SORBS

see Wends.

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books on: Sorbs  - 194 results

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1.
One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups
Book by James B. Minahan; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Ethnology--Europe--Dictionaries, Europe--History--Dictionaries
...sparked the growth of Sorb nationalism. To escape...Prussian rule, many Sorbs emigrated, mostly...1912, pressed for Sorb secession from the...Slavs in 1914, the Sorbs opposition to German...able to speak both Sorb and German. The number...government. In 1929 the Sorbs won the right to use...
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Nations without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements
Book by James Minahan; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Nationalism--History--20th Century, World Politics--1989-
...in 1912, pressed for Sorb secession from the German...fellow Slavs in 1914, the Sorbs opposition to German domination...collapsed in revolution, Sorb leaders declared the autonomy...German government, the Sorbs declared Lusatia independent...on 1 January 1919. A Sorb delegation traveled to...
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 11
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...and television); in infortnal settings Sorbs (both Lower and Upper) tend to speak...east inside Lusatia proper. The Lower Sorbs call themsclves Seiby in their own language...WClldcl1 `Wcnds in German; the Upper Sorbs call themselves Scrhill (.Sur(en lot...
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Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe
Book by Alice Teichova, Herbert Matis, Jaroslav PÁtek; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Europe--Economic Conditions--20th Century, Nationalism--Economic Aspects--Europe--History--20th Century
CHAPTER FOUR Lusatian Sorbs in Germany before the Second World War...group still in existence the Lusatian Sorbs. In the medieval and early-modern periods...tended to promote the survival of the Sorbs language and specific social characteristics...
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Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
Book by Richard Frucht; Garland Pub., 2000
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Encyclopedias
...Oxford, 1992. See also Germanization; Lusatian Sorbs Lusatian Sorbs Residual West Slavic people in eastern Germany. With...within Germany. This effort failed. In general, the Sorbs fared only slightly better under the Weimar Republic...
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journal articles on: Sorbs  - 11 results

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Serbska Bibliografija/sorbishce Bibliographie 1991-1995
Journal article by Gunter Schaarschmidt; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Bibliographic literature, Bibliography, Book reviews, Nonfiction, Sen, Franc, Slavic languages, Sorbs
...media." Two further sections, "Music" and "Public Education," were compiled by Helena Pallmannowa. "History of the Sorbs and of Lusatia" was contributed by Pets Surman, "Sorbian Language" by Irena Serakowa, "Ethnography" by Ines Kellerowa...
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Selbstredend Selbzweit Selbdritt: Serpentine Selves in the Poetry of Roza Domascyna
Journal article by Cheryl Dueck; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Domascyna, Roza, German literature, History & criticism, Literary criticism, Poetry, Poets, Sorbian literature, Writing
...60 000 today. Also called Wends, the Sorbs were among Slavic tribes which migrated...socialist regime in East Germany, the Sorbs were a protected people, and their region...and cultural advantages provided to the Sorbs by East Germany were accompanied by expectations...
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All over the Place: the Early History of the "serbs/slavs"
Journal article by Daniel Buncic; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 46, 2004
Subjects: History, Literary criticism, Minority & ethnic groups, Nonfiction, Serbia Yugoslavia, Vukcevich, Ivo
...Serbs on the Balkans and the Sorbs in Lusatia use the same word...interpretation is clear and simple: The Sorbs are originally Serbs. The largest...Slavic community, more Serb/Sorb (Serbja) than Semitic...of the Slavs (not only the Sorbs in Lusatia) are originally...
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The New "series Minor" from the Sorbian Institute*
Journal article by Gunter Schaarschmidt; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Conferences, Minority & ethnic groups, Problems, Publications, Religion, Slavic languages
...an advocate of the Catholic Sorbs. This role of the Church has...against him was thrown by a fellow-Sorb and devoted Party member in the...Serb Serhej bratr ("May one Sorb be the brother to another Sorb") was no longer valid in his...
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A Darwinian Theory of Ethnicity, "Race," and Nationality
Journal article by Walter L. Wallace; International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 41, 2000
Subjects: Ethnicity--Research, Group identity--Physiological aspects, Human evolution--Research, Natural selection--Research, Sociobiology--Research
...Algerians, Cote dIvoirans, and other groups. The "German" nation includes Saxons, Thuringians, Bavarians, Frisians, Sorbs, Alemmani, Prussians, Turks, and other groups. The "English" nation includes Celts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Scots...
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magazine articles on: Sorbs  - 4 results

 
 
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My Grandfather's Last Tale
Magazine article by Lawrenc Weschler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 278, December 1996
Subjects: Composers, Ernst Toch
...tourist brochure shortly after my arrival at the hotel. The Sorbs, otherwise known as the Wends (and no particular relation...particularly Sorbische about the Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater. Sorbs had been somewhat coddled by the East German regime--that...
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My Grandfather's Last Tale
Magazine article by Lawrence Wechsler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 278, December 1996
Subjects: Composers--Biography, Operas, Toch, Ernst--Biography
...tourist brochure shortly after my arrival at the hotel. The Sorbs, otherwise known as the Wends (and no particular relation...particularly Sorbische about the Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater. Sorbs had been somewhat coddled by the East German regime--that...
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East Germany's Culture Confronts American Pop Culture
Magazine article by Michael Olshausen; Contemporary Review, Vol. 269, October 1996
Subjects: East Germany--Popular culture
...Germanys remaining Jewish community vibrantly attest. But both Russia and the Jewish community of Germany (similarly the German Sorbs) form first-order cultural unities, and a unity always has an outside and an inside. East Germany, on the other hand...
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Czechs on the Media
Magazine article by Michael Kraus; Foreign Policy, January 2003
Subjects: The End of the Czech Press (Book)
...coachmen and accountants of Bundesrepublik Europa," the author warns, and they will follow in the footsteps of the Lusatian Sorbs, an ancient Slavic people whose national identity and independence dissolved in the vast German sea. Celovsky blames the Czech...


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newspaper articles on: Sorbs  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Jaynes Discovered $2.4M Worth of Stupid People Online
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 9, 2004
...To this effect, many ISPs are subscribing to what is known as DNS Blacklists and one called SORBS (www.sorbs.net ) is gaining in popularity. SORBS spend their days hunting down poorly configured mail servers in exactly the same way spammers...
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POST PUZZLER: 50 FOR FUN; Phil Brown's Trivia Quiz
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 13, 2007
...National Basketball Association championships? 35 In which European country do most of the Slavic minority people known as Sorbs live? 36 Scot Ruaridh Cunningham has just won gold in the world championships of which sport at Fort William? 37 By how many...
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`Leipzig Is Coming!': In Constructing Future, City Is Proud of Past
Newspaper article by Richard Slusser; The Washington Times, December 22, 1996
Subjects: Leipzig, Germany
...store in Leipzig. Todays Leipzig is a long way from its origins in about the seventh century as a Slavic settlement - by the Sorbs - at the confluence of the Elster and Parthe rivers. They named it Lipsk, meaning "the place of the limes." The chronicles...


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encyclopedia articles on: Sorbs  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Sorbs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SORBS see Wends . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Wends
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WENDS or Sorbs, Slavic people (numbering about 60,000) of Brandenburg...Srbi and hence are known also in English as Lusatian Sorbs or Serbs. See G. Stone, The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia (1972...
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Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...levied on members of these denominations. Virtually all citizens of the country speak German. Danes, Frisians, Gypsies, and Sorbs or Wends comprise the indigenous non-German-speaking minorities. Since the early 1970s, millions of "guest workers...
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Lusatia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Vienna awarded (1815) Lower Lusatia and a large part of Upper Lusatia to Prussia. After World War II the Lusatian Wends (or Sorbs, as they are also called) sought unsuccessfully to obtain national recognition. ____________________ Copyright...


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