The study analyses and compares the literary images of the assimilation of Jews in the Czech countryside at the end of the 19th century and in the first third of the 20th century in the short stories and features of Vojtěch Rakous (1862–1935), which follow the genre&...

The polarisation in the Swiss party system increased in the last three decades. Party competition led individual parties to find instruments to strengthen party unity at the national level. Because of the unification at the na...

As part of the internal project "Community archeology in a rural environment - meeting social challenges" was the focus of archaeological research to the small village of Myslinka (plzeň-sever district). &...

The article analyzes German-written poetic texts that the Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849-1921) created during his studies at the Evangelical Lyceum in the second half of the 1960s in the town of Käsmark/Kežmarok, which was then inhabited mainly by Germans. Pavol Ország...

The paper deals with problems of evaluation, reference and typology of proverbs. The study is based on Russian and Czech proverbs of truth and lie that are classified according to different types of reference and ways of expressing evaluation. The research shows universal and ...

The article analyzes the characters of the Germans in the works of contemporary Czech prose, focusing mainly on the novels of middle and younger writers: Radka Denemarková Money from Hitler (2006), The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch (2009) by Kateřina Tučková and the novel The Ge...

The study analyzes the novel Němci (The Germans, 2012) of the Czech prose writer Jakuba Katalpa as an attempt at a new perspective on the issue of the life of the German minority in Czechoslovakia from the interwar period to the wild expulsion and subsequent organized...