Great War

Elżbieta Katarzyna Dzikowska works at the University of Łódź, the Department of Literature and Culture of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The main areas of her academic research include German 20th-century literature, Polish-German comparative literature and gender issues.Agata Handley works as a lecturer and a researcher at the University of Łódź, the Department of Literature and Culture of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The main areas of her academic interest are literature translation, British culture and contemporary British poetry.Piotr Zawilski is the director of the State Archive in Łódź. He is the Vice-President of the Association of Polish Archivists and a former director of the State Archive in Piotrków Trybunalski.

• Contents: Piotr Zawilski: The Łódź War Losses Assessment Committees (Łódzkie komisje szacunkowe strat wojennych) - an undervalued source for research of the Great War in the Łódź region – Tomasz Walkiewicz: Polish military formations of the First World War in documents preserved at the State Archive in Łódź – Kamila Pawełczyk-Dura: The influence of World War I on the activity of the Russian military and naval clergy – Ionela Zaharia: Christian Religious Experiences within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Great War – Anna Caban: Archive traces of the drama of war. Sources for investigation into the daily life of inhabitants of cities in the Opole District in the archival fond of the State Archive in Opole – Marek Szczepaniak and Grażyna Tyrchan: World war from a local perspective. School chronicles from the border areas of the Province of Posen (Prowincja Poznańska) as a source of information – Tomasz Matuszak: The organization and the operations of the League of Women of the War Emergency Service – Sławomir Jan Maksymowicz: East Prussia as the only province of the German Empire occupied during the Great War. Wartime histories of East Prussia – Magdalena Żakowska: Ivan and aria for the dying world. The image of Russia in the propaganda of the central powers during the Great War – Frank M. Schuster: Between paralysis, crisis and renewal: The effects of the war on the polyhedral industrial city of Łódź (1914-1918) – Marcos Silber: Jews, Poles and Germans in Łódź during the Great War: Hegemony via Acknowledgment and/or Negation of Multiple Cultures – Krzysztof Paweł Woźniak: Betrayed twice. The German community in the Kingdom of Poland during the Great War – Andrea Brait: War museums at the former frontline between Austria-Hungary and Italy during World War I – Hassan A. Jamsheer: The Middle East and the Centenary of the Great War.