
Multicultural Commonwealth
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Stanley Bill is associate professor of Polish studies and director of the Slavonic Studies Section at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Czeslaw Milosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity, coeditor of The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature, and translator of Milosz's novel The Mountains of Parnassus.
Simon Lewis (Author)
Simon Lewis is associate professor of Eastern and Central European cultural history at the University of Bremen. He is author of Belarus-Alternative Visions: Nation, Memory, and Cosmopolitanism, coauthor of Remembering Katyn, and coeditor of Regions of Memory: Transnational Formations.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Proper Nouns, Place Names, and Transliteration
- Introduction: Diverse Histories and Contested Memories | Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis
- Part I: The Commonwealth in History
- 1. How Jewish Is the History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? | Magda Teter
- 2. Multiconfessionalism and Interconfessionality: Religious "Toleration" in Royal Prussia, Lithuania, and the Ruthenian Lands | Karin Friedrich
- 3. Encounters with Islam within the Commonwealth's Borders and Beyond | Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
- 4. Art and Transcultural Discourse in the Ukrainian Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | Olenka Z. Pevny
- 5. Sarmatia Revisited: Maps and the Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | Tomasz Grusiecki
- 6. Confessions, Confessionalization, and the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | Richard Butterwick
- Part II: The Commonwealth in Memory
- 7. The Ukrainian Sublime: Nineteenth-Century Polish Visions of the East | Stanley Bill
- 8. Imagining the Past and Remembering the Future: Oskar Halecki, Lewis Namier, and the Burden of History | Robert Frost
- 9. Whose Grand Duchy? Contesting the Multicultural Past in Lithuania and Belarus | Rustis Kamuntavicius
- 10. Polish-Belarusian Encounters and the Divided Legacy of the Commonwealth | Simon Lewis
- 11. Jewish Heritage Revival in the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian Borderlands and the Myth of Multiculturalism | Magdalena Waligórska, Ina Sorkina, and Alexander Friedman
- 12. A New Multiculturalism in Poland: Memory of the Past and Migration from Ukraine | Ewa Nowicka
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index
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