The Prague Cookbook of Ruth Bratu, or
How a Historian Came to Feel the Past
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9642891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Geyer (0000-0003-0085-2521, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-22 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938919001018 |
| OpenAlex | W3013873853 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
The discussion of the hand-made and hand-written cookbook of Ruth Bratu, who was evacuated from Prague in a Kindertransport in 1939, leads to a wide-ranging exploration of what we expect and what we can know about the cookbook. It discusses its recipes as well as Ruth Bratu's use of the cookbook's pages for handwritten notes about the 1941/42 political gatherings of exiles of the German Social Democratic Workers’ Party in the Czechoslovak Republic in London. Above all, it is a reflection on Alltagsgeschichte, the use of a single document as a vehicle of historical interpretation, and not least the sensory recognition that this cookbook evoked for the author
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Democracy · German · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reflection (computer programming · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · History · Law · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |