Feast of Epiphany and its traditions
The Feast of Epiphany is, next to Easter, the oldest Christian holiday. It signifies that Jesus Christ came into the world not only for God's chosen people, but for all people on Earth.
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Videos of NIKiDW 2024 grantees.
We begin broadcasting films about the Institute's grantees
In the past 2024, among many other activities, we implemented two flagship programs of the NIKiDW: the 3rd edition of the Master-Student Scholarship Program and the 2nd edition of the Creative Scholarship. In the former, 25 scholarships were awarded to couples, and in the latter, 15 scholarships were awarded to creators. Beginning today, we will begin broadcasting 40 videos featuring the winners of both programs.
Carnival time has come....
Christmas and New Year's Eve are behind us. The time of Carnival has arrived - lavish balls and social events, masquerades and costume parades.
Erasmus Majewski, Stork in the speech and notions of our people
Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Kultury i Dziedzictwa Wsi Oddział w Puławach posiada cenny księgozbiór, który liczy około 360 tysięcy jednostek bibliotecznych, w tym 207 tysięcy wydawnictw zwartych, około 139 tysięcy wydawnictw ciągłych i 12 tysięcy zbiorów specjalnych.
Farewell to the old year - a time of divination and miracles
Nowadays, New Year's Eve is primarily associated with boisterous partying until dawn. In Poland, lavish balls to celebrate the end of the year began to be organized only in the second half of the 19th century. Folk tradition, however, developed customs cultivated by the rural population on this special day. This is because it was believed that what a New Year's Eve, such a whole next year.
Socioeconomic and political changes in the Galician countryside in the 19th century
Social, economic and political transformations are an important element in the study of the history of the Polish countryside. This theme was taken up by Tomasz Kargol in his article The Galician countryside in the 19th century. - social-economic and political transformations, which is part of the publication "Polish Peasants over the Centuries. The state of research and research perspectives," published by NIKiDW last year.
Caroling - a custom older than Christianity....
The word "carolers" today is associated by most of us with groups of children who go around the villages after Christmas and New Year in disguises and sing praises to the newborn Jesus. Meanwhile, the roots of this custom do not come from Christianity.
"The science of arranging, estimating and assessing forests", Warsaw 1846
Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Kultury i Dziedzictwa Wsi Oddział w Puławach posiada cenny księgozbiór, który liczy około 360 tysięcy jednostek bibliotecznych, w tym 207 tysięcy wydawnictw zwartych, około 139 tysięcy wydawnictw ciągłych i 12 tysięcy zbiorów specjalnych.
