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The contribution presents a complex bibliography of texts related to the only Czech village in Bulgaria — Vojvodovo, written in Bulgarian and published up to 2020. The items are arranged in an alphabetical order according to the author’s surname; where the name of the author is missing, the item is arranged according to the first letter of the title.
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Some Problems in Adaptation of Czech Settlers in North-West Bulgaria
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The contribution has three layers. The first one, that is not presented here, is a text “Memories of the life of Czechs who lived in Voyvodovo” written in Bulgarian by an inhabitant of the only Czech village in Bulgaria — Voyvodovo, and a neighbor of Voyvodovo Czechs, Bulgarian Božidar Popov, a son of the local Methodist pastor. The second layer — the core of the contribution — is a work of a Voyvodovo Czech and Popov’s peer Barbora Čižková. She translated Popov’s memoirs, or better to say she rather strongly interprets it and supplements it by her own commentaries and memoires. The last layer, written by the editor, is the analysis and commentary of the two preceding layers, each of them in itself and in mutual comparison. The contribution presents not only new information on history of Voyvodovo, but also a confrontation of Czech and Bulgarian views of the local Czech community.
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This study treats the evacuation of children from war-afflicted Croatia, specifically from Daruvar, to the Czech Republic in the early 1990s. It was not only the children of ethnic Czechs living in Daruvar, but also all children in the war-torn region without regard to their nationality who were able to be registered for the transports hat were organized by Czech ethnic organizations – the League of Czechs and Slovaks in Yugoslavia [Svaz Čechů a Slováků v Jugoslávii] and the Czech Primary School J. A. Komenský – with the help of the government of the Czech Republic. The goal of this study is to reflect, on the occasion of the approaching thirty-year anniversary of the departure of these children from Daruvar, on the role of the Czech minority in Croatia during the period of the war, in relation to the effectuated evacuation of these children, and also upon the person of Lenka Janotová, who was the president at that time of the League of Czechs and Slovaks in Yugoslavia, which had initiated the entire operation, organized it, and who substantially ensured the smoothness of its running. It is mainly thanks to her that about 1340 children and mothers with small children were rescued from the greater township area of Daruvar, and they spent nearly five months (from September 1991 to January 1992) in Czech asylum, accompanied by teachers and other caregivers. We reflect upon this historical episode on the basis of study of source materials stored in the archive of the League of Czechs in the Republic of Croatia, and through analysis of witness narratives acquired through oral history methodology.
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The article’s topics is current context and relations within a community of Czechs living in Bulgaria; the text is focused on the last twenty years. The article makes a closer look into the community and distinguishes main groups of Czechs or other people connected to the Czech Republic. The descendants and the heirs of large historical Czech communities in Bulgaria are members of Czechoslovak Compatriots’ Club in Sofia and its’ two other branches in Plovdiv and Varna. Another significant group of Czechs living in Bulgaria are temporarily settled expats. The article describes those two main groups, defines their sub-groups, main activities, tries to locate them and quantifies the groups. The second part of the article brings an overview of what types of socio-cultural institutions there are — compatriot’s clubs, the Czech cultural centre, organized activities of academics — and what the institutions offer to the compatriot’s community.
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The present essay does not aim to map in detail the institutional developments within the community of the Viennese Czechs nor does it focus on its social transformation, although it makes use of this broad framework. Its primary focus is on reflections and celebrations of Czechoslovak public holidays and other important days in the Czech-Viennese milieu. One of the central questions is to what extent Czechoslovak festivities resonated spontaneously there, and to what extent the Czechoslovak state contributed to the motivation for these ceremonies as an indoctrination tool.
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A native of Poděbrady, poet, editor of the socialist press, pedagogue and federal official, Josef “Joe” Martínek (23 March 1889 — 20 March 1980) lived in the United States from a young age and joined all three resistance movements. He took part in Masaryk’s foreign action during the First World War; as an official of the Czechoslovak National Council of America (ČSNRA), he was instrumental in fundraising for Edvard Beneš in the spring of 1939, thanks to which the former president was able to initiate the struggle for the liberation of the republic following the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia; and, finally, he also aided exiles who fled Czechoslovakia after February 1948 and found a new home overseas. This text is an as yet unpublished transcript of Martínek’s memoirs recorded by Zdeněk Hruban, founder of the Archive of Czechs and Slovaks Abroad at the University of Chicago.
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