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- Title
ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ РОЗВИТКУ НОВІТНЬОЇ ПОЛЬСЬКОЇ БІОГРАФІСТИКИ (ЗА МАТЕРІАЛАМИ ВИДАННЯ «POLISH BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES»).
- Authors
Stambol, I.
- Abstract
In the article, we determined the main tendencies of the development of biography in Poland in the early 2000's. In our research, we based on the publication of the scientific journal «Polish Biographical Studies», published in Szczecin since 2015 at the Center for Biographical Studies. The main problems raised by Polish researchers concern the biographies of Polish communists, the military, the multidisciplinary nature of biography, and the division of humanities into periods. Articles contained in the publication are divided into groups by topic, including political, intellectual, collective, female, and separately Jewish biographies. Also, we noted publications of biographical documents. It has been found that Polish biographers are mostly interested in the period of the first two thirds of the twentieth century. In particular, they focus on biographies of thinkers of the Second Rzeczpospolita, educators, and politicians. In our study, we noted the discourse on fighting in the anti-German and anti-Soviet underground. Participation in the church and student organizations, as well as acquaintance with figures like Jozef Pilsudski or Roman Dmowski are very common in political biographies. With no exception for Jewish biographies, where most of the people mentioned as heroes of the uprising and underground movements in the ghetto. Even though they went to Palestine, they remain «Polish» in biographical discourse. Also in «Polish Biographical Studies», most biographies also tend to be political and they "supersede" biographies of engineers, athletes, or artists. Comparing the Polish biographical publication with the «Ukrainian Biography » in 2013--2017, Ukrainians published almost twice as many theoretical works and biographies of scientists. It included more political and collective biographies and the same number of source articles. At the same time, there are more female biographies in the Polish edition, as well as biographies of Jews, while none in the Ukrainian. This explains that biographies of Polish Jews are perceived as the property of Polish society by Polish scholars when such identi- fication almost does not in Ukraine.
- Subjects
SZCZECIN (Poland); PALESTINE; UKRAINE; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); STUDENT organizations; COMMUNISTS; TWENTIETH century; STUDENT participation; POLITICAL participation; JEWISH biography
- Publication
History Pages, 2021, Vol 52, p340
- ISSN
2307-5244
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20535/2307-5244.52.2021.236170