Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.32728/h2013.06
The Reading Room was founded by “a handful of Slovenian brethren” in a desire “to show the world, that they are proud of their most dignified name, of their beloved tongue”: Slovenian societies in Pula 1886-2011
Barbara Riman
orcid.org/0000-0003-2006-256X
; Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja
Abstract
The article presents the founding and the activities of Slovenian societies of Pula from the late 1880’s until today. Based on data gathered in the archive and other places, the founding of the societies, as well as the activities of their members, has been presented. Furthermore, the discontinuation has been presented of some Slovenian societies who were active in Pula. Not only their activities were shown; the article unfolds some of the questions which talk of the importance of societies, as well as the processes and the reasons behind creation of societies which were entangled with socially-political events, this especially goes for the reason for their discontinuation. The article uses different scientific methods: historiography method, analysis method, method of synthesizing, comparative method and generalization. From the chronological overview of the Slovenian societies of Pula, one can deduce that at certain points in time they advocated different values which were a priority for their members at the time. Societies were, at the very beginning, first of all a place for the newcomers to gain certain security as well as material and spiritual support; the culture was only a secondary aspect. This existentialist dimension occurs within every Slovenian society which were active on the territory of Republic of Croatia up until the end of Second World War. In the recent times the activities of Slovenian societies are solely cultural. The activities of the societies throughout history have been the keeper of “Slovenianism” in Pula, but also, those settlers, as members of Slovenian societies, have had an impact on the culture of the city, as well as acquainting and bonding the two neighbourly nations.
Keywords
Istria; Pula; self-organizing; minorities; minority societies; Slovenian minority; Slovenian societies of Pula
Hrčak ID:
132867
URI
Publication date:
12.12.2013.
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