Cultural identity and ethnicity in Central Europe : proceedings of the International Conference on Ethnic and National Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, May 11-16, 2000 / academic editor, Czesław Robotycki.

Includes bibliographical references.

Ethnicity and identity : some interpretative suggestions / Czesław Robotycki -- Multi-ethnic society and minorities rights -- A comparative analysis of the United Nations Declaration for Protection of the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities and the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities / Minna Nikolova -- The multi-ethnic region of Bucovina : is it possible to achieve ethnopolitical stability? / Natalya Lazar -- The minorities of St. Petersburg : in search of social stability / Dmitry Dubrovsky -- The Crimean ethnic experiment : an inside perspective / Kiril Sharapov -- The linguistic aspect of interethnic relationships in Belarus / Sviatlana Piskun -- The role of women in establishing tolerance and pluralism in multicultural societies : (based on fieldwork in the Asenovgrad Region, Bulgaria) / Borislava Kirilova-Daskalova -- The problems of ethnic identity -- The past and present differences in the ethnic orientation of the Karashevians in multi-ethnic Banat (Romania) / Mihai Radan -- The lost origin tradition : a case study of the Karaševci from Banat (Romania) / Castilia Manea-Grgin -- Assimilation or acculturation : creating identities in the new Europe : the case of Vlachs in Serbia / Mihai Viorel Fifor -- On the Kosovo myth / Krzysztof Piątkowski -- Ethnic minorities among dominant majorities -- After the Soviets : indigenous minority situation in the Komi Republic within the Russian Federation / Ilia Mitiouchev -- The Poles of Lithuania : a national minority in the period of political and economic transformation / Sebastian Schröder -- The Polish minority in Croatia before and after the fall of Former Yugoslavia / Salomea Pamuła -- The Polish minority in the Bucovina Region in the 1990s : national revival or national stagnation? / Vitaliy Motsok -- The image of the native land in the consciousness of the Polish minority in Southern Bucovina (Romania) and its role in sustaining a group identity / Tomasz Ostrowski -- Russian minority in Moldova before and after 1989 / Lilia Crudu -- The Gagauz minority in the 20th-century Republic of Moldova / Igor Caşu -- When a Tartar man wants to marry a Romanian woman / Laura Jiga -- The Romanian Roma under the communist regime and after Its fall / Monica-Ioana Vladescu -- The Stereotypical Images of the Neighbours -- Polish-Ukrainian Ethnic Stereotypes in History Textbooks / Viktoriya Sereda -- The Czech Minority in Poland and National Stereotypes / Eva Pavlíková -- "We and the Others": The Image of the In-Group and Out-Group in the Oral History of the German Minority in Slovakia / Zuzana Búriková -- Too Close to Be Tolerant? / Ingunn Vagstein -- Patterns of Ethnic Prejudice and Contemporary Life / Lazar Nikolić -- -- The Problems of Anti-Semitism -- The National Idea/Policy and the Jewish Minority in Lithuania in 1927-40 / Egle Bendikaite -- Competition in Suffering: about Nationalists and Jews in Poland / Tone Staum

English, with Polish summaries.