Kozak/Cossack

[Robert Orr]

There's an article in the Times (the real one, not the imitation published 
in someone's basement on the Hudson) by Geoffrey Wheatcroft from some tiem 
in 1996 tracing the phenomenon back to around 1920, when the new Irish Free 
State insisted on changing Queenstown to Cobh and Kingstown to Dun 
Laoghaire.  Wheatcroft also asks in that context why political parties and 
institutions in Ireland, even in English, are always referred to in their 
Irish forms, such as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Dail Eireann (Parliament of 
Ireland), Fianna Fail (Soldiers of destiny (!!!), etc., etc., when, as he 
puts it, "More Palestinians speak Hebrew than Irishmen speak Irish".

Even Hitler was not immune to this early manifestation of political 
correctness.  William Shirer records a speech where he mentioned de Valera 
as the Iirish Taoiseach, and footnotes it
"Hitler was careful to use the Gaelic word for Prime Minister"

I wonder how he pronounced it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valentino, Russell" <russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Kozak/Cossack


> This example ("St. Volodymyr, ruler of Ukraine") makes perfect 
> anachronistic sense. One merely has to accept the implication that the 
> nation of Ukraine existed in 988...
>
> The phenomenon of renaming in post-Communist space has received serious 
> scholarly attention. It bears some similarities but is not equivalent to 
> renaming in post-colonial space (Bombay, Peking, Bangui). If anyone knows 
> of a comparative study or studies of these two phenomena, please pass 
> it/them on.
>
>
> Russell Scott Valentino
> Associate Professor and Chair
> Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
> University of Iowa
> 319.335.2827
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list 
> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Evgeny Steiner
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:58 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Kozak/Cossack
>
> What is offered by changing Cossacks for 'kozaks' is a part of 
> appropriation
> of the common history by groups of (the) Ukrainian activists. It is 
> similar
> to the inscription on the monument of the Millennium of the Baptism of Rus
> on London's Holland Park Road erected by "Ukrainians in Great Britain": 
> "To
> celebrate the establishment of Christianity in Ukraine by St. Volodymyr in
> 988". In case anybody has misconceptions about Vladimir, there is a
> clarification: "St. Volodymyr, ruler of Ukraine."
>
> ES
>
> P.S. I'll be happy to send a snapshop to those who want to see it by their
> own eyes.
>
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