The Language of Coexistence
Russian-language activists plan further protests against the Latvian law mandating bilingual education. A former Latvian diplomat argues they are doing themselves and their country a great disservice.
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Russian-language activists plan further protests against the Latvian law mandating bilingual education. A former Latvian diplomat argues they are doing themselves and their country a great disservice.
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The anniversary of a fateful day for two nations brings painful memories, renewed claims and counter-claims, and reconciliation.
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As a new school year begins, Moscow authorities have reignited the long-running debate over religious education in schools.
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The unspeakable crimes in Beslan should change Russia's policy toward Chechnya. But there seems little chance of that.
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The two pages featured in this issues under the "Together" heading feature excerpts from the research conducted by Smaranda Vultur. The subtitle is highly relevant: "Banat - Town Life Through Biographical Itineraries" takes the reader on a spiritual journey through the various aspects of Banat, as seen at various moments in history by some of its inhabitants. The interviews have been taken by Adrian Onică, adriana Roşioru, Voichiţa Năchescu, Roxana Pătraşcu and Smaranda Vultur.
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Cristina Chevereşan reviews two volumes that seem to have put together the bulk of the most important articles ever published with regard to Mihail Sebastian's controversial figure."Sebastian Under the Judgement of Time. The Solitude and Vulnerability of the Witness" and "The Mihail Sebastian File" are the two works edited by the Universal Dalsi Publishing House, Bucharest. The reviewer tries to summarize the most important trends that appear in an impressive mass of contradictory information, indicating to the reader the most elloquent contributions and the main issues of the ever ongoing debate.
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Cornel Ungureanu starts the evocation of a legedary figure in the culture of Timişoara (and Europe, in general) from Ioan Holender's event-book, "From Timişoara to Vienna", a superb volume tracing an exceptional - both personal and historical - evolution. The successful head of the State Opera in Vienna is portrayed as the most photogenic man in the history of Timişoara, author of the most beautiful book dedicated to this town and creator of a special international and interpersonal relationship between Romanian, Austrian and European cultures.
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Otilia Hedeşan reviews a compehensive volume coordonated by Smaranda Vultur: "The Saved Memory: The Jews from the Banat Area, Today and Yesterday". The premises of the researcher are highlighted and discussed in detail, the book being recommended as a most thorough investigation into the personal and historical fascination given by life stories as means of retracing community memory.
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Victor Neumann, author of "The History of Banat Jews" subtitles his presentation "The Jews in Timişoara and Banat Between the Two World Wars". He offers a brief but thorough account of the main preoccupations of the community during that time, starting with economic initiatives and going on to the industrial reconstruction of the cities. The importance of Jewish cultural and intellectual influence on the development of the region could not have been overlooked by this thorough insight.
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Valeriu Leu sees Jewish history in Romania as a historiographically defavoured topic. He briefly summarizes the main works published in this field, indicating possible future approaches and pointing out the first attempt at such a synthesis, task undertaken by Felix Milleker in the first half of the XXth century. What follows is a brief presentation of this former head of the Vârşeţ museum, along with a few fragments from his translated manuscript.
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Delia Cursan's review revolves around the powerful figure of First Rabbi, Dr. Ernest Neumann. A special occasion to pay hommage to this exceptional spiritual leader is offered by the publication of two volumes dedicated to his life, work and beliefs. "Ideal and Accomplishment"- honorific volume edited by "The Jewish Reality" - and Victor Neumann's "Individual vs. Collective History. First Rabbi Dr. Ernest Neumann and the Banat Jews" are two books that recuperate landmarks in the spiritual and cultural history of one of Banat's oldest and most representative communities.
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Paul Eugen Banciu's Diary Under Siege is a meditation on human and personal condition, revolving around the concepts of power, illusion, self-destruction, void, principiality. Ion Aireşanu's sections contains, as usual, three concentrated reviews of recent books by young Romanian writers. This issue's attention goes to Monica Rohan, Petru Dinuţ and Cristian Alexandru Miloş.
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Cătălin Mihuleac presents the reader with three short pieces of prose; the fantastic level is reached by a particular type of imagination, which transforms each sequence into a surprising event, quick witted, highly sarcastic and different from the previous narrative frame both in topic and in style.
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The first article represents a personal testimony of the emotions experienced by a zoung Romanian journalist on his first and second visit to Auschwitz. The text, written in the manner of an indirect diary, constitutes an undeniable and extremely powerful proof of the impact the horrid events of world history still have on the rebuked onloohers. The second text reviews Claude Lanzmann's book "Shoah", a touching and magical rendition of the dramatic poem written in blood by the thousands ofJews exterminated in concentration camps all over Europe.
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Having rounded up the cycle of Comments on Canetti, Livius Ciocârlie inaugurates a new series of "comments"; this time, the discourse focuses on the works of Lichtenberg. As usual, the Romanian essayist offers a personal, deep insight into the denotative and connotative mysteries of the literary work. Ciocârlie's "notes on being" continue to impress by means of the openness of his critical and emotional views.
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The first page of this issues "Fiction &Co." section offers a sample of Mircea Pora's writing. The excerpt entitled "The Armchair" is structured as an interview taken to a professor whose existence seems to have been dominated by a special relationship with the word "armchair". The surreal feeling exterted over the reader makes this short prose piece utterly enjoyable.
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In light of the future opening of the "Danilo Kis" Literary Cafe in the center of Timişoara, this issue's last page is dedicated to the well-known Serbian writer. The readers can enjoy an excerpt from his "early Sufferings" volume, in the Romanian version provided by Iasmina Petrovici.
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The Zagreb Slavic School Seminar for foreign slavic scholars at the International Slavic center of the SR of Croatia is marked by a multimedial concept in presenting Croatian studies art and culture. The basic field of research and acquaintance is Croatian Studies in all relevant aspects of art, culture, civilization and scholarship.
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Mit der Veröffentlichung seiner ersten drei Gedichtbände problematisiert Zvonko Maković (1947) von der Position eines damals ausgesprochen jungen Authors vor allem die gedankliche Grundlage des in jener Zeit dominanten Zeichens der Razlogaši (Autorengruppe um die Zeitschrift "Razlog"); der Wunsch der zweifelos gelehrten Razlogaši, durch eine Integration der Problematik eines weltweit aktuellen Philosophierens in erster Linie die zeitgenossische bildliche kroatische Dichtung (intimisch-pay sagistische Lyrik, genetischer Naturalismus) zu internationalisieren, verwirklichte sich darum auch in den Versen Maković's, und zwar als Anschwemmung verschiedenartiger poetischer Ausdruckweisen.
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