Pentecost At Csíksomlyó - A Hungarian National Holiday?
Situated on a hill in the midst of the Csík valley in the heart of Szeklerland, the Franciscan order in the small village of Csíksomlyó hosts the largest annual pilgrimage in Central Europe. Regardless of their religious affiliation, three to four hundred thousand Hungarians
The Hungarians
None of the minorities living in Romania had a tenser relationship with the majority of inhabitants. Still, Romanians and Hungarians have been living together for centuries. The Hungarians in Transylvania praise their past, values and traditions within a context that permits
The Divine Salamina
excerpt Themistocles was standing at the bow of his ship, which was beyond the battle line, so he could oversee the entire battle, staring inquisitively at the enemy. He could even see the grudging eyes of the warriors, filled with hatred. But the Persian battle line still
Balkania - Our Eternal Return
I think I would never have come to love Balkania so much, had I not met Marina Marinescu in Munich several years back. We had been acquainted since we met for the first time in Athens. Florin Marinescu, the specialist in Byzantine history to whom I was talking one day in
The Faces Of the City
Life Histories in Bucharest – the 20th Centuryexcerpt All the Greeks in the city sought to make me their son-in-law. Demostene Gramatopol, 1910-? My initial intention was to interview both Greeks belonging to the old Greek community in Bucharest, and some of those who
Cu fluiere şi lăzi de zestre la Festivalul Tamisei
Meşteri populari şi artişti români participă pentru prima dată la Festivalul Tamisei (The Mayor's Thames Festival), cel mai mare eveniment urban organizat de Primăria Londrei care sărbatoreşte diversitatea culturală a oraşului de pe malul Tamisei. Peste 750.
Revista „Literatura na świecie” („Literatura în lume”), corespondentul polonez al „Secolului XXI”,
Numărul special românesc a fost realizat cu suportul tehnic al ICR-Varşovia şi cuprinde traduceri din texte de Gabriela Adameşteanu, Mircea Cărtărescu, Petru Cimpoeşu, Gheorghe Crăciun, Filip Florian, Dan Lungu, Dan C. Mihăilescu, Alina Nelega, Andrei Pleşu,
The Greeks
We do not hate the Greeks; quite to the contrary, we love them and we share the same heritage: a nationality to build; for we have the same interests, the same pains, the same hopes; and when we say 'we love them' we can bring proofs to support this statement:
The Beheaded Rooster
see movie trailer excerpt My grandfather was called Goldschmidt, H. H. I. G. Goldschmidt, and he came from Schirkanyen, near Fogarasch. He was a Saxon of Transylvania, coming from a family eight hundred years old! and, documents could prove it, a pure German for twenty five
The Bitter Aftertaste Of Finis Saxoniae
excerpt Let's not be beastly to the nemţi[1], indeed. We owe them solid buildings dating back to prosperous times, they founded many a fortified city and settlement of historic importance; in one of our common sayings, absolute fairness is equated to splitting costs
Drumul spre reconcilierea naţională: de la alinarea suferinţelor la corectarea nedreptăţilor
Vineri, 26 septembrie 2008, între orele 10. 00 – 15. 00, la Institutul Cultural Român (Aleea Alexandru nr. 38, Bucureşti) va avea loc seminarul Drumul spre reconcilierea naţională: de la alinarea suferinţelor la corectarea nedreptăţilor, organizat de Fundaţia
Solitdar : Irina Botea lansează la Paris un nou concept
Promovarea tinerilor artiști români cu deschidere internațională și o mai bună înțelegere a situației romilor sunt două direcții prioritare ale acțiunii culturale a Institutului Cultural Român din Paris. Expoziția Irinei Botea : SOLITDAR (solidar+solitar),