Chernivtsi

The main idea of the project Multi-Cultural Memory and the Continuity of Traces. Chernivtsi in the Bukovyna is the seizing of the "phenomenon of memory" on Ukrainian Bukowina with special regard to the Chernivtsi- the capital of region - through the reconstruction of layers of memory on subject, e.g. of the fight for integrity and the identity of religious communities ( Orthodox, Protestants', Armenians Roman Catholics, Greek Catholics, Jews) during changes in borders, state organisms as well as the second world war. These changes influenced status and the existence of concrete denominational groups, enlarging or shrinking the possibility of contact between localities. It was of such enormous symbolic importance and dimension, it often produced the narrations subordinated to the rule of integrality which are the different views on the same reality. After traumatic events of the 20th century Bukowina became a physically inaccessible reference for many communities, which now (thanks to former occupants' of these terrains memory)try to reproduce former religious communities (The former inhabitants of these terrains now live mostly in Israel, Canada, Poland, Germany) .

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