Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2023.2244481
Vahur Aabrams
ABSTRACT This article focuses on four poems written in Half-German by three Baltic German authors: ‘Die Oberpahlsche Freundschaft’ (1818/1857) by Jakob Johann Malm, ‘Karluscha Tattelbaum’ (1903) and ‘Benjamin Paul Püttisepp’ (1909) by Arthur Usthal, and ‘Reise ins Ausland’ (1954) by Walter von Wistinghausen. Literature written in Half-German emerged in a particular socio-historical and linguistic context, which is outlined in the first part of the article. The focus of this article is on the nineteenth century – the heyday of this literary tradition. All four poems will be discussed in the context of carnival culture according to Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of popular culture.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2022.2144395
Keiu Telve, Kirsti Vill, Siiri Silm
ABSTRACT People who are simultaneously embedded into multiple countries are referred to as transnationals. We have investigated the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) on the transnational communities of Estonia, one of the world’s frontline countries when it comes to technological usage. We conducted interviews with Estonians who permanently live abroad to discover how ICT helps them stay connected with their country of origin. Transnational Estonians ensure the continuance of their connections via ICT. Thus, they directly participate in their home countries via ‘ways of being active,’ which strengthens their transnational identities.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2023.2231746
100 liecības par Latviju otrajā pasaules karā, by Ilze Jermacāne, et al., Riga, Latvijas kara muzejs, 2023, 252 pp., €62.00, ISBN 978-9934-604-97-3 1991. Liktenīgais gads: hronoloģija, edited by Artis Ērglis, Riga, Latvijas Mediji, 2023, 288 pp., €20.00, ISBN 978-9934-29-175-3 Aegade lugu: kirjanike liit ENSV-s, by Sirje Olesk, Tallinn, Eesti Kirjanike Liit, 2022, 303 pp., €24.00, ISBN 978-9916-9815-0-4 China in the Baltic states: from a cause of hope to anxiety, edited by Māris Andžāns and Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Riga, Rīga Stradiņš University, 2022, 98 pp., ISBN 978-9934-618-15-4 Danish–Estonian relations in the Middle Ages, by Mihkel Mäesalu and Stefan Pajung, Fredriksborg, Museum of National History, 2022, 363 pp., 249.00 kr, ISBN 97887-93049-47-5 Drošības aspekti Latvijas vēsturē, by Guntis Zemītis, Riga, LU Akadēmiskais aprgāds, 2023, 592 pp., €32.00, ISBN 978-9934-18-958-6 Eesti mütoloogia algajale: jumalatest ja hiidudest tontide, näkkide ja muude õudasjadeni, by Marju Kõivupuu, Tallinn, Tänapäev, 2023, 384 pp., €35.00, ISBN 9789916-17-332-9 Eesti talutoolid, by Liisi Jääts, Mariliis Vaks, and Indrek Tirrul, Tartu, Eesti Rahva Muuseum, 2022, 220 pp., €40.00, ISBN 978-9949-548-98-9 Elu esiküljel: Eesti ajalehtede esiküljed 1821–2021, by Tiit Hennoste and Roosmarii Kurvits, Tartu, Tartu Ülikooli Raamatukogu, 2022, 174 pp., €27.00, ISBN 9789985-4-1298-5 European fascist movements: a sourcebook, edited by Roland Clark and Tim Grady, London, Routledge, 2023, 426 pp., £120.00 (hbk)/£33.00 (pbk)/£30.00 (ebook), ISBN 978-0-367-26285-3 (hbk), 978-0-367-26286-0 (pbk), 978-0-429-29237-8 (ebook) Holokausto postsekuliarumas: tarp kritikos ir supratimo, by Nerijus Šepetys, Vilnius, Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2022, 388 pp., €20.00, ISBN 978-609-07-0779-1 Kamēr vēl laiks: fotoetnogrāfijas sākums Latvijā, edited by Ilze Antēna, Riga, Latvijas nacionālais vēstures muzejs, 2023, 191 pp., €24.00, ISBN 978-9984-747-57-6 Latviešu atmiņas par otro pasaules karu, by Ivars Sniķeris, Riga, Jumava, 2023, 182 pp., €13.00, ISBN 978-9934-20-630-6 Latviešu literatūras klasika kā kritiskās domāšanas impulss, by Ausma Cimdiņa, Riga, Zinātne, 2023, 224 pp., €11.50, ISBN 978-9934-599-46-0 Latvija: neatkarības pēdējais cēliens, by Aivars Stranga, Riga, Mansards, 2023, 462 pp., €19.00, ISBN 978-9934-12-257-6 JOURNAL OF BALTIC STUDIES 2023, VOL. 54, NO. 3, 687–688 https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2231746
《拉脱维亚第二次世界大战的100个证据》,Ilze Jermacāne等人著,里加,拉脱维亚战争博物馆,2023年,252页,62.00欧元,ISBN 978-9934-604-97-3,1991年。流年:年代学,ArtisĒrglis编辑,里加,拉脱维亚Mediji,2023,288页,20.00欧元,ISBN 978-9934-29-175-3 Aegade lugu:kirjanike liit ENSV-s,Sirje Olesk,塔林,Eesti kirjanike liit,2022,303页,24.00欧元,ISBN978-9916-9815-0-4波罗的海国家的中国:从希望的原因到焦虑,Māris Andžāns和Una Alexander Berzium Cherenkov编辑,里加,Ríga Stradiņš本科,2022,98页,ISBN 978-9934-618-15-4《中世纪丹麦-爱沙尼亚关系》,作者:Mihkel Mäesalu和Stefan Pajung,弗雷德里克斯伯格,国家历史博物馆,2022,363页,249.00 kr,ISBN:97887-93049-47-5《拉脱维亚历史上的安全问题》,ISBN 978-9934-18-958-6 Eesti mütoloogia algajale:jumalatest ja hiidudest tontide,näkkide ja muudeõudasjadeni,Marju Kõivupuu,塔林,Tän apäev,2023,384页,35.00欧元,ISBN 9789916-17-332-9 Eesti talutoolid,Liisi Jääts,Mariliis Vaks和Indrek Tirrul,Tartu,Eesti Rahwa Muuseum,2022,220页,40.00欧元,ISBN 978-9949-548-98-9《Elu esiküljel:Eesti ajalededee esikü的ljed 1821-2021》,作者:Tiit Hennoste和Roosmarii Kurvits,Tartu,TartuÜlikoli Raamatukogu,2022,174页,27.00欧元,ISBN 9789985-4-1298-5《欧洲法西斯运动:一本资料书》,由Roland Clark和Tim Grady编辑,伦敦,Routledge,2023,426页,120.00英镑(hbk)/33.00英镑(pbk)/30.00英镑(电子书),978-0-367-26286-0(pbk),978-0-429-29237-8,ISBN 978-9984-747-7-6《第二次世界大战的拉脱维亚记忆》,Ivars Sniķeris著,里加,朱马瓦,2023,182页,13.00欧元,ISBN 9789934-20-630-6《作为批判性思维冲动的拉脱维亚文学》,Ausma Cimdiņa著,里加:科学,2023年,224页,11.50欧元。,19.00欧元,十亿欧元978-9934-12-257-6《波罗的海研究杂志2023》,第54卷,第3期,687–688https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2231746
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2023.2230699
Māris Graudiņš
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2023.2230695
Virgil I. Krapauskas
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Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2023.2230692
J. M. Baxenfield
the legal status of women (Stikāne) is viewed, extends until 1400. While such chronological discrepancies are perhaps inevitable in a collection by several contributors, it would have been helpful to explain the selected chronological boundaries, both those of the individual articles as well as that of the volume as a whole: why 1350 was chosen as the upper chronological limit for the book is never fully explicated and the reader has to resort to an educated guess. In sum, the volume is a very valuable contribution to our understanding of the processes transpiring in the present-day Latvia and Estonia in the postcrusades period. The book is a body of thorough research that keeps up with the latest trends in the field and takes a step further in attempting to try to bring the medieval Livonians closer to us.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2023.2229833
T. Friedenthal
ABSTRACT Religious poetry, which has once been read and written in different languages in the areas of present-day Estonia and Latvia, has so far remained largely unexplored. In medieval Livonia, there are hardly any traces of local poetry, but the situation changed with the Reformation. During the sixteenth century – linked to the development of congregational singing – psalm poetry became particularly active. In the seventeenth century, the Passion of Christ emerged as a new and well represented topic. The focus of this article is on this distinct genre, which aims to explore in verses the Passion of Christ as a whole.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2023.2230696
M. B. Richardson
the plaque. More onerous antisemitic acts have occurred all over Lithuania, such as swastikas painted on synagogues and in front of Jewish schools. Lithuanian social media remains quite active in fueling more antisemitism. Written in English and translated into 40 languages, Foti’s book will have to be included in Lithuania’s historiography of the Holocaust, but the memoir genre does not lend itself to objective history. Despite the book’s shortcomings, Foti has exposed her ‘heroic’ grandfather as a žydšaudis, responsible for the deaths of 10 –15,000 Litvak deaths. Her book is one part of the larger story revealing the culpability of Lithuanians in the extermination of 220,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
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