KOSMAS

Czechoslovak and Central European Journal

Spolecnost pro vedy a umeni (SVU) oznamuje, ze obnovila vydavani sveho anglickeho casopisu KOSMAS. Pred sametovou revoluci tento casopis predstavoval dulezite forum pro svetovou akademickou obec, zajimajici se o ceske a slovenske zalezitosti.

KOSMAS bude nadale pokracovat v tradici publikovani vedeckych, ale sirsi verejnosti srozumitelnych, clanku z oboru humanitnich a socialnich ved, umeni a literatury. Je to jediny anglicky psany vedecky casopis, ktery je zameren predevsim na minulost i soucasne deni narodu v Ceskozemi , na Slovensku a v sousednich statech.

Prestoze svym obsahovym rozsahem by se hodil i nazev "Kosmos", jeho dnesni jmeno KOSMAS je poctou kronikari a mnichovi toho jmena, jenz ovladal mnoho ved a umeni sveho casu a byl autorem slavne "Chronica Bohemorum".

Tato kronika, dnes skoro tisic let stara, je neobycejne vymluvnym traktatem o dobe raneho stredoveku v Cechach. Sam Frantisek Palacky, "Otec naroda" a vyznamny vudce ceskeho narodniho obrozeni, prohlasil, ze Kosmas (1045-1125) byl "skutecnym Herodotem sve zeme."

Sefredaktor: Bruce Garver, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Distribuce: Layne Pierce, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Recenze: Mary Hrabik Samal. Oakland University

Pomocny redaktor: Daniel Miller, University of West Florida

Pomocna redaktorka: Mila Saskova-Pierce, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Redakcni rada: Antonie van den Beld (Universiteit Utrecht ), Peter Demetz (Yale University), Lubomir Durovic (Lunds Universitet), Zdenka E. Fischmann (Phoenix, AZ), David R. Holeton (Trinity College, Toronto), Wilma Iggers (Canisius College, Buffalo), Owen Johnson (Indiana University), Jan Milic Lochman (University of Basel), Antonin Mestan (Slavonic Institute CAV, Prague), Jaroslav Opat (T.G. Masaryk Institute CAV, Prague), Leopold Pospisil (Yale University), Mojmir Povolny (Lawrence University), Miloslav Rechcigl (Rockville, MD), H. Gordon Skilling (University of Toronto), Jan Francis Triska (Stanford University), Bronislava Volkova (Indiana University), Sharon Wolchik (George Washington University), Piotr Wandycz (Yale University)..

Obsah svazku XII, cislo 1 (1996)

MEMOAR

Zdenek V. David,"The War, the Nazi Protectorate, and Victory: Reflections

BASNE

Jaroslav Seifert,"Three Poems." Prelozila Vera Borkovec

Bronislava Volkova,"Eleven Poems." Prelozila autorka a Lilli Parrott

Libuse Cacalova,"Four Poems." Prelozila Vera Borkovec

CLANKY

Michael Kraus,"Assessing 1996 Elections in the Czech Republic." Judith Fiehler,"Giving Shape to Spirit: Reflections on the Style of Dvorak's American Quartet and Quintet." Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr.,"Czech Contributions to American Scientific and Technological Thought" Howard Louthan,"A Reappraisal of J. A. Comenius's The Labyrinth of the World in Light of His Subsequent Writings on Educational Reform." Thomas A. Fudge, "Visual Heresy and the Communication of Ideas in the Hussite Reformation."

RECENZE:

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Obsah svazku XII, cislo 2 (v tisku)

BASNE:

Jan Skacel, "Selected Poems." Prelozili Lyn Coffin and Zdenka Brodska

Lorraine Duggin, "Three Poems"

CLANKY:

Bronislava Volkova, "The Unbearable Heaviness of Being. Or is it Lightness ? Kundera's Values." Hugh Agnew: "'Like One of Our Own': Masaryk and America." Mary Hrabik-Samal, "The Velvet Revolution's Aftermath: The Last Three Years of Czechoslovakia." Michael J. Kopanic, Jr., "Victory in Round Three: Meciar's 1994 Electoral Triumph." Oliver Pollak, "A Medical Memoir of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration Camp by Felix Bachmann, M.D." T, Mills Kelly, "The Czech National Council and the Slovaks, 1907-1914." David Smart,"View from a Prague Window: Anti-Utraquism and Baroque Architecture in Prague." Jiri Sehnal, "On the Use of the Baroque Trumpet in Sacred Music in Moravia." Translated from Czech by Judith Fiehler and Milada Hornova.

RECENZE:

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Redaktori vitaji prispevky, at uz clanky ci recenze, tykajici se ceskych, slovenskych a stredoevropskych dejin, umeni, literatury, politiky, narodohospodarstvi a vyvoje prirodnich ved a technologie. Tez budou vitany clanky o slovenskych a ceskych pristehovalcich a jejich potomcich ve svete.

Clanky posilejte redaktorovi na adresu:

Bruce Garver,

Dept. of History,

University of Nebraska at Omaha,

Omaha,

NE 68182-0213.

Phone: (402)554-4824;

FAX: (402)554-2794;

e-mail: bgarver@unomaha.edu

Jednorocni predplatne na KOSMAS je $22 pro cleny SVU, $27 pro necleny jednotlivce a $30 pro instituce. Ohledne predplatneho piste na adresu: Mr. Layne Pierce, Managing Editor, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0315. Phone: (402)472-1336; FAX (402)472-0327; e-mail:mzs@unlinfo.unl.edu

Zajemci o clenstvi v SVU necht se prihlasi u jejiho predsedy na adrese: Mila Rechcigl, 1703 Mark Lane, Rockville, MD 20852. Phone / FAX: (301) 881-7222, e-mail: rechcigl@aol.com