Monthly Archives: October 2011

Gica Manescu – Gene

Posted on October 31, 2011 by admin

La 95 de ani Gica Manescu este pentru toti cei care au norocul sa il cunoasca direct sau din scrierile sale in presa sau pe Internet un fenomen de claritate, cu o memorie a trecutului si o acuitate a observatiei … Continue reading →

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Liviu Ciulei (1923-2011)

Posted on October 30, 2011 by admin

The 60s was the decade of hope in the history of Communist Romania. After the frozen 50s which had seen the pick of the repression but also the death of Stalin, the grip of the Communist rule seemed to slowly … Continue reading →

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Sanda Weigl in Tel Aviv

Posted on October 30, 2011 by admin

How comes it that I did not know at least her name before? Sanda Weigl is a superb musician, with a deep and moving voice, whose art has its roots in the Gypsy and Romanian traditional music which she processed … Continue reading →

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Film: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Posted on October 10, 2011 by admin

Stieg Larsson was an interesting character, worth a novel or a movie by himself. A journalist and a writer of science-fiction, a left-winger who spent part of his youth training guerrillas in Eritrea, he wrote three crime novels as a … Continue reading →

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Film: Valkyrie (Tom Cruise, 2008)

Posted on October 9, 2011 by admin

The plot to kill Adolf Hitler put together in July 1944 by a group of military was the last in a series of attempts to kill the head of the Third Reich and save what could be saved of the … Continue reading →

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From Dada to Surrealism – The Catalog

Posted on October 8, 2011 by admin

The turn of events made that I first received the catalog of the the exhibition From Dada to Surrealism dedicated to the Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania organized at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. I visited Amsterdam in May, … Continue reading →

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Gmar Hatima Tova

Posted on October 6, 2011 by admin

It’s the eve of Yom Kippur and the Jewish world prepares for the fasting and the prayers. As I start to build a tradition also for the Jewish holidays on ‘The Catcher in the Sand’ here are a few works … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Posted on October 6, 2011 by admin

A life of invention, a career  that changed the industry and our lives.     Best homage I read this morning is the portfolio of his inventions that is being drawn by NYT http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html?smid=fb-nytimes   His vision combined technical thinking … Continue reading →

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A Crime Novel by Batya Gur

Posted on October 5, 2011 by admin

This is my first encounter with the novels of Batya Gur, one of the best known Israeli crime fiction writers. She was the author of six novels whose hero is the Jerusalem police detective Michael Ohayon. The title in Hebrew … Continue reading →

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Themerson & Themerson

Posted on October 4, 2011 by admin

I knew nothing about Stefan and Franciszka Themerson before seeing the documentary directed by Wiktoria Szymanska on ARTE TV. The film starts by filming the couple of artists – he was a writer, a composer and a film maker, she … Continue reading →

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