Funerary culture in cyberspace. What virtual cemeteries and social media have in common?
The development of intermedia has moved various cultural acts into cyberspace. In the digital world, flattened by the screens of electronic devices, previously known phenomena take a new form, which is forced by the limitations of the medium. Virtual cemeteries are online memorial sites, where users can communicate with each other and present their deceased loved ones, and also create e-tombstones of famous people. Digital cemeteries allow the individualization at the reception. In the article analogies between e-cemeteries and social networking sites are presented. Simultaneously, given the immense popularity of the latter, this work is an attempt to answer the question of whether virtual cemeteries draw from the experience of social media.

The cemetery as a historical source. The example of Yaniv Cemetery in Lvov

Cemeteries are important sources of knowledge in historical research, especially social history of a specific area. Objects of sepulchral art, typically found in cemeteries (gravestones, tombs, chapels) with the original inscriptions and epitaphs, are unique sources which oftentimes enrich the obscure descriptive sources.

Hřbitov jako historický pramen. Na příkladu Janovského hřbitova ve Lvově

Ukrainians at the Central Cemetery in Szczecin

The aim of the text is to reflect on the importance of burials and remembrance of the dead in preserving the national identity of Szczecin’s Ukrainians. The author believes that the cemetery is a place where social and political dependencies related to the ethnic sphere can be observed. The writer’s interests focus on the role of social memory and ethnic moblization.