The article presents two likely and so far unknown compilers of the third edition of Koniáš’s Key from 1770. Their names have been revealed by a handwritten note in a copy that was originally a part of the library of the private collector Josef Bartsch (1731-1803). Concerning the first figure, the Jesuit Josef Kögler, the treatise describes his career in the Jesuit Order and the posts that he held. In the case of his co-worker Jan Kohout, the text outlines the possible connections that might help identify him precisely. and David Mach.
On March 11th, 2008 one hundred years will have passed since the death of Josef Hlavka, one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 19th century in former Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a prominent architect and the most distinguished patron of Czech science and the arts and founder and first president of Czech Academy of Science and the Arts, the predecessor of today´s Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The 100th anniversary of the death of Josef Hlávka has been cited by UNESCO as a World Cultural Anniversary. and Josef Pechar.
Autor pochází z rodiny bělehradských sefardských Židů, za války prošel italským internačním táborem, poté pracoval jako jugoslávský novinář. Na sklonku kariéry se vrátil ke svým etnickým kořenům a začal systematicky sbírat svědectví jugoslávských Židů o jejich životě, a zejména osudech za druhé světové války. Prezentovaná práce je poslední z pěti publikací, v nichž tyto výpovědi zpracoval. Zde zachycené vzpomínky mají podle recenzenta zásadní význam pro dokumentaci osudů židovské komunity na Balkáně za války, obsahují však i mnoho důležitých informací o mezietnických a mezikonfesních vazbách a o každodenním životě v této části Evropy v první polovině minulého století., The author of the work under review comes from a Belgrade family of Sephardic Jews. During the Second World War he was interned in Italian camps. After liberation, he worked as a Yugoslav journalist. Towards the end of his career he returned to his roots, and began systematically to collect Yugoslav Jews’ testimony about their lives, particularly during the Second World War. The book under review is the most recent of five publications in which he has compiled these testimonies. The recollections recorded here are, according to the reviewer, of fundamental importance for the documentation of the lives of members of the Jewish Communities in the Balkans during the Second World War, but they also contain much important information about interethnic and interconfessional links, as well as about everyday life in this part of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century., and [autor recenze] Jan Pelikán.