Zagłada księgozbiorów przyczyną i miarą kryzysu inteligencji. Ogólnopolskie wnioski z doświadczeń Kalisza

• Authors: Przemysław Pawlak

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The annihilation of book collections as a rationale and a measure of the intelligentsia crisis. The case of Kalisz as an exemplar for Poland

Abstracts

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In August 1914, the Germans destroyed about 90% of residential buildings in Kalisz. One form of Germanisation used in the Second World War was to fill Balbinka – the canal of the Prosna river – with book collections. At one time, Kalisz was a capital of the kingdom, nowadays it is only a regional county urban centre. Generation by generation, the city has been experiencing a brain drain to the three large academic centres: Poznań, Wrocław and Łódź. It also became a victim of economic migration. To what extent have the wartime cultural artefact losses been an underlying reason for the current demise of the status of the oldest city in Poland? Is the destruction of a community’s book collections a harbinger heralding its marginalisation?

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 229-240

Contributors

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Przemysław Pawlak

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2017.95.16

Biblioteka Nauki

1848294