Issue 4 / 2016. The Bulgarians in Bessarabia and Tavria. Issue editor: Petko Hristov

 Table of contents 

Petko Hristov – The Bulgarian Communities in Ukraine in the Beginning of the New Millennium – the Changing Perspectives.

Svetlana Koch – Strategies of Identification of the Bulgarians in Ukraine.

Zhenia Pimpireva – The Family in the Life Stories of the Bessarabian Bulgarians.

Galin Georgiev, Elena Vodinchar – The Fairs at the Landmark. Intervillage Patronal Festivals of the Bulgarian Immigrants in Bessarabia – Observations and Hypotheses.

Alexandr Prigarin – “The Balkan Accents” of the Odessa Central Market (“Privoz”): to the Problem of the Ethnic Components in the Urban Cuisine. 

Blagovesta Ivanova – Painters and Photographers of the 19th century in Search and 
Presentation of the Bulgarian National Identity in Russia.

MATERIALS

Maria Pacheva, Sergey Pachev – Migration as a Means of Surviving of the Tavrian Bulgarians during the Famine of 1946­-1947.

Mila Santova – Bulgarians in Slovenia. Primary Observations on the Bulgarian Diaspora in Slovenia.

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Aleksandar Kovalov – The Calendar Rituals of the Bessarabian Bulgarians in the Sources and the Academic Literature.

IN MEMORIAM

Valentina Sharlanova – Tsvetan Todorov (1939–2017) – the Apostle of Humanism, the Visionary of Freedom.

MUSEUMS

Petko Hristov – Days of Cultural Heritage at IEFSEM­-BAS – 2016.

Elena Vodinchar – “Ethnographic Etudes. Dedicated to Dimitar Marinov!”

Anita Komitska – Exhibition “Dr. Evdokia Peteva­ Filova – Back in the Palace”.

Iglika Mishkova – Exhibition “Ex­Votos” at IEFSEM ­- BAS.

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Bozhidar Aleksiev – Bernard Lory or on the Art of Creating Sources.

Elena Vodinchar – Budzhak: Historical and Ethnographic Essays on the Peoples from the Southwestern Regions of the Odessa Province. Odessa, 2014.

Valentina Vaseva – A. Luleva, Iv. Petrova (Eds.). Studies of Cultural Memory, Cultural Heritage and Identities. Sofia, 2015.

Albena Georgieva – Petar Shukerov, Ivan Patev, Dimitar Mihaylov. The Earth Looks at the Sky. People and Christian Orthodox Shrines in the Central Rhodope Mountains. Sofia, 2015.

Valentina Sharlanova, Petia Bankova – Brunnbauer, Ulf. Globalizing Southeastern Europe. Emigrants, America, and the State since the Late Nineteenth Century. New York, 2016.

Authors in the issue