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Book recommendations: Albanian history
I know we’re all pretty focused on a different part of Eastern Europe right now, but I’ve read a few great books about Albania recently that I wanted to highlight because its such an overlooked country with an amazing amount of history:
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi: this is a memoir about what it was like to live through the fall of Albania’s authoritarian communist regime and the chaotic and destructive birth of a multiparty capitalist state as a child and teenager. Ypi provides a fascinating insight into what it’s like to grow up in total isolation from the outside world, as well as a hard look at the failures of both Soviet-style socialism and free market democracy.
A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B by Ismail Kadare: Kadare is one of Europe’s most celebrated novelists and this is a prime example of why. This book paints an intense psychological portrait of what it’s like to be an artist in an authoritarian state and the experience of living in internal exile, which thousands of people were subjected to under dictator Enver Hoxha’s reign. Beautiful and haunting.
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices from Communist Albania by Margo Reimer: a lot of people have compared this to the oral histories of Svetlana Alexievich, and for good reason. Reimer, a Polish journalist, lets people speak in their own words about their experiences of living in one of the world’s most isolated and repressive regimes. Consistently, the speakers grapple with the impossibility of making sense of a system of senseless cruelty, and how to move forward in a country where there has been no accountability for past atrocities and many of the promises of freedom continue to be hijacked by corruption.
Fan Noli’s famous poem “Anës lumenjve” (1928) performed by actor Timo Flloko in the Albanian movie “Lulëkuqet mbi mure” (1976) (lit. “Red poppies on walls”)
Text and translation below:
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Albanian serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1917
Foto Marubi, Shkodra/Albania XXc
A series of historical texts describing the massacres, situation and invasion of Albania and the regions outside of Albania up till 1910s to 1940s.
Leo Trotsky: Behind the Curtains of the Balkan Wars (1912) - As a young journalist, Russian revolutionary Leo Trotsky experienced at first hand the Serbian invasion of Kosovo and Macedonia in October 1912 and described it in all its horror in a report back to a Ukrainian newspaper.
The New York Times: A Trail of Blood (1912) A report that appeared in ‘The New York Times’ on 31 December 1912 on the Serbian invasion of Kosovo.
Frankfurter Zeitung: The Balkan War (1913) A front-page newspaper editorial in Germany denounces Serbia’s extermination policies of the Kosovo Albanians during the First Balkan War in 1913.
Egon Erwin Kisch: The Shelling of Shkodra and the Burning Down of the Bazaar (1913) A German journalist visits Shkodra just after the Montenegrin assault of April 1913.
Leo Freundlich: Albania’s Golgotha … (1913) The full text of Austrian publicist Leo Freundlich’s moving book on the Serbian invasion of Kosovo in late 1912.
Dole in Dibra: Official Report … (1913) This report, published in December 1913, detailed the carnage caused by the Serbian invasion of the Dibra and Luma region along the present Albanian-Macedonian border.
Consul von Heimroth: Report on the Situation in Skopje and Kosova … (1913) - Correspondence from the Austro-Hungarian consul in Skopje on the chilling situation there and in Kosova (Kosovo) following the Serbian invasion.
Archbishop Lazër Mjeda: Report on the Serb Invasion of Kosova and Macedonia (1913) - Mjeda was the Catholic archbishop of Skopje from 1901-1921. He reports to the Vatican here on the carnage caused by the Serbian invasion of Kosova (Kosovo) and Macedonia in the autumn of 1912.
Austro-Hungarian Vice-Consul Kohlruss: The Situation in Prizren - An Austro-Hungarian official reports on the situation in Prizren one year after the Serbian conquest of Kosovo.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Report on the Serbian Invasion of Kosovo during the First Balkan War - Short report of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concerning the Serbian invasion of Kosovo during the First Balkan War, 1912.
British Foreign Office report: Vlora in the Summer of 1914 - Letter from Edith Durham on the chaotic situation in Vlora on the eve of the Greek invasion.
Christo Dako: Terrible Greek Atrocities in the District of Kortcha - Albanian journalist Christo Anastas Dako informs Aubrey Herbert in London about the atrocities committed by Greek troops in southern Albania in early 1914.
Mid’hat bey Frashëri: The Epirus Question - the Martyrdom of a People -Political figure Mid’hat bey Frashëri denounces the destruction of much of southern Albania by Greek military and paramilitary forces in 1913-1914.
Statistics of the Rugova Massacre - Statistics of a massacre in the Rugova Highlands in Kosovo in February 1919.
Rexhep Mitrovica & Bedri Pejani: A Kosovar Protest - A letter to the Great Powers from two Kosovar intellectuals to appeal for assistance against the Serbian annexation of Kosovo.
Gjon Bisaku, Shtjefën Kurti & Luigj Gashi: Albanian Minority in Yugoslavia Three Catholic priests in Kosovo present a memorandum to the League of Nations on the desperate plight of their people under Serbian rule.
Convention Regulating the Emigration of the Turkish Population … - An international treaty between the governments of Yugoslavia and Turkey for formalise the start of the expulsion of the Albanians and Turks from Kosovo, Macedonia and southern Serbia.
Edith Durham: Albania - An overview of Albanian history and a plea for justice following the Italian invasion of Albania.
The Resolution of Bujan - The 1944 resolution of the Conference of Bujan, that promised the right to self-determination and even secession for Kosovo, was a document of great significance to the Kosovo Albanian population, but was subsequently ignored and forgotten.
Eyewitness Account of the Expulsion of the Chams from Greece - An account of the massacre in Filat (Filiates) and the expulsion of the Albanian Chams from Greece in September 1944.
British Report on the First Cham Congress of Vlora - A British military document reporting on the First Cham Congress held in Vlora (Valona) on 23 September 1945.
Committee of Cham Albanians on Greek persecution of the Chams - A protest by the Cham Anti-Fascist Committee following the expulsion of the Albanian Cham community from Greece.
Rexhep Qosja: The Albanian Question and its Solution - Kosovar intellectual figure Rexhep Qosja provides an overview of the Albanian question in Yugoslavia, written during the last decade of Serb rule in Kosovo.
Tomka and his friends (Albanian: Tomka dhe shokët e tij) is a 1977 Albanian drama film directed by Xhanfise Keko.
The Wehrmacht arrives in a small Albanian town, after Italy capitulates to the Allies. Tomka and the other boys of the village are furious when the German soldiers set up camp on their playing field, and decide to fight back by helping the partisans. The movie was mostly shot in the city of Berat, Albania.
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Traditional filigree work: Perfume Bottle and Jewellery Box from Shkodër, Albania (probably 19th Century)
1- Peja/Peć market scene, 1954.Albanian men on market day, Serbian woman on right with her market basket, and peasant bearing load of hay.
2-Peja/Peć street scene, 1954. Albanian man uses cows to haul wagon; Muslim woman with black head covering seen in foreground.
3-Peja/Peć street scene, 1954.Albanian men with skull caps in foreground; ice cream (sladoled) stand on left; electrification poles in background; and no cars.
4-Urban housing in Peja,Peć, ca. May 1954. Urban housing in Peja’s Albanian Muslim community; note drains in middle of street and enclosed courtyard, limited windows facing street.
Beautiful pictures of the city and people of Peja/ Peć , Kosovo, taken between 1953-1954 by the University of Massachusetts anthropologist Joel Martin Halpern. With his wife, Barbara Kerewsky , Halpern spent many years of field work in the Balkans and is best known for his studies of the effects of modernization in the Balkans and documenting he dynamics and change in village life in the Balkans. They have left a very rich collection of photography which is conserved at the UMass
1 - Wooden spoons at Ohrid market, ca. 1962. Albanian men in skull caps shop for wooden spoons and related items, sold by gypsy. Women in Orthodox peasant dress viewable in right background.
1- Vegetables and cooking utensils at Ohrid market, ca. 1962. Albanian man handles wooden bowls, perhaps to purchase. Orthodox women sell wool in background.
3- Leaning on green peppers at Ohrid market, ca. 1962. A Muslim merchant (possibly Slavic-speaking) leans on his sack and basket of green peppers; man on right is Albanian.
4-At Ohrid market, ca. May 1954. Albanian muslims at market; donkey equipped with wooden saddle.
5-Edge of Ohrid Lake, ca. May 1954 Ohrid Lake, at Albanian border with guard house; note plowed strip marking the boundary.
Beautiful pictures of the city and people of Oher/ Ohrid , Macedonia, taken between 1952-1962 by the University of Massachusetts anthropologist Joel Martin Halpern. With his wife, Barbara Kerewsky , Halpern spent many years of field work in the Balkans and is best known for his studies of the effects of modernization in the Balkans and documenting he dynamics and change in village life in the Balkans. They have left a very rich collection of photography which is conserved at the UMass
Traditional dance of Dropull, Albania, 1960
The constitutional assembly in Tirana declaring the monarchy and proclaiming Ahmet Zogu as King of the Albanians, 1. September 1928
Jam njeriu pyll, njeriu zog, njeriu det, dhe njeriu peshk.
Cili i ngjajshëm si unë do më qëllojë me shigjetë?
Cili—me thoni më ka futur në rrjetë?
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I am the human forest human bird human sea and human fish.
Who like me is going to shoot me with an arrow?
Who—tell me who— trapped me in the net?
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Cili?
Moikom Zeqo
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Graphic - Jean-Léon Gérôme
Melon carts going to the bazaar, Shkodër, Albania, 1921