The artificial product of Austrian diplomacy – which stayed on the maps for 150 years and has not existed now for a century – leads a specific life after life: it is an important point of reference not only for citizens of contemporary Poland or Ukraine but also for many descendants of Central Europe who now live in the United States or Western Europe. For Galicia is rather not a place but a lens which focuses specific relations between time and space.
This issue of “Herito” tries to grasp this phenomenon: it gathers the most important contributions from the conference that accompanied The Myth of Galicia exhibition in Krakow, as well as articles of authors who aimed at portraying contemporary Ukraine: its culture and society that often looks to the Galician past in order to find answers for the question about the future in difficult times.
Content
Editorial
Worth a Look
The Myth of Galicia in Krakow and Vienna
Jacek Purchla, Robert Traba, Krzysztof Zamorski – The Laboratory of Myth
Katarzyna Kotyńska, Tomasz Zarycki – On the Periphery
Edyta Gawron – The Mother of Israel
Taras Voznyak, Mykola Riabchuk, Paweł Kowal, Yurko Prochasko – Halychyna in Ukraine, Ukraine in Europe
Emil Brix, Larry Wolff, Jacek Purchla – Galicia after Galicia?
Żanna Komar – Galicia’s Mystifier. On Vlodko Kostyrko
Larry Wolff – Galicia Invented
Csaba G. Kiss – On “Hungarian” Galicia
Galicia and Human Rights. Stefan Troebst in conversation with Jakub Muchowski
Yulia Lytvynets – Spetsfond at the National Art Museum of Ukraine
Kateryna Botanova – Ukraine Two Years after the Maidan
IZOLYATSIA: Ukrainian Art in Exile ľ Lubov Mikhailova in conversation with Katarzyna Jagodzińska
Worth a Thought – Vladyslav Hrybovskyi, Katarzyna Kotyńska, Patrik Oriešek, Jan Balbierz, Maria Kobielska, Kinga Migalska, Kinga Siewior, Włodzimierz Pessel, Peter Michalík, Łukasz Galusek
Mykola Riabchuk – Postcards
Andriy Lyubka – The Visible and the Invisible in Chernobyl