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August 2015
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Pollitecon Website Redesigned
After many years, the Pollitecon Publications web site has been redesigned.
The look has been changed and there are buttons for each section so
getting around should be easier. There is also room for a few ads. If
you get a moment, see the new design and let me know what you think.
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Life in Aegean Macedonia
Four articles have been added to the online book, Life
in Aegean Macedonia.
The Violence
of Racism and the Implications for Minority Women is an early article
by Malina Stankovska and Pandora Petrovska. It examines race-based institutional
and physical violence against the Macedonians in Australia, and identifies
sources of oppression endured by minority women such as those of Macedonian
background.
Language
Maintenance and Macedonian Adolescents is an early article by Chris
Najdovksi. The research project looked at 40 students in Melbourne,
their attitudes to the Macedonian language and its maintenance, and
whether the Macedonian second generation wants to preserve their culture
and traditions through the use of the Macedonian language.
Creolisation
of the Macedonian Speech of Macedonian Immigrants in Canada, Especially
of those from Aegean Macedonia is a new article by Macedonian author,
Slave Nikolovski-Katin. The article looks at the development of the
language that Macedonian immigrants use in Canada, especially in Toronto,
and the creolisation of Macedonian speech. This look at the characteristics
of the "separate language" used by Macedonian immigrants is
insightful and entertaining.
The Village of Bouf by
Anastas Dimitroff is about the history of the village and life there
under the Ottomans. The article was originally published by the Bouf
Mutual Benefit Association in their 25th anniversary booklet in 1949.
The author was born in 1880 and died in 1970. He first came to the US
in 1904 where he ran a bakery and was later ordained a deacon in the
Orthodox church.
The Big Water
Pollitecon's book The Big Water made it on to the European Society of
Authors' Finnegan's List for 2015. This is an annual selection of under-translated
or forgotten works recommended by 10 prominent writers from around the
world. Zhivko Chingo's Golemata Voda was published in Skopje by Makedonska
Kniga in 1971 and translated into English by Elizabeth Stewart and published
by Pollitecon in 2004. The name of Finnegan's List was inspired by James
Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. The nominator of Golemata Voda for Finnegan's
List was Nikola Madzirov, a Macedonian poet, editor, essayist, translator
and winner of the Miladinov Brothers award and the Hubert Burda Prize
for Literature. There is more information about The Big Water here.
Free Ebooks
Several new books have been added to the Free
Ebooks section:
Secret
Combined Monthly Intelligence Review GREECE - June 1946 by the GSI
(General Staff Intelligence) is an intelligence report on the political
situation at the time in Greece including northern Greece. There are
developments in the Greek Civil War and Macedonian elements such as
"NOF Espionage activities in Greece", Armed bands in Macedonia,
"Autonomous Activities", "Left- wing banditry",
and "Right-wing Activities" among many others. Many individuals
are also mentioned, some from the Florina region.
Ideological
Activism – Macedonians Under Greece by Stoian Kochov takes
a critical look at the disaster of the Greek Civil War for Macedonians
and the political manipulation of the Macedonian people in Greek occupied
Macedonia by the Communist International and the Communist Parties of
Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia during the war years of 1940 to 1950.
The book is translated from Macedonian to English and edited by Risto
Stefov. There is also a Macedonian
version.
A
Century of Silence by Stoian Kochov has been updated with a second
edition that contains more current information. The book looks at the
Macedonian left and right during the Greek Civil War and discusses the
Kostur freedom fighters, a "compact group organized in 64 Kostur
Region villages with more than 9,800 armed Macedonian revolutionaries
who stood up bravely and with dignity against Hellenism and were unwilling
to accept Hellenization and give up their Macedonian national identity".
The book is translated from Macedonian to English and edited by Risto
Stefov. There is also a Macedonian
version.
A
Book about Risto Mavrovski is "a story told about a person
from Zhelevo". It is written by and has comments by his son Spiro
Mavrovski. The book has information on the Mavrovski family extending
back many generations and much information on the village Zhelevo. The
book is translated from Macedonian to English and edited by Risto Stefov.
There is also a Macedonian
version.
Testimonials 2001
by Pande Petrovski looks at the military crisis in Macedonia in 2001
that was brought on by the terrorist activities of the Macedonian-Albanians
from the NLA. The author was a General in the Macedonian army. In 2001
he was promoted to the rank of
Chief of Staff of General Headquarters and was Commander of military
operations. The book was translated from Macedonian to English and edited
by Risto Stefov. There is also a Macedonian
version.
Declassified
Documents Compiled by Risto Stefov is a collection of direct quotes
on the subject of Macedonia from the declassified information of governments,
statesmen, diplomats and agents of various Foreign Offices during the
1940s. The author says the information helps to answer questions such
as: How much did the governments know about the Macedonian Question?
What did Macedonia's enemies say about Macedonia and the Macedonian
people? And How did the Great Powers influence events that were aimed
against the Macedonians?
Detailed Maps of Macedonia
The Detailed Maps of Macedonia section has a new map titled The Macedonian
Campaign 1916, by the Admiralty War Staff who were part of the British
Navy. The map covers the western and central regions of Aegean Macedonia
and has the Macedonian names of the villages. See here.
Macedonian Communities
The Macedonian Communities Around the World section has a list of 20
Macedonians from Neret who settled in Akron and Barberton in Ohio, USA.
See here.
Essays
The Essays section has four early
speeches by Victor Bivell on the 1994 attempted renaming of the Macedonians
in Australia and on the issues affecting Macedonians from Greece. The
first speech, titled Australia
is not Greece, was delivered at the Macedonian demonstration outside
Parliament House in Canberra. The second speech, Macedonians
and the Political Mainstream, was given at the public meeting on
Human Rights for Macedonian Australians held in Wollongong. The third
speech, The
Politicization of Ethnic Affairs, was given at the Macedonian demonstration
in Sydney. The fourth, titled Issues
Affecting Macedonians from Greece, was delivered at the Macedonian
Conference on Women, Aged and Youth held in Sydney and discusses problems
that affect Macedonians in Australia and in particular those Macedonians
who come from Greece.
New Books by Other Publishers
On
Macedonian Matters edited by Professor Victor Friedman (University of
Chicago) and Dr Jim Hlavac (Monash University) contains 15 chapters
on texts the international scholarly conference organized by the Australian
Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) at Monash University in 2013.
Subtitled: From the Partition and Annexation of Macedonia in 1913 to
the Present, the focus is on modern Macedonian history with a common
theme being concern about the subjection of the Republic of Macedonia
to "blockade politics" and an "absence of respect and
recognition for Macedonian language, nationality and ethnicity".
The book is published by the academic publishing house Verlag Otto Sagner
and is available from the AMHRC here.
The
Last Summer in the Old Bazaar by Vera Bu arovska and translated by Paul
Filev. This is a powerful autobiographical story of the author's childhood
and her hometown Bitola, Macedonia, under German and later Bulgarian
occupation, during the Second World War. The story is about the friendship
between the 11 year old Macedonian girl who narrates the story and two
12 year old boys with whom she works at Gazda Mito's small restaurant
in the Old Bazaar: Sami an Albanian, and Leon a Jew. Paul Filev is a
Melbourne translator, editor and blogger. The book launch will be held
at Reader's Feast Bookstore, 162 Collins Street, Melbourne on Saturday,
5 September at 3pm. The book is published by Saguaro Books. See here.
Tvoreshki
Opus i Patriotski Knigi na Makedonksi Avtori od Iselenishtvoto by Janko
Tomov is about The Creative Opus and Patriot Books by Macedonian Authors
from the Migrant Community. Written in both Macedonian with some English,
this book discusses the author's many books and the stories around them.
There is also a section on other authors and their books including Risto
Stefov, Victor Bivell, Mile Ilievski, Vasil Bogov, Ivan Trposki, Gordana
Dimovska, Ireneuzs Adam Slupkov, Dragan Bogdanovski, Dimitris Litoksou,
Goce Durtanoski, Dr Krume D. Starkovski, Andrea Branov, and Doncho Nacionale.
To purchase a copy, email the author here.
Prviot
KongresPrviot svetski kongres za Makedonski chovekovi prava vo Adelaid
1990 godina by Janko Tomov. Written in Macedonian, this book is about
The First World Congress for Macedonian Human Rights held in Adelaide
in 1990. It also contains numerous photographs and reproductions of
resolutions, newspaper articles, constitutions, manifestos and other
historical documents about Macedonian human rights. To purchase a copy,
email the author here.
Mojot
Pridones Za Makedonia by Janko Tomov discusses the author's Macedonian
activism, political events and the Macedonian political organizations
DOOM, VMRO-DPMNE and AMKCHP in the diaspora from 1970 to 2014. The book
is mostly in Macedonian with some English.
LOMA Weekly Herald is a new weekly newsletter about the activities
of the League of Macedonian Americans in advancing the Macedonian cause.
The Herald is a source for educational, cultural, and historical information
on Macedonia. The League promotes Macedonian culture, protects the Macedonian
identity, and helps to bring Macedonian-Americans closer to each other
and their homeland. The newspaper, free and in PDF format, is here.
The Macedonian Communities Around the World section has a link under
the village German to the book titled History and Religion of Macedonia:
Gateway to Europe, by Stan (Stojan) Malian. The book is about the village
of German where many groups have invaded and claimed the area as their
own. The village has links to early Christianity. The book also reports
about family affairs and traditions in the people's every day lives.
See here.
The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) has a UMD Amazon Bookstore where
it suggests about 100 books on Macedonian themes that are available
through Amazon.com. Most are in English and from top level authors on
a wide variety of subjects. Shopping there also helps the UMD. See here.
The "Music of Macedonia, Playing 'Til Your Soul Comes Out"
is a new CD of field recordings of Macedonian music collected by music
and dance ethnographer Martin Koenig in 1968 and 1973. These are only
known recordings of these traditional musicians. There are three styles
of Macedonian traditional music: Christian female village singing, Romani
(Gypsy) zurli-tapan ensembles, and the Ottoman Turkish urban ensemble
called calgija. The CD is produced by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
and Balkan Echoes with assistance from the United Macedonian Diaspora,
the International Music and Art Foundation, and other donators. The
CD will be released on 28 August. See here.
Discount for Complete Set of Books
A reminder that a complete set of 12 Macedonian books published by Pollitecon
can be purchased at a discount of free postage in Australia and reduced
airmail postage overseas. See Here.
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