On December 13, at the Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University, the award ceremony for Wacław Felczak and Henryk Wereszycki. The main prize was awarded to Dr. Kamil Ruszała for the book Galician exodus. Refugees during the First World War in the Habsburg Monarchy”. The honorary prize was awarded to Prof. Michał Masłowski for the work entitled Central and Eastern European myths and political symbols
The founders of the prize are Wydawnictwo Literackie and the Dean of the Faculty of History at Jagiellonian University. Wacław Felczak and Henryk Wereszycki were awarded for the 22nd time this year.
About the award-winning books:
“Galician Exodus…” presents the forgotten experience of exile during the First World War. The author contacted Austrian, Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Polish sources to show the situation from flight and evacuation during the different years of the war, through the stay in exile, until the question of returns or stay in the successor countries after 1918. At the same time, it is a story about the intercultural relationship of the inhabitants of the same monarchy, who met only in the conditions of a war crisis, just before the agony of their country.
To understand Central and Eastern Europe, a journey through the labyrinth of national myths and symbols of our subcontinent is essential. It would be hard to find a better guide than Michał Masłowski for this trip. With a sure hand, he guides the reader through the twists and turns of this unique world, where one can quickly get lost, because everyone (generally) only knows its myths and its symbols. Reading these myths and symbols of our nations allows us to understand not only the similarities and differences of these stories, but also their relativity. And that is perhaps the most important lesson of this book – to understand oneself in the mirror of others…
List of works nominated for the Prize in 2022:
1. dr Aleksandra Sylburska, Activity of the Polish diplomatic mission in Hungary (1945-1956), Łódź 2020
2. dr hab. Anna Szczepanska-Dudziak, prof. US, “Szczecin as a Czechoslovak window on the seas and oceans”. Szczecin in Polish-Czechoslovak Relations 1945-1989, Szczecin 2021
3. dr hab. Grzegorz Gąsior, Czechoslovak state policy towards national minorities in Czechoslovak Cieszyn Silesia in the years 1920-1938, Warsaw 2020
4. dr hab. Mirosław Szumiło, Secret Priests. The story of the illegal stay of Slovak verbists in Poland in 1957-1964, Warsaw 2022
5. dr hab. Rafał Reczek, dr Áron Máthé, prof. dr hab. Stanisław Jankowiak, Dr Rafał Kościański, Cities of Freedom. Poznań-Budapest 1956, Poznań-Warsaw 2021
6. Dr. Kamil Ruszała, Galician exodus. Refugees during the First World War in the Habsburg Monarchy, Krakow 2020
7. Dr. Krzysztof Popek, Muslims in Bulgaria 1878-1912, Krakow 2022
8. Dr Piotr Krężel, Serbian Ethnos. The era of Patriarch Arsenij IV Jovanovic Šakabenta (1698-1748), Lodz 2021
9. Dr. Tomasz Jacek Lis, high Polish officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the years 1878-1918. Prosopographic study, Krakow 2020
10. Prof. dr hab. Michał Masłowski, Myths and Political Symbols of Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw 2020
