Tag: Memories

Free Download Joseph P. Feldman, "Memories before the State: Postwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion "
English | ISBN: 1978809514 | 2021 | 212 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Honorable Mention for Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

Free Download Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories across the Modern Mediterranean "
English | ISBN: 0253062926 | 2022 | 236 pages | PDF | 13 MB
A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world in North Africa and Egypt that is lost forever but whose echoes many still hear. Surely, some of these Jewish migrants were already familiar with their new countries of residence because of colonial ties or of Zionism, and often spoke the language. Why, then, was the act of leaving so painful and why, more than fifty years afterward, is its memory still so tangible?

Free Download Francois Hartog, "Memories of Odysseus: Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece"
English | ISBN: 0748614478 | 2001 | 274 pages | PDF | 939 KB
This is a book about identity, about how the ancient Greeks saw themselves and others, and what this tells us in turn about Greek mentality and culture. It looks at voyagers and explorers, at travels in reality and in the mind, and shows what these reveal at key points in Greek history from the creation of Homer’s monumental epic around 700 BC to the high Roman imperial period some eight hundred years later.

Free Download Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors: The Duvakin Interviews, 1967-1974 edited by Slav N. Gratchev, Margarita Marinova, Irina Evdokimova
English | June 1, 2021 | ISBN: 148752725X | True EPUB | 248 pages | 4.5 MB
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin’s purges, and the Second World War. Based on archival materials held at the Moscow State University Library, Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors catalogues six interviews conducted by Duvakin. The interviewees talk about their most intimate life experiences and give personal accounts of their interactions with famous writers and artists such as Vsevolod Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein, and Marina Tsvetaeva. They offer insights into the world of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris, the uprising against the Communist government, what it was like to work at the United Nations after the Second World War, and other important aspects of life in the Soviet Union and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.