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The Shoah in Poland in the Work of Jiří Weil: Translations and Literary Reference*

Jiří Weil (1900-1959) is currently associated in particular with novel-writing. His works Moskva- -hranice (Moscow to the Border), Život s hvězdou (Life with a Star) and Na střeše je Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn is on the R…

The Second World War in Polish Cinema. Recent Filmic Approaches and the Reception in Poland and Germany

The article deals with the representations of history in contemporary Polish cinema. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, Jan Komasa released two fundamentally different films within one year.…

Returns from Concentration Camps

The article is concentrated on the Czech post-war literature, especially on the Czech treatment of the theme regarding returns from concentration camps in the novels written in the second half of 20th century and in con…

"Abandoned Secrets". The Question of the Holocaust Narratives in Ukrainian Literature

The reportage Ukraine without Jews (1943) by the Soviet writer Vasilij Grossman is one of the earliest public reports on the Holocaust. Although Ukraine had been in the centre of the Nazi mass murder and single voices l…

From Report to Mythus. Jiří Kolář's Plays as Creative Transformation of the Shoah Testimonies

Kolář's plays Chléb náš vezdejší and Mor v Athénách, written at the turn of the fifties and the sixties, are the examples of aestheticization of testimonies and other texts about the Shoah. Kolář's creative path is in a…

Helplessness of Words. Ante Kesić's "Fiction" on the Holocaust

In the article one book written by the Croatian author, Ante Kesić, is taken into consideration. The novel Black Snow, published in 1957, narrates about a Slovenian young woman, Breda, who was caught by the Germans in L…

Milo Urban's Journalist Writing and Memoirs on the Theme of the Holocaust (in Slovak literature)

The article discusses selected texts of different genres by Milo Urban (1904-1982). The first text level is represented by fragments from his memoirs written in the 1970s and only published in the 1990s. An analysis of…

Yelling into the Silence and its Echos. Czech Shoah Poetry Written till 1960s and its Reception

The literary reflection of the Shoah in Czech war and post-war poetry is very limited. Only a few non-Jewish poets have ever returned to thistheme (e.g. František Halas,Jiří Kolář,Jaroslav Seifert, Jan Skácel, Karel Kře…

Postcatastrophic Re-Reading of Tadeusz Hołuj's Puste pole

This article deals with the re-interpretation of Tadeusz Hołuj's drama Puste pole (1963; The Empty Field) and its theatrical staging by Józef Szajna in 1965. Based on the drama I want to demonstrate how the artists - wh…

"Prosthetic" Memory, "Aftersights" of Memory, Memory "Easy to Consume"? A Few Words About Visual Remembrance of the Holocaust

Discussion about the borders restricting (unavoidable today) aestheticization of memory about the Holocaust experience is still valid - in the article are recalled some different strategies of remembering the Holocaust…

Bitter Cinema. On Occupation in 26 Pictures by Lordan Zafranović

Analysis and interpretation of the film fresque made by Croatian director Lordan Zafranović (1978), a masterpiece of European art cinema of 70s. Marek Hendrykowski's study describes relationship between poetics of exper…

Lyrical and Musical Correspondances in Josip Sever's Output

Lektury. Poza tematem

Cultural Heritage in the Balkans. Between Eastern Orthodox Church and Islam

Lektury. Poza tematem

Fenomenology of Evil. Bosnian-Herzegovinian Context

Lektury. Recepcja literackich i artystycznych dzieł o Szoa

Onychophasia - A case report

Body focused repetitive behaviors are frequently seen in individuals with obsessive compulsive disorders. These behaviors range from repetitive hand washing to more severe forms such as onychophagia. We report a case of…

Rapid cycling bipolar disorder, pathogenesis to treatment: A case report and review

In this paper, we discuss a case report along with literature review focusing on background information, pathogenesis, biomarkers and potential treatment options for Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder. Keywords: Rapid cycli…

Exploring the decision-making power of Bangladeshi women of reproductive age: Results from a national survey

Empowerment is personal, multi-dimensional and latent phenomenon that is difficult to measure directly. Bangladesh is a developing country in South Asia and women population of the country is almost equal to the male wi…

Bull attack as a cause of spinal cord injury in Bangladesh - Does it really matters?

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Application and Hazards of Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery - A Review

General concept: Nanotechnology is a revolutionary field of micro manufacturing involving physical and chemical changes to produce nano-sized materials. The word "nano" is a Latin word meaning "dwarf". Mathematically a…

Molecular Detection of Chicken Infectious Anaemia Virus from Backyard Chickens in Libya

Background and Objective: Chicken infectious anaemia (CIA) is primarily a disease of young chickens caused by a small DNA virus - chicken infectious anaemia virus (CIAV) belonging to the family Circoviridae. The virus i…

Assessment of Biosafety and Biosecurity Aspects in Diagnostic Clinical Laboratories in Tripoli, Libya

Background: Biosafety and Biosecurity are fundamental practices in the laboratory settings, especially, in developing countries, where standard operating procedures (SOPs) are generally low. Objective: To assess the sit…

Study of Risk Factors for Toxoplasma gondii infection in Tripoli

Background and Objective: Toxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite which infects both humans and animals as a zoonotic pathogen wide spread in nature. This study was aimed at co…

Isoflurane versus Desflurane for Anaesthesia in Surgical Operation: A Comparison of Maintenance and Hemodynamic Profile

Background: Inhaled volatile anesthetics continue to be the most extensively used drugs for maintenance of general anesthesia because of their ease of administration and predictable intraoperative and recovery character…

Zoonotic Importance and Prevalence of Toxocara spp among Pets in Tripoli, Libya

Background and Purpose: The pets are increasingly considered a member of the family, physical contact is very common and a diverse range zoonotic infections, including parasitic, bacterial, fungal and viral diseases are…