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Send us a textIn Episode 282, I have the merit of speaking with Sami Steigmann, who is a Holacaust survivor, educator and motivational speaker. A few years ago, our 50th Podcast Guest Esther Deutsch,his honorary granddaughter, told me about Sami. I was excited to meet him at a Kosha Dillz Chanukah concert, in which he danced on stage. Sami was born on December 21, 1939 in Czernovitz, Bukovina, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire belonging to Romania. From 1941 through 1944, he was with his parents at Mogilev-Podolsky, a labor camp in an area called Transnistria. The camp was liberated by the Red Army and his family was deported by the Romanians, not by the Germans. In 1961, his family emigrated to Israel, where he served in the Air Force. In 1968, he came to the United States. He lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he married, divorced and eventually, in 1983 returned to Israel. However, in 1988, he returned to the United States, choosing New York City as his final home. Since then, he has spoke to thousands of people as an educator and motivational speaker. We speak about empathy, an overview of the history of the Holocaust since World War 1, knowledge versus action, overcoming obstacles, the global chess community, the benefits of chess, positivity and more.    

No Longer An Enemy.Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels."My Sister wished to know if you speak Mandarin," the brother translated for me."Hi, I'm Cáel," I greeted him. "Who are you guys?" He looked to one of the two goons holding on to me. I received a painful kidney punch. I discovered a whole new super-power. It hurt for about two seconds then nothing."I asked you a question," he repeated."No, I don't speak Mandarin," I lied so well it came across as a dour confession."Yet you know the secretive language of the Earth & Sky," he stated."Yes, I do. I have a thing for dead languages. Maybe in a few more years, I'll pick up your Mother Tongue as well," I bantered.No punishment was immediately meted out, so I suspected no one close to me, besides him, spoke much if any English. Jian Bob (my new name for him) didn't relay my insult. I wasn't worth it. He went straight for the reason for our get-together."You are going to die, Mr. Nyilas. That is a given," J B began."We both know you have done enough damage to our cause to be worthy of elimination a hundred times over. I'm going to show you respect by not lying to you about your possible fate. What you can do is save your young companion. We understand you two are close," he appealed in a very polite manner. Aya snickered."Cáel, these people are mentally challenged," she giggled to me, "or hideously misinformed.""I know, I know," I smiled down at Aya. "Still, they have gone through a great deal of effort to insult our intellect today, so let's humor them a little longer." Jian Bob issued several casual orders.In short order, a third man had hold of me by the jaw with one hand while trying to hold my eyelids open with the other. One guard held her by the shoulders. A second held her right hand, extending her ring finger. A third man held a knife to her top knuckle. A forth stood close with a small blowtorch."She may be a small person, Mr. Nyilas, but she can still die by the Death of a Thousand cuts," he explained."I love you, Aya," I told her softly."I love you too, Fehér mén," she succeeding in keeping most of the fear from her voice.Neither one of us could stop this. Aya certainly didn't expect me to compromise the Host for her benefit. She was as much an Amazon as the first Epona."First, I wish to know what alerted you to the attack at the Summer Camp," Bob began the interrogation."We know you were responsible. We want to know what happened." I looked into his eyes and waited patiently. He nodded to the guard, who shoved my face toward Aya's extended finger until I was less than a foot away."Do it." The Order came in Mandarin.The guard cut the top part of the digit off, one knuckle. I looked at the flesh and bone being cut away. In a clinical manner, I noted how sharp the blade was. I saw the blood shoot forth and heard Aya's little voice cry out in pain. I was pulled back and pointed at Jian Bob again."Do I need to repeat the question for you?" he said."No, I caught it the first time," I grimaced. "It tells me that you haven't the slightest idea who you are fucking with." Bob made a slight hand gesture and the blowtorch cauterized Aya's stump. Her little lungs belted out a terrible screech that wound down as her feet gave out and she hung limply in the guard's grip."Revive her." The blowtorch guy, clearly not his first day on the job, snapped some smelling salts under her noise. Aya revived, sobbing and in a great deal of pain."Cáel," she whimpered. "I have found my stillness. I'll be okay now." Her sobs subsided."Shall we try this again?" J B remained coolly polite, almost urbane."Nah," I joked, "we are both pretty good over here.""Again." The Mandarin order came. Off went another digit of her ring finger. This time her scream was much more exuberant and forceful. We all know it hurt like Hell, but the world had turned."He's going to kill all of you," Aya snickered while she sobbed. "You are all going to die.""Mu, what is the little girl saying?" she asked Jian Bob, real name Mu."She is stating her belief that Cáel will somehow kill us all," he and his sister shared the joke. "Let us see what her tune is when they start in on her left hand," the woman smiled at her sibling.That implied they'd cut off her right thumb and fingers, digit by digit, until one, or both of us cracked. The man nodded and Aya's nub was burned again. Her scream was more of a cleansing shout."Cáel, do you think I will have a nice horse to ride when I join Epona's herds, or will I get a pony?" Aya whimpered."Not a clue," I began before Mu had the face-hugging guard apply a finger strike to my solar plexus. Alal's gift had allowed me to partially organize my brain functions. Coping with pain was a whole lot easier now, but I had to be careful to monitor it because pain was Nature's way of letting you know that there was something wrong with your body."What color would you like me to pick up and have waiting for you," punch, "when you finally take yourself to the cliffs?""Again.""This is accomplishing nothing," the senior bald Mo Fo grumbled. "He clearly cares nothing for the child and has been trained in counter-interrogation techniques.""There is nothing to indicate that," Mu bristled."Xiàsh, burn the tip of his left forefinger," senior necromancer commanded. The guy holding my face coordinated with the men holding my arms to free me of my bonds and wrestle my left arm forward. I didn't bother resisting.It didn't take the commandoes long to figure I had stopped caring. On came the flame and the pain. Oh, I screamed. The pain was real. What had changed was my ability to shuffle it off to an isolated memory file to be tackled later. The bald creep stepped into my field of vision. His eyes were windows to the abyss. My "spirit" sight opened my eyes to the truly inhuman sections of his mind and soul."See, normal techniques will not be affective. We will do it, " and they realized the enormity of their mistake by assuming I was paralyzed by the pain. I broke free of the guy on my left and began twisting around the guy on my right. I wasn't getting away, I was going for his QCW O5. I knew their favorite martial arts styles and their weaponry now.The guy I was rolling behind realized what I was doing (going for his gun), but mistook my intentions. I wasn't trying to get away, or steal the gun (still strapped to his body). That cockhead even helped me out by lurching ground-ward. I swung the gun up, hit the selector and fired two quick bursts.The first three rounds hit Mr. Blowtorch in his right thigh, shredding it. The second burst caught Mr. Knife guy in the crotch, a triple 21mm castration. Had Blowtorch Guy not been busy trying to keep the strands of his right hip connected to his right leg, he could have stopped the blood fountaining from his buddies shattered groin. That was the end of my joy.I was born to the ground and the guy whose gun I'd borrowed pulled away. I hit the concrete surface hard. That was only the beginning of my issues. Radiating from the floor was cold beyond cold. I had the sensation of falling into the heart of a cold, dead star. How I even knew what the felt like was an impossibility."He feels very cold," protested one of the two guards, in Mandarin; pulling me back to my feet groused."If your incompetence has led to his terminal condition," the male twin threatened. I felt the approach of the female twin, her reaching for me. A new intense pain seared me to the cores of my bones. Before she yanked my hair up, my body reignited.I found myself stared into her pitiless eyes that regarded me with the casual callousness of a veterinarian preparing to put down some rabid stray dog. She ran three fingers over my cheek."What are you babbling about?" she snapped at the two commandoes. "If anything, he is feverish.""Zhen, have him sedated," Chief Necromancer demanded. "Mu, now we will do this my way." Once more I was bound. Someone stabbed a needle into my right triceps. That was a mere discomfort. If I had any consolation, it was hearing Mu ordering the execution of the two men I'd shot.They didn't have the time and facilities to tend to their immediate emergency needs and taking them to a trauma center wasn't going to happen. Those two went into body bags. I had to assume they would be joining us on the plane, though they'd be in the cargo compartment."What are you smiling at?" I heard Zhen snapping before my world collapsed down to a pinhole of light."Lady, I don't know what you said," Aya declared happily. "You are probably angry that Cáel has already killed two of you and we haven't even got off the ground yet." I heard a sound I couldn't make out followed by another and finally a third. That resulted in an Aya-squeak. Ah, she'd tried to hit Aya and Aya had dodged the first two blows. Good girl."Cáel isn't going to like you doing that," Aya chirped."Aya's a winner," I mumbled. I wasn't in control of my senses when they dragged me onto a waiting jet. I wasn't worried. With Aya at my side, I was invincible.DreamingI looked at her face, so youthful, beautiful in her own way, yet far from innocent. She bore a terrible weight. The armor she was wearing, that of a heavy horseman of the steppe, was a leather coat, chain links over her vulnerable regions (throat, underarms and skirt), with the rest being covered by darkened bronze plates.Her iron helmet was open-faced with mobile plates covering her cheeks as well as the sides and the back of her neck; it bore a white horse-hair plume, it was the only feature of her panoply that would draw any special attention her way. She carried no shield. Instead, she wielded a powerful horn & sinew composite recurve bow. She used her knees to rise up on her mount and fire over the mare's head.Similarly attired women rode close to either side of this young woman. Both were older; one in her early forties and the other ~ late thirties. The one to the left bore a lance, not in the couched fashion most people today are familiar with, but used in a double-handed over-head fighting style.The woman to the right fought with a strange blade. It wasn't saber ~ an ancestor of that blade perhaps. It was about a meter long, no hand guard, single-edged except for the top 4 cm on the back side which was equally sharp. Her left hand remained free. I think I saw her purpose. If the young woman got into difficulty, her guardian on the right could pull her horse away and lead the woman to safety.Behind and beside those three rode perhaps three hundred of their sisters. Those in the center were as heavily armored as those three. On each flank were the lighter, faster bow-women, on smaller steeds. The women in the center rode larger mounts that were good for carrying weight and pushing home a charge, while the flanking steppe ponies were virtually tireless.In the center, identified only by her long golden-mane helm, was the Golden Mare ~ War Leader of the Host. The Amazons didn't fly pennants or carry banners. They judged the course of battle by that woman's head movements (the mane was quite long) and the shrill horn blasts unique to the Amazons.Let the barbarians have the all too common deep booming horns calls and their totems raised high for the world to see. Let the Romans keep their trumpets and Legion standards. Amazons had been putting those fools in their graves from time immemorial. Right now, those horns had summoned the Host to a trot.The Hun, Attila, had tasked the Sarmatian Chieftain, under whose banner they rode, to deal with another crisis, the third this short day. Once more, they directed their horses over Catalaunian Fields. The Ostrogoth had gotten themselves into a world of trouble, those filthy, stinking Germans (why was I even thinking that way?)First the Amazons had ridden forth on Attila's right, reinforcing the allied Germanic tribes on the Right Wing in their attempt to force a wedge between Aetius' Romans and King Sangiban's Alans. They'd shown the fools the way, but the supporting Gepids cavalry was too timid and by the time they began to approach, the Golden Mare had been forced to sound 'retire'.The Roman auxiliary cavalry, though of poor quality, had plugged the gap. The Host were too few and too valuable (in their estimation) to die holding a position that their 'allies' might not rescue them from. Next, they had been directed to attack the center of the Alan cavalry line in support of the Huns.Despite the cowardice of their king, the Alans were hardy fighters and too accustomed to the style of steppe warfare that the Host practiced to be lured away from their position. Arrows were exchanged and brief, brutal skirmishes developed, but no advantage was gained. With their mounts exhausted, the Golden Mare had ordered the Host to retired to their camp to water their horses and refill their quivers.That bit of common sense and tactical wisdom placed them in their present crisis. Their Ostrogoth allies had been beating themselves against their Visigoth cousins all afternoon, charging up the same cursed slope that any sane commander would have found a way to flank. No, the Germans had failed seven times using the same plan, so they tried an eighth.Miraculously, they had gained a toehold on the ridgeline and killed the Visigothic King. Like a mob of mindless farmers, the Ostrogoths stopped to celebrate their 'victory' and taunt the Visigoths with the mutilated body of their fallen leader. The Visigoths had been properly incensed and counter-attacked. That's what Princes were for, to avenge their fallen Sires.As the Host exited the Hunnic laager, they'd seen the calamity unfold. The wavering Visigoth infantry had stiffened their line. Believing the Ostrogoths would press forward, the Horse-tail banner of Attila himself broke away from the central Hunnic body, pivoted to his left and thundered into the Visigoth's exposed flank.In the din of battle, it may have looked to the Great Warlord that he had a vanishing opportunity for victory. From the valley below, it was much clearer to the Amazons that the moment to break the Visigothic infantry had passed. The Huns were too tired; their mounts frothing from a long, hot afternoon of battle. Without a swift follow-through, the attack was doomed.At that point, headlong flight for the Amazons wasn't possible. Their long term survival hung on the Hunnic King keeping his Germanic 'allies' in line. They were still somewhere in eastern Roman Gaul, with the Rhine to ford and a land thick with perpetually vicious, blood-thirsty, crotch-scratching, flea-bitten Germanic barbarians to cross before they saw the green rolling hills of home again.No, the Golden Mare, and that young lady knew they had to do something to stem the tide of this disaster for another hour, then darkness would force the combatants to separate so they could try their hand at battle the next day. As the Golden Mare rode to the Sarmatian Chieftain, a rider came through the dust from Attila. The Visigothic cavalry had returned with a vengeance and the Ostrogoths were folding up.The Sarmatians (with their attached Amazons) were to 'somehow' repair the situation. As the Chieftain, the Golden Mare and three Sarmatian tribal leaders hastily discussed the actions. They saw the Hunnic Right, under hard pressure from the Roman attack, beginning to disintegrate. Of immediate concern was the rift opening up between the retreating Hunnic Gepids and the Hunnic horsemen holding the center.King Sangiban had finally discovered his manhood. The Alans attacked through that gap in the Hunnic lines and a rout was in the offing. The Sarmatian Leader decided he had to answer Attila's call. The Golden Mare offered to take her Amazons and whichever tribal leader volunteered first to ride with her against the Alans.She drew her sword and held it aloft then motioned the Sarmatians to look at her shadow."We will hold them off until the length of our swords double (the shadow). Then we are all on our own," she offered. There was no further discussion necessary. There was nothing else to say. The Host and their allies had the fresher horses and full quivers.The Alans had numbers but no heavy horse present, yet. The Host had answered Attila's call to war and now, nearly a year away from their homes in the forested steppe lands of modern-day Bukovina. At that moment they were wondering how few of them would ever see their horse herds roaming free this side of life.That was where my vision came in ~ that woman was 'Ishara', the last of my major bloodline of the first Ishara and this was the last hour of her life. The other two women were the only other two members of that vanishing bloodline. One was her aunt and the other a cousin. Despite the dire peril to their lineage, they joined their sisters in battle.Even though they were outnumber 2 to 1, the Amazons swept aside the first burst of Alans, scattering their bands and hunting the slowest of them down. Rushing alone to fill the gaping hole in the main battle lines was to abandon all tactical sense. Eighty Amazon heavy horse and perhaps twenty more Sarmatians ~ they were integrated now ~ alone simply weren't enough.For the roughly 300 lightly armored horse-archers, it would be a pointless suicide and that was not the Amazon way. Instead, they scattered the initial Alan rush then gently trotted back down the slope. Of course, the Alans regrouped and followed. It was the battle pulse of steppe skirmishing.By simply existing, they turned the rushing wave of that first Alan charge into a slowly strengthening tide. The Alans' mounts were tired and in need of water. Their quivers were nearly empty and some were seen at the top of the slope looting the quivers of the fallen. Whenever they could, the Amazons killed those clever souls.Killing an archer closer to you who only had two arrows left wasn't as economical as killing the one who was both dismounted, thus an easier shot, and about to have fifteen bolts to use against you. Without the constant harassment, the Gepids were able to keep their retreat orderly. In turn, the other Germanics farther to the right kept their mobs relatively intact as well.Their success earned them the inevitable enemy reaction. From his vantage point, the Roman Aetius saw the vulnerable and unsupported position the Amazons held. If he could push past the Amazon screen, he could still achieve a route instead of accepting a mere victory for his side. The solution was a force of

Charlemagne joins me to discuss Sean McMeekin's 2021 Book: Stalin's War, A New History of World War Two. Today we discuss Section 2: Chapter 9 - Stalin Strikes: The Baltic, Bessarabia, and Bukovina . We analyze in particular the strategy and diplomatic pressures Stalin and Molotov used as tensions increased. The Stalin's War Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0jSWvWII3LZbT5Ib749oQ4xcVa-6jsYL&si=3bxCUn3p3Z4D-QL7  Find Charlemagne: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Charlemagne_III Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesmayne69 Telegram: https://t.me/charlemagne3 Old Glory Club: https://oldgloryclub.substack.com/   Support The Prudentialist Support My Work: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-prudentialist Substack: https://theprudentialist.substack.com/ Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/prudentialist Libsyn: https://theprudentialist.libsyn.com Merch: https://mr-prudes-wares.creator-spring.com/ All other links: https://findmyfrens.net/theprudentialist/  

Nuestro siguiente invitado es Roby Croitorescu Weber, sobreviviente del Holocausto, nació un 20 de septiembre de 1943 en un campo de concentración en Transnistira. Hijo de Isaac (1910-1994) originario de Vaslui, Rumanía y Dora (1914-1998), nacida en Radautz, Bukovina.  En verano de 1948, tras haber sido liberados por los rusos y vivido en Transilvania, emigran a Eretz Israel. Fueron años muy duros hasta que logró estabilizarse y montar una óptica en Tel- Aviv, Óptica Stilorex. La historia toma un giro cuando Isaac decide emigrar a Venezuela. Llegan en el 58 en un avión de la línea Aeropostal desde Roma. Con un préstamo y sin firmar giros, monta la óptica Roxy.  Roby, estudia un año en el Colegio Moral y Luces y luego termina en el Americano. Su padre lo envía con un grupo de personas a Nueva York, a estudiar con un profesor que era uno de los padres de la optometría en Estados Unidos, y de ahí fue al Royal College of Science en Toronto, donde obtiene el título de optometrista. Al regresar, Isaac  compra otra óptica, Óptica Venezuela. La curiosidad de Roby lo lleva a montar un laboratorio y comienza a trabajar los cristales, y con una máquina de segunda, inicia el primer taller. Así fueron los inicios del conglomerado de Ópticas Caroní en 1976 con más de 86 sucursales por toda Venezuela. Hoy en día las familias Espín, Moreno, Fridzon y Crouturescu manejan el negocio, ya son segunda generación y tienen varias ópticas en los Estados Unidos, incluida óptica Elios en Miami. En su haber comunitario, fue presidente de Hebraica-Caracas de Venezuela, de la Unión Israelita de Caracas, de Vaad Hakehilot y Presidente de CLAM-Confederación Latinoamericana Macabi y como miembro activo de CAIV (Confederación de Asociaciones Israelita de Venezuela) concibió y concretó el sueño de conformar la primera organización encargada de capacitar a jóvenes en la defensa del Estado de Israel a través de la diplomacia pública, Hatzad Hasheni (2010). Agradece todos los días por su hermosa familia, su esposa Ghena,sus hijos, Ariel y Mery, Lili y Dan, Gila y Salomón y nueve hermosos nietos. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tamara-kassab/support

MDJ Script/ Top Stories for August 1st Tuesday Publish Date: July 31 Monday   Commercial: Henssler :15   From the Henssler Financial Studio, Welcome to the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast Today is Tuesday July 29th and happy 61st birthday to actor Wesley Snipes ***Snipes*** I'm Dan Radcliffe and here are the stories Cobb is talking about, presented by Credit of Georgia 1. 1991 California cold case reopened after retired Marietta pastor's arrest 2. Marietta weighs renewal of tax-sharing agreement with Cobb Galleria authority 3. And a Cobb, Marietta schools see mixed results on statewide test   All of this and more is coming up on the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast. Commercial : CU of GA   STORY 1: 91   After the arrest of an 83-year-old retired minister in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Pennsylvania almost 50 years ago, investigators in California reopened a cold case involving a 4-year-old girl who went missing in 1991. David George Zandstra, the accused, admitted to the crime after evidence of sexual misconduct was presented. Investigators are looking into possible connections between the two cases, separated by 16 years and multiple states, to see if there might be a pattern of similar crimes. The Christian Reformed Church in North America, where Zandstra served as a minister, has also initiated its own investigation.....................……... Read more about this at mdjonline.com   Story 2: galleria   The Cobb-Marietta Coliseum and Exhibit Hall Authority, which manages the Cobb Galleria Centre and Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, has renewed 30-year tax revenue-sharing agreements with several cities, but the city of Marietta is yet to reach an agreement. The authority seeks a steady revenue stream to fund a $150-170 million redevelopment. Marietta's hotel-motel tax revenue contributes to the authority's revenue, but some officials are questioning the continuation of the subsidy for three more decades. The authority argues that it has a significant economic and philanthropic impact, generating billions in economic impact and supporting jobs. Marietta's City Council plans to discuss the matter further in a special meeting on August 9.   Story 3: test   The 2022-2023 Georgia Milestones test scores show that Marietta City Schools saw significant improvements in reading across most grade levels, particularly in third-grade reading with a 20-point increase. This improvement is attributed to the Literacy and Justice for All program. However, the average score for high schoolers in algebra saw a 23-point drop since last year. In contrast, Cobb County School District's scores remained relatively steady or slightly dropped, with some grade levels showing declines in reading. Marietta outperformed the state in various categories but fell short in some subjects. Statewide, there were improvements in student scores on most assessments compared to the previous year. Efforts to improve reading outcomes include expanding tutoring programs through Georgia Virtual Learning and partnering with AmeriCorps.   we'll be right back   Break: ESOG – Elon – Dayco   STORY 4: college   Rob Garcia III has been appointed to lead the Marietta College and Career Academy in Marietta City Schools. The academy offers unique pathways for students to gain hands-on experience in various industries and develop skills for high-paying jobs. Garcia's aim is to connect local businesses with the academy to build curriculum according to their needs, offer internships and apprenticeships, and ensure students are prepared for the workforce. The academy spans the entirety of Marietta High School, and its success is driven by partnerships with local industries. Garcia's return to his hometown is seen as a significant asset to the community.   STORY 5: 6 holocaust   Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann shared his story during a three-day symposium off Marietta Square hosted by Zachor Shoah, Inc., a nonprofit combating Holocaust denial and distortion. Born in 1939 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Steigmann and his family were imprisoned in the Mogilev-Podolsky labor camp in Transnistria. He survived medical experiments, starvation, and death marches during the Holocaust. Steigmann emphasized the importance of education to prevent hate, bigotry, and genocide, urging people to be vigilant against hate groups and propaganda. The symposium aimed to promote Holocaust education and raise awareness about the dangers of antisemitism and discrimination.   Story 6: jackson   Republican Cobb County Tax Commissioner Carla Jackson, the first Black tax commissioner in Cobb County's history, is switching to the Democratic Party ahead of next year's election. She has been reelected twice as a Republican but will now seek reelection as a Democrat. Jackson cited the changes in the Republican Party since 2016 as her reason for the switch and mentioned that her beliefs and values as a Black woman are in direct opposition to GOP actions regarding race, voting rights, gender, and the environment. The Cobb Democratic Committee welcomed her to the party.   We'll be back in a moment   Break: Drake- Ingles 7- JRM   Story 7: foti   The Walton Raiders achieved their 23rd overall state title in girls' tennis, winning the Georgia state playoffs under coach Anthony Foti's leadership. Foti was named the 2023 Cobb County Girls Tennis Coach of the Year. The team faced tough opponents, including state champions Northview, Pace Academy, and Marist, to prepare for the championship match against North Gwinnett. Led by Notre Dame commit Hayden Mulberry, who displayed dominant play, Walton secured a decisive victory in the final. The team will face new challenges next season with the graduation of seven seniors but remains confident in maintaining their high level of performance.   Story 8: santanna   The Dillon Santana of Mount Paran Christian had a remarkable comeback story in tennis. Despite facing setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a wrist injury, he played consistently as the No. 1 singles player and led his team to its first-ever state championship. Santana's performance earned him the title of 2023 Cobb County Boys Tennis Player of the Year. Motivated by past missed opportunities, he fought hard in every match, and the culmination of his efforts led to an emotional victory. Santana will continue his tennis journey at Georgia College and State University.   Story 9: rhodes   Cody Rhodes, a professional wrestler, reminisces about his WWE career, starting in Detroit in 2007 when he inducted his father, Dusty Rhodes, into the WWE Hall of Fame. Rhodes, a Cobb Native and Lassiter alum, later debuted in WWE, left in 2016 to join the independent circuit, co-founded All Elite Wrestling, and returned to WWE in 2022. Rhodes aims to win the WWE heavyweight title, a dream that eluded his father. Despite challenges and emotions, he remains focused on his goal and cherishes his Detroit connection through his wife's family. Cody Rhodes is set to wrestle Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam.     We're back with final thoughts after this     Break: UMC 15 – Henssler 60 Signoff- Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Marietta Daily Journal podcast. Read more about all our stories, and get other great content at MDJonline.com. Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? Giving you important news about our community and telling great stories are what we do. Make sure you join us for our next episode and be sure to share this podcast on social media with your friends and family. 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The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania's Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iaşi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. Based on thousands of archival documents and testimonies of survivors, The Holocaust in Romania sheds new light on Romania's prefascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. With this book, the Romanian Holocaust will no longer be forgotten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania's Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iaşi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. Based on thousands of archival documents and testimonies of survivors, The Holocaust in Romania sheds new light on Romania's prefascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. With this book, the Romanian Holocaust will no longer be forgotten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania's Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iaşi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. Based on thousands of archival documents and testimonies of survivors, The Holocaust in Romania sheds new light on Romania's prefascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. With this book, the Romanian Holocaust will no longer be forgotten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania's Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iaşi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. Based on thousands of archival documents and testimonies of survivors, The Holocaust in Romania sheds new light on Romania's prefascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. With this book, the Romanian Holocaust will no longer be forgotten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania's Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iaşi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. Based on thousands of archival documents and testimonies of survivors, The Holocaust in Romania sheds new light on Romania's prefascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. With this book, the Romanian Holocaust will no longer be forgotten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania's Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iaşi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. Based on thousands of archival documents and testimonies of survivors, The Holocaust in Romania sheds new light on Romania's prefascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. With this book, the Romanian Holocaust will no longer be forgotten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies

The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania's Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iaşi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. Based on thousands of archival documents and testimonies of survivors, The Holocaust in Romania sheds new light on Romania's prefascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. With this book, the Romanian Holocaust will no longer be forgotten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

Piše: Ana Lorger Bere: Lidija Hartman Roman s pomenljivim naslovom Spomini antisemita je v petih delih zgoščena pripoved nemško govorečega pisatelja Gregorja von Rezzorija, rojenega v nekdanji provinci evropskega jugovzhoda, Bukovini. S pridihom avtobiografskih elementov se romaneskno dogajanje, ki ga opazujemo skozi oči prvoosebnega junaka Arnulfa, zgošča prav na tem heterogenem in kulturno pluralnem območju. Bukovina je pred prvo svetovno vojno spadala pod Avstro-Ogrsko, z razpadom monarhije pa se je regija razdelila in je zdaj delno v Ukrajini in delno v Romuniji. Območje, kamor je bil kot avstro-ogrski uradnik premeščen protagonistov oče in kjer je prvoosebni pripovedovalec Arnulf preživljal svoje otroštvo, je sodilo v romunski del. Te geografsko historične opredelitve romanesknega kronotopa so izjemno pomembne za razumevanje notranjih prepričanj, predsodkov in delovanj protagonista, čigar identiteta je kljub avstrijskemu poreklu izjemno hibridna. Območje, kjer so se vse do prve svetovne vojne mešale judovska, romunska, ukrajinska, avstrijska, poljska in madžarska kultura, je vsekakor vplivalo tudi na identitetno pluralno in neulovljivo Arnulfovo osebnost. Sosledje petih poglavij, ki so razen zadnjega vsa pripovedovana iz prvoosebne perspektive, je v romanu namreč nemogoče opredeliti kot razvoj protagonistove osebnosti. Pripoved, ki se sicer odvija linearno kronološko, od otroštva prek mladosti vse do starosti, deluje kot sosledje kratkih zgodb ali nepovezanih dogodkov ter nas tako sooča s pripovedovalčevo notranjo razpršenostjo. Ta se kaže tudi v protagonistovih kontradikcijah, kjer so prepričanja, razmisleki in ideje le redkokdaj skladni z njegovimi dejanji. A v zgodbi smo priča tudi nasprotnemu procesu: praksa Arnulfovega vsakdana junaka ne sooča z njegovimi predsodki in prepričanji niti jih ne briše. Glavni junak daje vtis nezmožnosti refleksije lastnih dejanj in nezmožnosti kritike lastnih notranjih prepričanj. Arnulf se prav zaradi svojega nezanesljivega sebstva v romanu znajde kot kulturni posrednik, kot prevajalec raznoraznih identitet, ki prečijo njegovo življenje. Njegova drža do sveta zasije kot apolitična, saj vzpon nacizma in njegove posledice zgolj opazuje in vanje nikoli ne poseže. Nasprotni pol te radikalne Arnulfove politične nedejavnosti pomeni njegov intimni svet. Na subjektivni ravni namreč predsodke presega s čustvi, kot sta prijateljstvo in ljubezen. Apolitični protagonist paradoksalno v svoje življenje prepušča vse, kar je njemu razumljeno kot drugo, pa naj bo to judovski otroški prijatelj, Romkinja ali judovska vdova. Z zavestjo o tem, da je »preteklost vedno kot nekakšna pravljična, bajeslovna dežela«, Arnulf sicer ostaja skeptičen do nacističnega vračanja k nacionalnim mitom in koreninam, vendar pa lahko skozi protagonistovo inertnost razbiramo tudi avtorjevo kritiko tovrstnega nedelovanja v svetu. Poleg politično socialnega ozadja je namreč množica nedejavnih posameznikov omogočila, da je do holokavsta sploh prišlo. Gregor von Rezzori seveda v romanu ne moralizira, s slogovno izčiščenim jezikom svet predvsem opisuje in dogajanje popisuje. Prav opisnost mu omogoča tudi slikanje notranje in zunanje mnogoterosti. Ta je namreč povezana s protagonistovim nenehnim iskanjem resnice, za katero v zadnjem poglavju, napisanem v tretji osebi, ugotovi, da je njen smisel prav v njenem nenehnem iznajdevanju. S tem povezuje tudi lastno konstrukcijo jaza, kjer bi prav notranja kulturna hibridnost lahko delovala proti enomiselnosti nacističnega sistema. Roman tako na slogovni kot vsebinski ravni ostaja alegorija odpovedi moči, s katero bi bil človek zmožen delovati protisistemsko in poseči v krivice okoli sebe. V to bi Arnulf lahko posegel prav s svojo kulturno diverziteto. A ker je protagonist ne prepozna kot moč, v spominjanju na svojo preteklost in morda v spominu drugih ljudi ob koncu romana še vedno ostaja antisemit.

Bukovina, céhek, festészet, Jurij Drohobics, Kárpátalja, Krím, nyomtatás, oktatás, Osztrogszki, társadalmi rétegzettség, vallások, városrendezés: az ukrajnai történelem a XV-XVI. században. A kvízkérdés: A töltényelőkészítő védtelen szúróeszközt csorbít. A búcsúlakoma tágasságot nyit. Hogy mondanád hasonlóan?

Bukovina, a former borderland of the Habsburg empire now divided between Ukraine and Romania, was a place of mutual observation, competition, and conflict between the different states and governments that laid claim to the territory. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the province experienced repeated regime changes – many of which occurred seemingly overnight. This talk explores how the shared challenges of governing Bukovina facilitated mutual influences between regimes that otherwise viewed each other as ideological opposites. About the Speaker: Cristina Florea is an Assistant Professor in Modern European history at Cornell University, researching and teaching the histories of Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on borderlands, imperial entanglements and competition, and the interplay of nationalisms and empires in the region.

Sami Steigmann has been many things. He has been a victim of the Holocaust. When he was liberated, he became a survivor. Now, he is a motivational speaker.Sami's experience is invaluable. Few people on this earth had gone through the atrocities he faced when he was just a child, and he was able to transform himself from a victim into a social action agent. Learn about Sami's story, and how he can help you.Sami is dedicated to reach as many young people as he can, nationally and internationally, promote tolerance, and, hopefully, they will make it a better world for themselves, their children and their grandchildren. His advice to the young people: "NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER LOSE HOPE and enjoy the life you've been given. NEVER BE A PERPETRATOR (anyone that hurts another, intentionally and repeatedly, is a perpetrator). But most importantly, NEVER, EVER BE A BY-STANDER. The greatest tragedy in human history, the Holocaust and all the genocides, happened because the world stood by and did nothing. As a bystander, you are part of the problem. He wants you to "BE PART OF THE SOLUTION." Sami's life story is remarkable. He was born on December 21, 1939 in Czernovitz, Bukovina, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire belonging to Romania. Later, it became part of former Soviet Union and today it is in Ukraine. From 1941 through 1944, he was with his parents in Ukraine at Mogilev-Podolsky, a labor camp in an area called Transnistria. The Red Army liberated the camp and his family was deported by the Romanians, not by the Germans. He grew up in Transylvania, in a small town called Reghin. He did not know the language. In 1961, the whole family (his sister was born in 1946) emigrated to Israel. He served in the Israeli Air Force, not as a pilot. In 1968, without knowing the language and no money, alone, Sami came to the United States. He lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he married, divorced and eventually, in 1983 returned to Israel. However, in 1988, he returned to the United States, choosing New York City as his final home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zeide Meir Schmellner was the scion of a distinguished Hasidic dynasty, and married into a similarly elevated family. Although he was a brilliant rabbinic scholar and a charismatic speaker, his explosion into the field of international peace in 1925 took everyone by surprise. Rabbi Dunner delves into the story of this unusual Romanian rabbi, charting a career that took him from Bukovina, to Paris, to New York, and eventually a brush with the law that landed him in Sing Sing. One of the most shocking stories of any rabbi in modern history.

Obce Vysoká a Bukovina nad Labem jsou od sebe vzdálené necelé čtyři kilometry. Přesto je dělí hranice Královéhradeckého a Pardubického kraje. V budoucnu tyto obce propojí cyklostezka. To ale není jediné lákadlo, které tato místa nabízí.Všechny díly podcastu Východočeské výlety můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Rav Yehuda Leib Tzirelson (1859-1941) and his younger compatriot Rabbi Moshe Yosef Rubin (1895-1980), were but two examples of the unique rabbinical leadership enjoyed by the Romanian Jewish community during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century. With the outer districts of Bukovina and Bessarabia being absorbed into the new nationalistic and increasingly anti Semitic Romania, it took courageous leadership to provide an anchor of tradition during that time period. What made the story even more unique was their leadership in the Romanian Agudas Yisroel organization, while maintaining Zionistic positions on settlement of the Land of Israel and the future founding of a State. Rabbi Rubin was able to escape to Bucharest following the war's outbreak and continued his rescue activities and Agudah leadership from the capital. Following the war, he immigrated to the United States, where he later founded the Geder Avos organization to protect and maintain Jewish cemeteries in Europe.   For sponsorship opportunities about your favorite topics of Jewish history contact Yehuda at:  yehuda@yehudageberer.com   Subscribe To Our Podcast on:    PodBean: https://jsoundbites.podbean.com/   Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at @Jsoundbites You can email Yehuda at yehuda@yehudageberer.com

In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musical critic Alexey Munipov introduces "Bukovina songs" by contemporary composer Leonid Desyatnikov, performed by pianist Pavel Dombrovsky. Inspired by Bukovina – a very unusual "contact zone" between Ukrainian, German, Jewish, Polish and Romanian cultures – Desyatnikov's preludes reflect his childhood fascination with radio edits of Ukrainian folk songs, transfigured by echoes of Stravinsky, Chopin, Bartok, Webern, Sati and Gershwin.Download the episodeDetailed descriptionВ новом выпуске подкаста Radio Eshkolot музыкальный критик Алексей Мунипов представляет "Буковинские песни" современного композитора Леонида Десятникова в исполнении пианиста Павла Домбровского. Прелюдии Десятникова вдохновлены Буковиной – уникальной зоной контакта украинской, немецкой, еврейской, польской и румынской культур, и отражают его детские воспоминания об украинской музыке из радиоприёмника на кухне, преломленные через "звуковой фильтр" Бартока, Шопена, Стравинского, Веберна, Сати и Гершвина.Скачать эпизодПодробное описание

Seine Musik ist der Soundtrack rauschhafter Partys und ausgelassener Feiern. Shantel genießt Kultstatus, seitdem er den Balkan-Pop weltweit etabliert hat. Doch auch seine Auftritte werden derzeit verschoben. Ein Leben im Wartezustand. Moderation: Julia Schöning

İlk gezi, Ukrayna'nın belki de en güzel şehri Çernovtsi'ye. Gezinin özel ödülüyse, yalnız Ukrayna'nın değil, Avrupa'nın en güzel yapıtlarından birini, gerçek bir mimari şaheser, dünün Bukovina ve Dalmaçya Metropolitlerinin evi, bugünün Çernovtsi Üniversitesi'nin muhteşem binasını bu sefer içeriden tanımak.

On April 22, 1943, Dr. Raul Artal Mittelmark was born in a Nazi concentration camp in Transnistria, a region in Eastern Europe. After the camp was liberated, his parents returned to their hometown: Czernowitz in Bukovina, which was under Communist rule. After several attempts to flee Communist Russia, the family was able to move to Romania, then the U.S. and, eventually, Israel. It was in Israel where Artal met his wife, and they eventually moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Artal ended up serving 17 years as chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at St. Louis University. In this episode, host Sarah Fenske talks with Artal about how his upbringing influenced his career in medicine as well as the medical ethics lessons we can still learn from the Holocaust.

LnR 023 Dracula by Bram Stoker (Replay) Bram Stoker: 11847-1912 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345 3 May. Bistritz.—Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pest seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule. We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem., get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians. I found my smattering of German very useful here; indeed, I don’t know how I should be able to get on without it. Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a nobleman of that country. I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.

–Written and narrated by Peter Bejger.Who closes the door? And who can open it? Who escapes? And who doesn’t?A compelling book entitled The Great Departure: Mass Migration From Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World by Tara Zahra answers some of these questions.Tara Zahra is a professor of modern European history at the University of Chicago and a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Her book is an impressive work of scholarship that is filled with often-heartbreaking personal stories of the devastating human toll of migration.Between 1846 and 1940 more than fifty million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history. Villages were emptied out throughout Europe—especially Central and Eastern Europe. The homes the emigrants left behind as well as their new homes were fundamentally changed.From almost the very beginning emigration policies were political tools to be manipulated and exploited. Governments and nationalist movements were eager to see certain groups leave—they were often called “surplus populations”—while trying to restrict the departure of other “favored groups” considered essential for state or nation building. The goal was to create nationally homogeneous populations. A goal pursued by various regimes and governments into the twenty-first century.Therefore, Professor Zahra’s research shows the vast majority of the 2.7 million imperial Russian subjects who left the Tsarist Empire between 1880 and 1910 were Jews, Polish-speakers, or German-speakers.Russian imperial authorities began to encourage Jewish emigration in the 1890s. The government let the Jewish Colonization Association set up branches throughout the empire in 1892. Emigration remained illegal for non-Jewish subjects of the tsar.Brody, a western Ukrainian city that was then on the frontier of the Russian and Austrian empires, entered folklore as a major door of departure to a new life.Brody itself was on the fringe of Galicia, a Habsburg Austrian crown land notorious for its abject poverty. Unlike Russia, all citizens of the Habsburg Empire had the constitutional right to leave. The Ukrainian and Polish peasants of Galicia, along with the region’s Jews, also emigrated in massive numbers to new overseas opportunities. Authorities recorded a total of 3.5 million emigrants from throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire to all overseas destinations between 1876 and 1910. The largest numbers left from Galicia and Bukovina and from southern and eastern Hungary. Almost three million went to the United States.The powers that be became alarmed. There was an increasing shortage of young men to call up for military service. Polish and Hungarian nobles in the Habsburg Empire feared losing cheap agricultural labor to American factories and mines.The nobles had reason to worry. Wages in Western Europe and the United States were two to three times higher than wages in Galicia. And in those areas of Galicia most affected by emigration, wages eventually had to rise as employers had to compete in a global marketplace. Furthermore, as Professor Zahar points out, the tremendous flow of remittances from Galician emigrants back to their homeland expanded peasant landholdings, renovated churches, and provided economic relief.Massive emigration, especially of young women, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Poetry in a time of war.Such is the headline by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, or FAZ, in its recent reporting on the dynamic annual poetry festival Meridian Czernowitz, held earlier in September in the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi.Why war? Because the newspaper picked up the subtle influences of the war with Russia in the East on this gracious city far from the front. As international literati gathered to celebrate the word, young men in camouflage and stony faces marched under the chestnut trees.And why Czernowitz?Such was the name of this city from 1774 to 1918 when it was the capital of the Imperial Austrian crownland of Bukovina under the reign of the legendary Habsburg dynasty.In this period it became known as a “Little Vienna” due to its architectural style. And also for the fact it was the home of a growing German-speaking community and German-language university.But the city was always cosmopolitan—a center for both the Ukrainian and Romanian national movements. And in 1908 it was the site of the first Yiddish language conference. Not surprising, as nearly a third of the city by this time was Jewish.The stories of this city and surrounding region have been told in many languages. By the Ukrainian writers Olha Kobylianska and Yuri Fedkovych. The German novelist Gregor von Rezzori and the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. Czernowitz, now known as Chernivtsi, gained a lasting literary mystique.Above all, it is famous as the native city of the Jewish poet Paul Celan, who wrote in German. His renowned and very much analyzed poem ''Death Fugue'' became a sensation for its metaphorical evocation of the Holocaust. The opening lines of the poem read, ''Black milk of daybreak we drink it at nightfall / we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night.''Born in Chernivtsi in 1920, Celan is considered one of the greatest poets ever to have written in the German language in the twentieth century. He survived the Holocaust, but his parents did not. He carried a heavy burden of survivor’s guilt and depression and committed suicide in Paris in 1970.Celan wrote of Chernivsti as a meridian, a kind of immaterial bond that unites people all around the world.Thus the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival. It is an event built on the foundation of the cultural heritage of Chernivtsi. It celebrates a historical memory and literary legacy of its inhabitants.The stated purpose of the festival is the return of Chernivtsi to the cultural map of Europe and the development of dialogue between contemporary Ukrainian poets and their foreign counterparts.Yevhenia Lopata, the director of the festival, told the website Ukrainska Pravda, “Everything was under our feet. We just needed people who could gather all of this, systematize it, and create an event.”Of course what was underfoot was the multicultural history of Chernivtsi and the multiplicity of languages. And thus one of the central features of Meridian this year was “Like They Do in Babylon.”Groups of poets from various nations would gather on stage, or under the open sky in the center of the city. They read the poems they wrote in their original language. Their fellow poets would follow with translation, or even several translations. And there would not only be translations, but interpretive riffs on the original, or a collage based on motifs from several poems.This Bukovinian Tower of Babel showed, as reported by the FAZ and other German-language media now intrigued by the festival, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Romania for Kids, with Karyn from CASE OF ADVENTURE. We have a fun 24 page Romania for Kids printable pack for you to download, including a crossword, word searches, coloring page, postcards, language cards, match up game, passport stamp and visa, maps pages and flag, notebooking page, recipe cards, food flags and more! Get the pack below. Read or listen to Romania for Kids, watch the videos and download the Romania printable pack. Click the play button in the player above to listen now (or listen in on iTunes or your favorite podcast app).   Romania for Kids Romania is a country in Europe and is actually halfway between the North Pole and the equator. The name, ‘Romania’ comes from the Latin word, ‘Romanus’, which means “citizen of Rome”. Long ago, Romans conquered and colonized the area which is modern day Romania. There is even a city called Roman in inside Romania. So a person could live in Roman, Romania! It is a very green and beautiful landscape with mountains, hills and plains, forests, waterfalls and rivers. There are many farms and old cities with fancy old-fashioned buildings and stunning architecture. The capital city is called Bucharest. Nearly 2 million people live in Bucharest which is the 7th largest city in the European Union, after Vienna and Paris. Romania is a fascinating country because it was one of the last countries in the world to move away from communism. Communism is when the government controls everything and takes away many of the people’s freedoms and possessions! There are still a few communist countries left in the world, but thankfully not many. In the 1800s, a prince from Germany, became Romania’s first King – King Carol I. He declared Romania an independent and sovereign state. Romania went through many changes in the early 1900s and then after the second world war, It’s 23 million citizens lived under the rule of one of the 20th century’s most controlling dictators. His name was Nicolae Ceauşescu. Learning about Romania is very sad because there has been so much suffering there. But then that is true in so many countries. We should always be grateful to those who have gone before us to fight for freedom from oppression. Things in Romania are much better these days than they used to be and Romanians are working hard to recover from Communism, with the help of other countries in Europe. Besides the large forests which cover a quarter of the country, there are many areas with flat plains for farming and rich soil for crops. There are stunning mountain slopes with ski resorts and in some places, Glaciers have formed beautiful lakes and caves. There are also salt mines, coal mines and iron mines. In Romania you can explore bat-caves with torch lights, go for a swim in a volcano crater lake or drive out into the hills on a horse-drawn cart. You can follow the tracks of wild animals in the winter snow – the bear, the wolf, lynx, the boar or you can help milk cows in the village and even help the blacksmith in his forge! You may find that the blacksmith is also the dentist and doctor for that village! Transylvania is a region the middle of Romania, with Bukovina in the north, Moldavia in the northeast, Dobrogea in the southeast near the Black Sea, Walachia along the southern border, and Banat in the southwest. Transylvania includes the Carpathia Mountains and the Transylvanian Alps. Have you heard of the story of Dracula, which is set in Transylvania? THE LANGUAGE The Romanian language is 1,700 years old. It continues to change and as all languages do, it borrows many words from other languages, especially French. For example, the Romanians, say Mersi (for thank you, just like the French). They just spell it with a S instead of a C. Romanians are also greatly influenced now by American English via the Internet and television. Hello – Bună Good afternoon – Bună ziua Yes – Da (just like in Russian) No – nu Please – Vă rog (formal) Bon appetit or Have a nice meal – Poftă bună!

Hear about travel to Northern Romania as the Amateur Traveler talks to Ralph Velasco of photoenrichment.com about the region that he visited leading a recent photo tour. We talk about the regions of Maramureş and Bukovina, north of Transylvania.

Hear about travel to Northern Romania as the Amateur Traveler talks to Ralph Velasco of photoenrichment.com about the region that he visited leading a recent photo tour. We talk about the regions of Maramureş and Bukovina, north of Transylvania.

Hear about travel to Northern Romania as the Amateur Traveler talks to Ralph Velasco of photoenrichment.com about the region that he visited leading a recent photo tour. We talk about the regions of Maramureş and Bukovina, north of Transylvania.

After over 8 months I am able to do another episode.Intro music "Feel Alive by Rocket City Riot"Closing music "Bukovina by The Beggars Lake"