#Eastern Europe books

[vintage-russia]

"The Russian Story Book" illustrated by Frank C.Papé (1916)

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

2010 Ukrainian stamps with children's book themes.

[luchia-a]

Haven’t posted in awhile

It’s already fall 🍂🍁🎃

[bellezzamortale]

"#...rafans who for the most part had. ahem #some strong opinions on juan carlos ferrero" oooh can you say more pls im curious

oh it's really just exactly what you think it would be, lmao.

idk if you were on tennis twitter during the peak big 4 era, but if you weren't the one thing you've got to know is that it's nothing like the cute little tennis tumblr community. on here we all love out faves and if we have players we don't like, we mostly keep it to ourselves.

meanwhile 2010s tennis twitter? was insanely tribal. it was a battle field where most fans of the big 3 thought of themselves as footsoldiers in the war effort of establishing their fave as the GOAT.

rafans, fedfans and nolefam have been on the warpath since forever. in the 2010s when roger was still at the peak of his powers some fedfans hated rafa so much i once saw one of them refer to him as "sewer slime". lots of fans are completely convinced all the other big players are dopers and only their personal favourite is clean, and that the other players are faking their injuries and only their personal favourite is really hurt, etc etc.

so of course when juanki took little jabs at rafa every once in a blue moon in interviews, how many hardcore rafans were saying "aw he's had a rough go at it with injuries for years, and rafa is a young upstart who came in and totally stole his spotlight, i can see how that could be upsetting, lets give the man a bit of grace"? uh. not a lot 😭😂

so my introduction to the man was basically only rafans making snide comments about him being jealous and a bad sport, because he was already retired for a couple of years when i joined twitter so i never got to saw him play live.

the strangest part of it all was that i distinctly remember a couple of rafa fans (i could probably count them on one hand though) who just... distrusted ferru by association? because if ferru was so close with someone who clearly didn't like rafa, then surely ferru himself had to bear a grudge against rafa and was just hiding it really well!!! they were constantly on the lookout for the most minor infraction, i got unfollowed by like 5 people over a completely harmless joke ferru made after the 2015 rio open final that people adamantly took out of context.

good times! everyone was completely off their rocker and i wouldn't have missed it for the world 😌

[queerlitaroundtheworld]

6 Queer Books from Eastern Europe

1. The Summer Without You by Petar Andonovski (North Macedonia)

2. Lovetown by Michał Witkowski (Poland)

3. Bolla by Sajtim Statovci (Kosovo)

4. Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu (Moldova)

5. Queer Ukraine: An Anthology of LGBTQI+ Ukrainian Voices During Wartime by DVIJKA Collective (Ukraine)

6. Passion by Brane Mozetič (Slovenia)

[canisalbus]

Gawd i love your art so much it reminds of my fairytale books and it inspires me so much-

Ah, I love those! I've been collecting vintage and antique children's books for over ten years already, mostly fables and other animal themed stories. The illustrations in them are some of my biggest inspirations.

[unhonestlymirror]

Guys, who's gonna tell her?

Molotov-Ribbentrop pact who?👀

[iristhegoogoodolls]

[rotzaprachim]

to an extent I feel really uncharitable about European and/or western authors but also authors in general refusing to translate their works into Hebrew because the thing is that there once were a bunch of publishing houses and presses that published books in Hebrew, alongside other Jewish languages and Jewish books in shared languages, outside of ha medinas and those were all destroyed along with the rest of Jewish culture in many of these places without new presses being built and established in these areas. If you refuse to translate a book to Hebrew due to the politics of hamedinas it’s incumbent on authors to provide an alternative way for their books to be published in Hebrew or for presses to be built outside of that context.

[thatpoorfraulein]

I fucking HATE communism if you are a commie GO AWAY

/very VERY srs

[vintage-russia]

From "Russian Beadwork.The Russian Museum" (1975)

[quotesfrommyreading]

The East is also where the Nazis had most vigorously pursued the Holocaust, where they set up the vast majority of ghettoes, concentration camps, and killing fields. Snyder notes that Jews accounted for less than 1 percent of the German population when Hitler came to power in 1933, and many of those managed to flee. Hitler's vision of a “Jew-free” Europe could only be realized when the Wehrmacht invaded Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Baltic States, and eventually Hungary and the Balkans which is where most of the Jews of Europe actually lived. Of the 5.4 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, the vast majority were from Eastern Europe. Most of the rest were taken to the region to be murdered. The scorn the Nazis held for all Eastern Europeans was closely related to their decision to take the Jews from all over Europe to the East for execution. There, in a land of subhumans, it was possible to do inhuman things.

  —  Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (Anne Applebaum)

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Rakhiv, Zakarpattia region, Ukraine.

[atopvisenyashill]

i know i’m always bitching about gaps in the collection at my job and my weird patrons but LISTEN my six the musical readalikes is doing surprisingly well (i shouldn't be surprised, library patrons in general love historical fiction especially bad historical fiction lmao) so i was looking to refill it and i wanted some more ~diverse titles and we have one (1) book about black royals in fiction and as far as i can tell like....absolutely fuck all on asian royals? which reminded me about how grrm has bitched at several points about how there's not a lot of good historical fiction on moorish spain or the maghreb in medieval era, and that's what he likes to read above all else - not a historical tome but history as a story, history written from the point of view of someone interesting.

this post has no point beyond me and george both agreeing there is a HEINOUS, near CRIMINAL lack of popular historical fiction about anywhere outside of europe. someone get on this so that old man can get more excited about world building in dorne pls!!!!

[karolinastast]

Masopusť!

slavic tradition of dressing up, feasting and dancing. Hand stitched, embroidered and printed on a risograph.

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[pamietniko]

Shakespeare a Synové

Prague, Czechia