Bucharest Of Yore
A thousand years ago on the spot where Bucharest stands today there rose a town called Perun; this Perun was the god of fire and thunder with the ancient Slavs, featured with a golden face, silver hair and beard. It replaced the Greeks' Zeus and the Roman Jove. The
Brief Presentation Of The Armenian Community
Excerpts The oldest findings prove the presence of Armenians on the present territory of Romania, more precisely in Moldavia, in an inscription on a tombstone in Cetatea Alba, dated 967 AD. The Hungarian chroniclers Simon Kesay and Thuroczi recorded that, under Duke Geza
Ecaterina Chele – Povestea vieții mele
Ediție îngrijită de Valeriu Matei „Ceea ce impresionează în cel mai înalt grad la lectura acestei mărturisiri – așternută pe hârtie cu mult har și sinceritate de Ecaterina Chele, învățătoarea din Basarabia, fostă deportată de regimul bolșevic în iunie
On Armenian Writers
When I was asked to write these lines, I thought I had got it wrong, or they had gone to the wrong person. Writing about Ştefan Agopian and Bedros Horasangian (I give their names in alphabetical order, but who knows what may come out of it, you're never too sure with
On Jews And Judaism
The Jewish problem is not only a problem of the absolute Mathematician; it is one of the whole mankind. The first Christian commentators of the Pentateuch kept calling the attention to the mistake of registering the Scripture to the letter. Certainly, the Jews in Moses'
Présences de la peinture contemporaine roumaine en France avec Soleil de lʼEst entre 2009-2012
Albumul prezintă lucrări de Levente Albert, Jan Albu, Ion Atanasiu Delamare, Dorin Baba, Cornel Bârsan, Călin Beloescu, Dimitry Brodetski, Viorel Chirea, Mariana Cinteanu, Cristina Ciobanu, Dan Cioca, Bogdana Contraș, Gelu Costea, Rodica Costianu, Daniel Crăciun, Horea
On Minority Writers
The idea to bring together in one volume (be it even one issue of a prestigious publication) excerpts from the works of ethnic minority writers seems to me generous and even necessary. From the very beginning, one characteristic distinction appears useful to me. Since this
Ivor Porter (1913-2012) - Un englez în istoria României/An Englishman in Romanian History
Volum bilingv, în limbile română și engleză, editat de ICR în parteneriat cu Fundaţia Culturală „Memoria“, cu prilejul împlinirii a 100 de ani de la nașterea marelui diplomat, personalitate al cărei nume se leagă de istoria României, biograf al Regelui Mihai
On The Romanian Melting Pot
When King Béla of Hungary decided to invite the Saxons to settle in Transylvania, the land had been severely depopulated by the Mongol invasion. The Germans came from the dry lands of Northern Europe and found here what must have seemed to them sort of a Promised Land.
Kaddish Elegy
1Not you, Allen Ginsberg,nor you, the Jewish God of Revenge,nor his five-thousand years old people,shall hear my Kaddish,but you, Gentiles, shall hear it,here,in Europe. I, the uncircumcised,a child of the baptized childrenof a thousand years, -before your eyes I grew a
On Hungarian Literature
Four years ago, in June 1996, the World Conference on Language Rights held its session in Barcelona, the capital of the Spanish region Catalonia. As the result of several years' work of preparations, the Universal Declaration of Language Rights was adopted here. PEN,
Cursuri pentru dascălii de limbă română din ţările vecine
Institutul Cultural Român, prin Direcţia Români din Afara Ţării, organizează la Olimp, în perioada 5-17 iulie 2007, Cursurile de perfecţionare pentru cadre didactice care predau în limba română în ţările din jurul României, ediţia a XVI-a. Vor participa