Namen: V članku so na primeru zgodovine ter področij delovanja Narodne čitalnice v Kranju od njene ustanovitve leta 1863 do razpustitve leta 1941 predstavljeni pomen in vloga čitalnic, predhodnic ...današnjih knjižnic.Metodologija: Uporabljena je bila historična metoda na osnovi kritične analize virov in gradiva.Rezultati: Kranjska čitalnica je bila skozi celotno obdobje delovanja osrednja mestna kulturna ustanova, saj je združevala knjižnico, gledališče, pevski zbor ter godbo, prirejala slovesnosti in postavljala spomenike, pogosto pa se je angažirala tudi politično. Kljub ne pretirano visoki kvaliteti prireditev so bili z nastankom čitalnice položeni temelji za poznejše kulturne ustanove v mestu.Izvirnost raziskave: Zaokroženje in dopolnitev dozdajšnjih spoznanj iz zgodovine in delovanja čitalnice.Omejitve: Arhivski viri za proučevanje zgodovine čitalnice so razmeroma skromni.
Erased from the Face of God Smiljanić, Ivan
Historical studies on Central Europe,
07/2023, Letnik:
3, Številka:
1
Journal Article
The paper looks into how influential the ideology of economic nationalism was in Slovene lands and in what contexts it appeared. This is explored through a case study of an entrepreneur and ...landowner, Anton Kajfež, and his sons, owners of one of the largest Slovene companies in Kočevje (Gottschee) before World War I and in the interwar period. The company focused primarily on timber trade and became a significant shareholder in many regional companies and banks. Kajfež was a promoter of the local Slovene economy and used his wealth to strengthen it with a series of projects designed to attract Slovene labour, with the goal of overtaking the influence of the Gottscheers, a local group of German origin. The Kajfež family ran up a deficit of several million dinars, so bankruptcy had to be declared in 1928. Because of the close ties the Kajfež company established in the region, the collapse was a major blow to the entire local Slovene economy and politics. The Gottscheers celebrated the company’s demise and its negative impact on Slovenes. The affair is an example of a late interwar national struggle between Slovenes and Germans, much more common in the Austro–Hungarian period.
Članek obravnava zgodovino spominske plošče, posvećene ozemlju Primorske, kijo je po podpisu Rapalske pogodbe leta 1920 zasedla Italija. Odkrita je bila na pobudo Jugoslovanske matice, društva za ...pomoč in podporo zamejskim Slovencem, predsedežem univerze v Ljubljani na Kongresnem trgu 20. marca 1921, kot reakcija na italijanskopraznovanje priključitve istega dne. V obdobju med svetovnima vojnama seje pojavilo več idej, da bi ploščo nadgradili v večji spomenik, toda noben načrt ni bil uresničen. Plošča ni bila le kraj spomina na travmatično ozemeljsko izgubo, temveč je postala kraj studentskih političnih manifestacij, usmerjenih tako proti Italiji in fašizmu kot proti beograjskemu režimu in njegovemu nasilju. Ker je plošča stala na avtonomnem ozemlju univerze, je jugoslovanska oblast ni mogla odstraniti. Uničena in odstranjena je bila med italijansko okupacijo na začetku druge svetovne vojne. Leta 2012 je bila pred univerzo odkrita nova plošča, ki pa seje zaradi preslabega poznavanja zgodovine njene predhodnice spremenila v spominsko ploščo bazoviškim žrtvam.
The article discusses the history of the memorial plaque dedicated to the territory of the Littoral, which Italy occupied after the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920. The plaque was unveiled ...in Congress Square, in front of the Rectorate of the University of Ljubljana, on the initiative of the Yugoslav Society, an association aiding and supporting Slovenians abroad. The inauguration took place on 20 March 1921, in reaction to Italy’s festivities celebrating the annexation, which was carried out that same day. During the interwar period, several ideas were raised to convert the plaque into a bigger monument, none of which came to fruition. Apart from representing a place of memory, related to the traumatic loss of territory, the plaque also became a place of student political manifestations directed as much against Italy and Fascism as the Belgrade regime and its violence. Standing in the university’s autonomous territory, the plaque fell outside the jurisdiction of the Yugoslav government. It was destroyed and removed during Italy’s occupation at the onset of the Second World War. In 2012, a new memorial plaque was unveiled in front of the university building. However, due to a lack of knowledge about the history of its predecessor, it came to be regarded as a memorial of the Basovizza victims.