Memory Book Research Articles

HOLOCAUST IN EDUCATION — CULLING THE DIARY OF ANA FRANK FROM THE CURRICULUM FOR SLOVENIAN (2018/2019)

The article will present the theme of the Holocaust in the curricula for Slovene in three social systems (1984, 1998, and 2019). Based on a literary analysis of children's writing (diaries, poems and commemorative books) during the Holocaust. Special attention will be paid to Anne Frank’s Diary of 12-year-old Anne Frank (1942-1944). The Holocaust Museum in the US has about 70 digitized children's diaries (manuscripts and translations into English). At the Yad Vashem Memorial Centre in Israel, there is an exhibition Children in the Holocaust, which presents albums, diaries, toys, books, personal items, letters, oisbetjum postcards, drawings and commemorative books. The Museum of Contemporary History in Celje collects the diaries and commemorations of the so-called stolen children (The Diary of Slavka Preložnik and the Pepce Medved Memorial Book) and the Pesmarica Justine Marolt (NUK). Ana Frank’s diary has been next to the Bible since 2009, Grimm’s fairy tales on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The decision is of the opinion that, because of all the above, it is indispensable to exclude the Diary of Ana Frank from the Curriculum for Slovenian (2018/2019).

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Madres Latinas En Convivencia: A Family Reading Project

AbstractIn all, 15 Latina mothers participated in a 10‐week bilingual family reading project implemented at a public elementary school in rural Texas. Convivencia and pláticas were critical components for the implementation of the family reading project. Thus, the research question guiding the present article is as follows: How can pláticas with Latina mothers participating in a bilingual family reading project help us learn about their literacy interests and learning needs? Data sources included demographic questionnaire, research journal, family memory books, and video recorded interviews. The importance of convivencia emerged through the analysis of the data collected. Study findings underscore the conceptualization of convivencia as a way to explore personal and family stories, negotiating conflicting viewpoints, and being together. Similarly, pláticas allowed the participants to co‐construct knowledge, identify differences and commonalities, be vulnerable and reflective, as well as participate in dialogue about difficult topics.

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Other| June 01 2022 About the Contributors GLQ (2022) 28 (3): 487–488. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9738615 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation About the Contributors. GLQ 1 June 2022; 28 (3): 487–488. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9738615 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search Anjali Arondekar is professor of feminist studies and founding codirector of the Center for South Asian Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality, caste, and historiography, with a focus on Indian Ocean studies and South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (2009), winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies, Modern Language Association (MLA), 2010. Her second book, Abundance: Sexuality, Historiography, Geopolitics (forthcoming from Duke University Press), grows out of her interest in the figurations of sexuality, caste, and capital in colonial British and Portuguese India.Baird Campbell holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Rice University and an MA in Latin American studies from Tulane University. His research engages queer activism in post-dictatorship Chile through... You do not currently have access to this content.

The legacy of haemophilia: Memories and reflections from three survivors.

Following the publication of a book of personal memories by one of us (CS1,2), we have attempted to synthesis our joint memories of three ageing men, born in the era preceding universal access to treatment, in an attempt to describe our experience, our challenges and our reflections on the development of therapies, which have ensured that our experience of growing up with haemophilia in the 1950s and 1960s has not been mirrored by the current generation of patients. We describe our upbringing in different parts of Europe in health care systems which, while of varying standards, were all unable to offer the kind of care which developed after the development of specific therapies. We assess the effect of the contamination of these therapies by blood‐borne pathogens on our own development, and the development of our communities around us. In addition, we reflect on the lessons learnt, sometimes painfully, by our generation of people with haemophilia and how some of these enabled us to overcome substantial hurdles, survive and build productive lives. Finally, we survey the development of therapies in the past 20 years, and offer some reflections on how our experience can be integrated in a realistic expectation of what the future holds for our community, in our own affluent societies and in countries less advantaged economically. We hope that our thoughts may contribute to continued progress in the field of haemophilia care.

Inscripts and Ownership Stamps in A. I. Klibanov’s Book Collection of SPSTL SB RAS

The article investigates insufficiently researched issues related to A. I. Klibanov’s book collection. The review of the detected autographs, exlibris and ownership stamps provides an opportunity to determine custodial history of books from both state libraries and personal collections, as well as to reveal unique information about relationships and cooperation between medieval scholars in the second half of the 20th century. The dedicatory inscriptions on the books differ in their length and originality; therefore, their significance as a source is directly proportional to how close a sender and a receiver were. Identification and description of bookplates and stamps in the study of the “Klibanovskaya” collection, still unknown from available reference books, will help in the study of other memorial book collections where such provenance marks can be found. The article also details the features of the formation of the foreign part of the A. I. Klibanov’s book collection. The foreign part of the memorial book collection, which is relatively small compared with the entire collection, can be divided into several thematic blocks: books with autographs donated by researchers dealing with similar scientific problems as the owner of the collection; multi-temporal books on historical and religious subjects, acquired by the owner; instances not related to the previous two blocks. The article identifies, systematizes and describes the inscriptions and ownership marks on the books of the collection of A. I. Klibanov.

REPRESSIONS IN THE CENTRAL APPARATUS OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF REPRESSIVE MEASURES IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE USSR (1919–1940).

The article deals with the issue of the scale of repression in the central military and naval intelligence agencies of the People's Commissariat of Defense (hereinafter - NCO) and the People's Commissariat of the Navy of the USSR (hereinafter - NKVMF). The relevance of the study is due to the need to establish the exact number of repressed intelligence officers of both People's commissariats; the need to substantiate the accusations often made by domestic and foreign historians against the leadership of the USSR in the repression of the "best representatives" of military intelligence; establishing the degree of influence of repression on the effectiveness of the work of intelligence agencies. Until now, the study of repression in the Armed Forces of the USSR has been limited only to general work, the study of repression in individual military districts (for example, the Trans–Baikal Military District), in the types and branches of the armed forces (Navy, cavalry), as well as in individual formations and military schools. The novelty of this study lies in the fact that until now the issue of repression and its consequences in the central intelligence agencies of the Red Army and the Red Army has not been studied. In their work, the authors used the method of historiographical analysis. Taking into account the peculiarities and difficulties in access to hitherto closed materials on military intelligence personnel, the main source base of the study was the so-called "Memory Books" of all those shot in Moscow in the 1919-1940s, prospects for further search work on this topic are outlined.

A pilot study of AID-COMp: An innovative speech-language intervention for patients with early-stage major neurocognitive disorder.

Major neurocognitive disorder (MND) alters cognition, memory and language, and consequently affects communication. Speech-language therapy (SLT) may alleviate communication difficulties. This pilot study explored the effects of intensive SLT emphasizing memory, language, and discourse impairment and complementary communication strategies, called Aid for Communication-For Persons Who Live with MND (AID-COMp). We employed a mixed design using quantitative and qualitative methods with four dyads, including a person living with MND (PwMND) and a family carer. The design included a control period, and we tested participants before (T1) and after 2 months without therapy (T2). AID-COMp was then provided intensively three times per week for 10 sessions and participants were tested again (T3). Participants were also involved in an individual qualitative interview after therapy ended, probing their experience and possible effects on their lives. AID-COMp included: (1) spaced retrieval to teach the use of a memory book; (2) semantic and phonological therapy for lexical access; (3) discourse treatment based on the analysis of the macrostructure and microstructure of stories in pictures and texts; and (4) PACE therapy for generalization. Carers were not included in treatment, did not attend sessions and were only involved in the evaluations. Measures included language, communication, cognitive and well-being tests. Paired t-tests (one-tailed) compared scores for the control period, that is, T1 versus T2. We compared scores after therapy (T3) with those at T2. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed qualitatively. For the control period, only text comprehension scores significantly decreased in PwMND. After therapy, improvements occurred on the Boston Naming Test (BNT), the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) and the well-being measure for the PwMND. Carer scores were unchanged after therapy except for their perception of the PwMND's communication which improved. Qualitative findings comprised three themes: (1) understanding therapy; (2) recovering abilities and relationships; and (3) naming further needs. We hypothesize that AID-COMp addressed the underlying impairments associated with MND and provided various tools to PwMND for composing effectively with them. Indeed, AID-COMp appears to provoke some degree of improvement of language skills, cognition and emotional well-being. These improvements may lead to more confidence in conversation and the recovery of relationships between the PwMND and their entourage. It is also possible that improvements acted positively on one another. These preliminary findings warrant further controlled studies with more participants, including a qualitative exploration of participant experiences. What is already known on the subject MND affects cognition and communication, which are crucial to a good relationship between a carer and a person with MND. Interventions involving only PwMND have been shown to be effective, but do not address all the communication impairments in the mild stage of MND. These interventions may require many therapy sessions. Generally, SLT interventions do not examine the potential effects of an intervention on carers. What this paper adds to existing knowledge AID-COMp, an intensive intervention of 10 sessions over 1 month, was provided to people living with MND in the community. It included training the person with MND in using a memory notebook combined with semantic and phonological therapy, a new discourse therapy and PACE therapy, addressing several communication deficits. After a control period of 2 months without intervention and a 1-month intensive intervention, the results showed significant improvement in naming, cognition and communication, and PwMND well-being. Moreover, the carers witnessed the impacts of therapy in their everyday life interactions with the PwMND. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work AID-COMp can provide communication support for PwMND that has further benefits reported by both PwMND and carers. We described AID-COMp in detail to inspire clinicians in providing SLT for unserved PwMND. Future research studies should use controlled designs, more participants and a qualitative component.

From unskilled worker to full professor: The eventful life and career of the Jewish pathologist Herman Medak (1914–1991)

The Jewish pathologist Herman Medak (1914–1991) went down in medical history as a pioneer in the early detection of oral carcinomas. As a longtime full professor of oral pathology at the University of Illinois, he influenced several generations of students and young researchers. His many experimental studies attracted special attention, as did his “Atlas of Oral Cytology” (1970).Largely unknown, however, is the fact that the Viennese-born scientist had to flee from the Nazi regime immediately before his medical state examination and thus arrived in the United States without a qualifying professional degree. This article attempts to fill the existing research gaps and to reconstruct Medak’s life and work. It sheds light on Medak’s years of study in Vienna, his forced emigration from Austria, his restart in the U.S. and his path to becoming a full professor of oral pathology. It also addresses the question of why Medak remained in Chicago until the end of his life and how the University of Vienna later dealt with its expelled students.The analysis is based on a large number of documents from archives in Austria and the U.S., but also on transcripts and other material from the private collection of the Medak family. These documents were supplemented and compared with the relevant secondary literature.It can be shown that Medak had to overcome considerable setbacks not only in Vienna, but also in the U.S., before he got on the road to professional success. Five factors ultimately proved to be career-enhancing: the Nimbus of the “Vienna School”, Medak’s unconditional striving for education, his deliberate specialization in oral pathology, his early international contacts and his willingness to adapt and acculturate. Like most other displaced scholars, Medak was widely ignored in postwar Austria. Today, the University of Vienna maintains an online memorial book that also provides information about Medak – albeit still rudimentary.

Memory Books as Family Historiography: How a Rural Ugandan Family Wrote Their Experience of HIV

In Uganda, thousands of memory books have been written since the late 1990s by parents, mostly underprivileged widows, living with HIV for their children about their families. This article first addresses the background of memory books and then analyzes three memory books by one rural Ugandan mother in collaboration with her children. This article is based on six field visits I made between 2008 and 2016, mostly to Tororo, Uganda. I was shown over forty memory books, and interviewed writers, their family members, NGO staff, and community group leaders. Through a close textual analysis of the three memory books, I argue that the memory book represents a new form of family historiography that allows less literate people to speak and be heard.

When the Personal and the Collective Merge into Oneness: The Dynamics of Memory in Petina Gappah’s <i>The Book of Memory</i>

Using as a stepping-stone The Book of Memory by Zimbabwean lawyer and novelist Petinah Gappah, I set out in this research article to grapple with the dynamics of the vexed issue of memory. The paper argues that, when it comes to memory, the individual intertwines with the collective. Even though the act of remembering is purely individual, the fact remains that it is enacted in a social context with groups acting as cues. Remembering is not an isolated act. Instead, it is group-induced. The article also brings to light the crippling weaknesses that memory studies have long suffered from, namely the short shrift given to the collective dimension in favour of the personal. It follows from the research project, though, that this flaw began to be remedied with the seminal of work of the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs who introduced the concept of “collective memory” to foreground the communal nature of memory. What the French thinker calls “social frameworks”, the paper explains, reflects the social contexts in which people remember. The politics of memory works at many levels, with forgetting being dubbed by Aleida Assman a “social normality” and remembering the “exception.” From a methodological perspective, I elected to adopt an approach based on the humanities, and the social sciences, not least sociology and history, in order the better to bring into sharp relief the dynamics of memory.

Nebuchadnezzar’s Mind and Memory in the Old English “Daniel”

As Mary Carruthers observes in her seminal Book of Memory, the cultivation of memory was considered a mark of superior ethics in the Middle Ages. She claims, for example, that “the choice to train one’s memory or not, for the ancients and medievals, was not a choice dictated by convenience: it was a matter of ethics. A person without a memory, if such a thing could be, is a person without moral character and, in a basic sense, without humanity” (Carruthers 14). In the present article, which aims to discuss the Old English biblical paraphrase Daniel, I argue that memory plays an important, if not essential, role in Nebuchadnezzar’s conversion. The poet expands on the biblical source, the Old Testament Book of Daniel, to depict the Babylonian king as commencing a process of rectification of the self by incorporating and internalizing the word of God, mediated in the poem by Daniel the prophet, as part of his self.

Regional Russian Books of Memory as a Form of Preservation and Transfer of Cultural-Historical Memory about the Afghanistan War of 1979-1989

The historical memory of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan (1979-1989) is studied through the prism of memory books dedicated to the participants of the war and those who died in it. The present paper is the first study of the Afghan books of memory that were published over the past decades in different regions of Russia. The first part of this paper analyzes the regional books of memory published in various regions of the Russian Federation from 1991 to the present day; the second part analyzes the books of memory published in small cities of Russia as a separate cultural phenomenon. In conclusion, the author describes the main features of regional Afghan books of memory, emphasizing that the memory books are published with the active participation of various regional organizations - from local archives to representatives of municipalities - revealing that the publication of these books is part of cultural policy in the regions. Many memory books have been reprinted, which indicates the continued collection and processing of information about the military casualties in Afghanistan. The regional books of memory are one of the most important forms of preserving and transmitting the historical memory of the Afghanistan war.

Forced labor of Jews in the Szydłowiec ghetto during World War II - The nature of the work performed, its dimension and social aspects

Purpose of the study: The article contains information on the forced labor performed by Jews for the benefit of Germans during the Second World War. The research area was narrowed down to the area of the Szydłowiec ghetto and its vicinity (the Radom district in the General Government. The text presents the types of work performed by Jews, forms of forcing them to take up forced labor, and their attempts to bypass German restrictions.
 Methodology: This article is based on a comparative-historical method, the aim of which is to enable the researcher to identify Jews as a separate social group that was used by the Germans for forced labor. The use of this method is aimed at learning about the historical processes and mechanisms of functioning of selected Nazi restrictions in Poland. In addition, prosopographic and inductive methods as well as a method based on the grounded theory will be used. Moreover, due to the nature of the subject of the work, the research conducted in this field also requires the use of oral history.
 Main Findings: Extremely burdensome, in many aspects, compulsion for Jews was the almost slave labor they performed for the benefit of the Germans. Every Jew had to work at least one day a week for the Third Reich. Jews were used for various types of work, including snow removal from roads. Slave labor for the benefit of the Nazis was one of the causes of the increasing poverty of Jews.
 Application: The results of the research make a significant contribution to the knowledge of the history of Jews from Szydłowiec. This research not only broadens the knowledge about the history of the functioning of the Jewish community in Szydłowiec during World War II, but also broadens the knowledge about the history of the Holocaust and the mechanisms of crimes. These studies can be used to further analyze the situation of Jews during the German occupation in the territory of the Radom district, or more broadly, in the territory of the General Government.
 Novelty/Originality of the study: For the first time in this study, many fragments of Jewish diaries from the Memorial Book of Szydłowiec were used (some of the memoirs were published only in Yiddish). The article is the basis for further research on the history of Jews during World War II in the area of the Radom district.

ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ РЕПРЕССИИ В СРЕДЕ БЕЛОРУСОВ БАШКИРИИ

The article is devoted to political repressions among Belarusians of Bashkiria in the 30s of the XX century. To date, this ethnic group remains one of the little-studied peoples of the republic, which was a consequence of the long-term priority in the research of the titular Bashkir ethnic group against the background of the ethnocentrism of the historical science of the country. The number of publications devoted to the Belarusians of Bashkiria continues to remain insignificant until now, and most of them are published in the periodical press, as a rule, they have a journalistic, local history, popular science, reference or review orientation. For the first time, the researcher was faced with the task of identifying the dynamics of repressive measures against the ethnic group of Belarusians who lived compactly in rural areas of the region. The analysis of the data of the "Book of Memory of the Victims of Political Repression of the Republic of Bashkortostan" has established that rural residents from among the Belarusian ethnic group suffered more at the initial stages of mass collectivization. this confirms the prosperity of the settlers acquired during the functioning of the farm system of management, as well as the fact that the repressions against Belarusians did not have an ethnic coloring, like their neighbors in the farm residence of Latvians. As an example, the archival and investigative cases of the FSB in the Republic of Bashkortostan from 1931 are considered. The fate of a late-period migrant who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 from the territory of Western Belarus is considered.

БЕЗВОЗВРАТНЫЕ ЛЮДСКИЕ ПОТЕРИ КУЙБЫШЕВСКОЙ (САМАРСКОЙ) ОБЛАСТИ В ПЕРИОД ХОЛОДНОЙ ВОЙНЫ (1946-1991 ГГ.): СОЦИАЛЬНО-ДЕМОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ

The article studies the irretrievable human losses of Kuibyshev (now Samara) region in local conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century. Using interdisciplinary research methods, the author conducted a socio-demographic analysis of the “Book of Memory of Samara region residents who perished in local military conflicts”, which revealed the following characteristics of an international soldier: age, place of birth, cause of death, service life, education, profession, military rank, type of service, awards, and hobbies. The study is an attempt to understand the losses of military personnel suffered by the region during the “cold war” and to create a collective portrait of an internationalist warrior.

Award Citation: The Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize, 2021

Award Citation: The Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize, 2021

The Albinic Body and the Architecture of Resilience in Ben Hanson’s Takadini and Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory

Skin pigmentation has a bearing on identity construction and the politics of belonging in Zimbabwean literature. Persons with albinism are often subjected to social exclusion, rape, and ritual killing due to misconceptions about the aetiology of their condition. The albinic body—regarded by ableist society as either unpigmented or wrongly pigmented—inhabits a precarious liminal space between whiteness and blackness, normalcy and abnormality, and ultra-visibility and invisibility. This ambivalent positionality deconstructs the ideological construction of difference based on pigmentation and shows that albinism cannot be essentialised as inferiority. Using Ben Hanson’s Takadini (1997, Kampala: East African Educational Publishers) and Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory (2015, London: Faber and Faber), I offer a context-specific discussion of the architecture of resilience exhibited by persons with albinism, with a particular focus on how misconceptions about albinism are disconnected from the lived realities of albinic characters. While the texts are alive to the medical challenges confronting the albinic body, they also underscore its resilience and full functionality in the face of culturally mediated disablement. To explore this dynamic in these two novels, the article formulates an aesthetic of resilience that draws on resilience theory in structural engineering. I argue that the albinic body has resilience properties that can turn its vulnerability into a creative force that unsettles notional understandings of what it means to be albinic.

“INFLAMED WITH HIGHER LOVE…”: ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN SEMANTICS OF THE POEM BY A. A. FET SEVASTOPOL BED OF HONOR

The article provides an analysis of the poem by A. A. Fet Sevastopol Bed of Honor and considers the historical, literary and biographical context of this work. The creation of the poem is connected with Fet’s trip to the Crimea in September 1879 and his visit to the Sevastopol Bed of Honor. Crimean impressions were first conveyed in Fet’s prose (in the article Famusov and Molchalin. Something About Our Nobility (1885)). During the work on the book of memoirs My Memories (1887–1889), the poet’s Crimean impressions were “revived” and found a poetic manifestation in the poem Sevastopol Bed of Honor, dated June 10, 1887. They were initially published as a part of the third issue of Evening Lights. This poem holds a special place in Fet’s lyrics due to its great civic pathos, patriotic ideas, the expression of the Gospel sermon about love and the all-conquering belief that there are no dead for God. An ideal image of the defender of the fatherland is created and the feat of Russian weapons is glorified in Fet’s lyric work. The death motif is the central one Sevastopol Bed of Honor. However, in this work death is nothing like non-being or insignificance (as in the poems Insignificance, To death, Never), but, rather, life in eternity. The features of the poem’s rhythmic structure are analyzed. The most important verse in terms of meaning is emphasized by rhythmic and syntactic means. It is directly related to the Christian understanding of higher love, which is manifested in the willingness to give one’s own life for friends.

Karola Hawliczka Borovskiego wyprawa do Tatr

In the summer of 1842, Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821–1856) traveled from Prague (Czech) to Galicia. He was a good walker, and walked most of the way (over 1000 km). The last stage of his journey was a few days’ stay in the Tatra Mountains. He was then in the Kościeliska Valley, where he inscribed his name on the Pisana rock. After spending the night in Kościelisko, he visited the iron-works in Kuźnice, and moved to Bukowina Tatrzańska. There he wrote a poem in the memorial book. The article discusses this work as one of the most important Czech poems about the Tatras. The main highlight of the journey was a trip to Morskie Oko, after which the poet crossed the moun-tains to Kieżmark.