The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…By analyzing a number of recordings of Beggar’s Holiday’s opening song, “In Between,” I demonstrate that Ellington and Latouche simultaneously invoked and undermined this aesthetic dichotomy to make an intervention into post-World War II left-wing political debates.…”
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Unreal Cities: the Veterans’ Homecoming and the Fate of Postwar Noir by Benoît Tadié

“…Noir fiction was shaped, in the aftermath of World War II, by a generation of ex-servicemen who wrote, under the guise of crime stories, about the difficulty of returning to American cities and civilian life. …”
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Position statement of the Polish Society of Gastroenterology and the National Gastroenterology Consultant on vaccination against COVID-19 among patients with inflammatory bowel dis... by Piotr Eder, Michał Łodyga, Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Jarosław Reguła, Grażyna Rydzewska

“…It is the greatest civilizational challenge for humanity since World War II. So far, more than 80 million SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2) infections have been reported, and nearly 2 million people have died from this infectious disease (as of 4.01.2021) [1]. …”
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The question of Baltic states in the policy of the Great Western powers in 1943 by Ramojus Kraujelis

“… The fate of the Lithuania and other Baltic States was determined during the years of World War II. The most important, still unanswered question in Lithuanian historiography is when exactly the fate of Baltic States was doomed. …”
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Open Water Jumping: Clearing Obstacles in the Negotiation of French Rights to The Black Stallion by Cécile Cottenet

“…The story of the introduction of the series in France in the aftermath of World War II, and its inclusion in this now-classic library of children’s texts, is largely unknown. …”
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Pedagogical Activities of Graduate (1916) of Riga Polytechnic Institute Jānis Rupais (1889–1974) in Latvia by Alīda Zigmunde, Ilze Gudro, Ilze Ūsele, Ineta Bauere

“…Rupais also reflects on his activities after World War II at Riga Industrial Polytechnicum. It describes both the educational institutions, the principal and pedagogue J. …”
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Status of the Saker Falcon in Hungary between 1980 and 2022 by Janos Bagyura, Tamas Szitta, Laszlo Haraszthy, Matyas Prommer, Marton Horvath

“…The population decreased significantly through the 20th century falling to fewer than 50 pairs after World War II. The main reasons for the population decrease were DDT and widespread persecution (poisoning and shooting) of raptors by hunters. …”
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Гибридизация русского старообрядческого говора в Польше by Stefan Grzybowski

“…The dialect of Old-Believers, who have lived in Poland on North-Eastern borderlands since the end of 18th century, has retained its Russian, Pskovian character for a long time. After World War II it became an island dialect, and in the last 30–40 years, due to a number of reasons, it started to change under growing Polish influence. …”
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«Intended to prepare a march replenishment for active Red Army»: to the history and perpetuation of memory of 39th Omsk reserve rifle brigade (division) by A. V. Sushko

“…The article proved that during the years of World War II, the brigade sent to the front the largest number of fighters in comparison with other units formed in the Omsk region and sent to the front in full force. …”
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Invention d’un nouvel espace public : la collaboration entre Isamu Noguchi et Gordon Bunshaft by Hiromi Matsugi

“…This paper deals with the cooperation that the sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the architect Gordon Bunshaft established in the United States for two decades, following World War II. In spite of the unfavourable context at that time, they worked on several projects that contributed to a renewal of the concept of public space, anticipating the change in urban legislation and the renewal of public art which started at the end of the 1960s. …”
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Signs of Innovation in European Cinema. Electronic Music in Antonioni and Tarkovsky by Gabriele

“… In the process of the emancipation of film music that took place in the first decades after World War II, the filmography of Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrei Tarkovsky offers multiple points of interest. …”
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When Ethnic Identity is a Private Matter by Kjell Olsen

“…This article analyses the change of articulation of ethnic boundaries on the coastline and the fjord areas in Finnmark, Northern Norway in the post-World War II period. From being a ‘social stigma’ in the 1950s a Sámi identity is today something that can be expressed in certain cultural constructed spaces. …”
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Antisemitism in Medicine: An International Perspective by Michael Gordon, Jerome Teitel, Ted Rosenberg, Ruth Oratz, Naomi Katz, David Katz

“…Eventually quotas fell, and the period after World War II once again saw a tremendous growth in numbers of Jews excelling in medicine internationally. …”
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Sole Native Authority (SNA) and the People at War: A Historical Review of the 1948 Erunkoja tax Riot in Ile-Ife by Abiodun S. Afolabi

“…The paper argues that the increase in taxes after World War II had a political underpinning to the protest that led to the Erunkoja riot of 1948. …”
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O dziecięcej tożsamości (tragicznie) zerwanej – gdy przemoc symboliczna może życie ocalić by Maria Szczepska-Pustkowska, Małgorzata Lewartowska-Zychowicz, Longina Strumska-Cylwik

“…The former concerns the analysis of Polish Jews’ childhood experiences from the World War II period, connected with the breaking of the primary national and religious identity and re-integration into a new Polish identity. …”
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Mémoires métisses de la guerre dans A Gesture Life de Chang-rae Lee by Michaël Taugis

“…Franklin Hata, the main character of A Gesture Life is a Japanese immigrant of Korean descent who seems to lead a peaceful life in a small American city but he is in fact haunted by his past as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II, by the crimes and atrocities perpetrated by soldiers and officers. …”
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School of Diplomatic English by D. A. Kryachkov

“…Chair of English Language № 1 considers itself the successor of the English Language Chair, established at the Faculty of International Relations at the Moscow State University during the World War II. After the Faculty was reformed into MGIMO the Department of English Language began to grow rapidly. …”
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A Critical Book Review of Civil Society and Democracy in the Middle East by SeyedSaeid ZahedZahedani

“…This book follows a political development in the Middle East. After World War II, at the time of the U.S. investments in Europe and the third world countries, development became a subject of study in social sciences.  …”
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La revendication bretonne dans la littérature du IIIe Emsav : une inversion des valeurs by Tristan Loarer

“…The decade following the end of World War II failed to rebuild, in Brittany, the popular emulation that certain “nationalist” militants could have wished for around the question of the specific Breton identity. …”
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“Uncle Vova, we are with you!” The use of childhood semantics in Russian political propaganda by Wojciech Siegień

“…The analysis proves that the semantics of the Russian propaganda message is based on patterns from previous eras with an invariant element – World War II, which is a kind of myth about the beginning of the Russian world. …”
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