Spotlights
- Gluhi in svet : med odrinjenostjo in vključenostjo
- “The More Determined Opponents of Semitism”
- From a Complete Stranger to a Dear Friend
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Gluhi in svet : med odrinjenostjo in vključenostjo
SpotlightThe Ljubljana Institute for the Deaf-Mute was built with
the resources from various benefactors’ bequests. Dean Ignacij
Holzapfel was the most generous of them. In his will, he dedicated
his fortune to the construction of an institute for the deaf
youth from Carniola, who were educated in German institutions
and thus alienated from their homeland. This was another
display of his patriotism, as were his previous unsuccessful attempts
to publish the Slovenian weekly newspaper Slavinja.
With the construction of the Institute in Ljubljana in 1900, the
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“The More Determined Opponents of Semitism”
SpotlightBased on the examined sources, one cannot avoid the conclusion that the attitude of Slovenian liberalism in Carniola towards Jews was, as a rule, multidimensional, occasionally contradictory, and (almost) always dismissive. Simultaneously, it also opposed the attitude towards Jews adopted elsewhere in Europe by the political orientations which the Carniolan liberalism shared its name with – albeit with reservations.
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From a Complete Stranger to a Dear Friend
SpotlightThe monograph provides the first comprehensive overview of how Slovenians became acquainted with Japan, its people, customs, and culture. In the 1980s, Zmago Šmitek began researching peoples living very far away from Slovenia, focusing primarily on learning about nations and cultures from various parts of the world. Meanwhile, the book at hand, titled Od popolne neznanke do prisrčne prijateljice (From a Complete Stranger to a Dear Friend), focuses on how our ancestors came to know one particular people, in this case the Japanese, through media contributions, travelogues, reports from...