik

7. Three Monuments in Vilnius at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Repetition, Function and Meaning
Paweł Lesisz

Part 3: Urban Communities and Memories in the Interwar Period

8. Zamość (1918–1939): Myth, Legend and the Creation of Memory
Paulina Korneluk

9. Legions of the Phoenix: State-Controlled memory and the Rebuilding of Kalisz After 1918
Makary Górzyński

10. Regionalism and the (Re-)Construction of Subnational Communities: Chodsko and Kdyně in south-western Czechoslovakia, 1918–1948
Jaroslav Ira

Part 4: Urban Communities and Memories After 1945

11. Forge, Cage and Spectre: The Bases of (Non-)Remembrance of the Town of Turčiansky Svätý Martin
Anna Kobylińska

12. Mediating with Memory: The Case of the Imperial/Castle/University Quarter in Poznań (1910–2021)
Piotr Korduba

13. Remembering as Unknowing: Limitations of the Category of Collective Memory in Studies of Jewish Spaces in Contemporary Poland
Konrad Matyjaszek

14. Unwanted Heritage or the Continuation of a City’s Modernisation?: The Problem of the Liquidation of Cemeteries in Gdansk After 1945
Klaudiusz Grabowski

Biography

Aleksander Łupienko is Associate Professor in the T. Manteuffel Institute of History, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

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