|
SUMMARY OF THE
FALL ISSUE
Volume 10, No. 3, FALL 2002
Slovak
Heritage Live
A Newsletter of the
Slovak Heritage and Cultural Society of British Columbia
published four times a year
Summer issue was published in
September 2002 and it was mailed to 1200 recipients world wide.
MAKŠI DUBROVAY
December 12, 1939-September 6, 2002
FROM THE EDITOR
This
issue is dedicated to the memory of my best friend and long supporter of
Slovak Heritage and Cultural Society of British Columbia who passed away
after long and courageous battle with Myleodisplasia in 100 Mile Regional
District Hospital on September 6, 2002
ŠTEFAN
(STEVE-MAKŠI) DUBROVAY
December 12, 1939- September 6, 2002
Makši,
as most of his friends called him was born on December 12, 1939 in Nové Zámky,
Czechoslovakia. Both of his parents were deaf mutes, they were furriers
and Makši was the only child. After the W.W.II the family moved to
Bratislava where he resided until immigrating to Canada in 1969. After
finishing elementary school he went to a trade school and became a
bookbinder. Since they lived in a small one-bedroom apartment with no
proper sanitary facilities, he joined a swim club and this way he could
keep up his personal hygiene on daily basis. He soon excelled and became
excellent athlete and swimmer. He held three Czecho-Slovakian Junior
swimming records in 1957 and many times he was also Czecho-Slovak National
Junior Swimming Champion...
Go to MAKSI'S LINKS
MAUSOLEUM
OF
CHATAM SOFER IN BRATISLAVA
Day
prior to my departure, thanks to my friend Miroslava Dulová, we met the
President of the Jewish Community of Bratislava PhDr. Peter Salner in his
office at Kozia 18, in Bratislava. I wanted to find out from first
hand all I could about the
recently reconstructed and newly opened Mausoleum of Chatam Sofer, located
under Bratislava’s castle and the entrance to the old tunnel for street
cars and the left bank of Danube.
It was designed by architect MARTIN KVASNICA and the construction was
realized by local construction company RAFT...
EPITAPH
ON THE TOMB OF CHATAM SOFER
(stone
at the bottom)
To keep eternal remembrance, the righteous man of God shall rest in peace
in this house;
He is the crowning glory of Pressburg’s splendor and the pride of her
descendants,
The crown of rabbis. Father of scholars, a true genius, bright and alert,
Excellent and efficient in Babylon’s and Jerusalem’s Talmuds, the
pride of our kin-peace to him,
Our teacher and master, Moshe Sofer, hallowed be his memory to all
eternity.
Joy has forsaken Israel. Her splendor, Moshe, chosen by the Lord God, has
entered the grave.
All people seem to be straying through the dark, all souls seem to be
thrashed to the ground,
Because the sun has set and the light gone. The youngsters, Yeshurun’s
children, cry out:
“Where is our shepherd?” The orphan and widow groan: “Where is our
support?”…
Nitra has played an
important role in the history of the Slovak nation and it rightly deserves
the attribute of the mother of Slovak towns. It belongs among the oldest
historical, cultural and economic centres in Slovakia. The first
settlements date back to the period 30,000-25,000 years BC. This is
evidenced by the archeological findings of the so-called Gravett culture,
on the Čermán hill and in the castle cave. Discoveries from the
early Stone age (5th
to 4th
millenium BC) in the township of Mlynárce include traces of these
earliest peasant settlements. Already from the 2nd
millenium BC, the region of Nitra was known for breathing cattle and the
processing of metals. In the later Iron Age (700-800 BC), a sizeable
fortified settlement was built on Zobor. Smaller buildings were erected in
the vicinities of Lupka and Dražovce...
IMPORTANT
PERSONALITIES OF NITRA
The rich history of Nitra cannot be isolated from the important
personalities of the Slovak nation who were born or worked in the town.
The first important personality already mentioned in a document from 9th
century, was Pribina, the first duke. Names of several dukes such as
Rastislav and Svätopluk and the important mission of the Thesalonike
brothers Cyril-Constanttine and Methodius are connected with the first
state formation of western Slavs-the Great Moravia...
For FREE sample issue of
The Slovak Heritage Live Newsletter
please send in or email your postal address to:
Slovak Heritage and
Cultural Society
of British Columbia
3804 Yale Street
Burnaby, BC,
Canada, V5C 1P6
Phone/Fax:
1-604-291-8065
This limited time offer is good
only in North America
GO
TO SLOVAK HERITAGE LIVE MAIN PAGE
vlinder49@shaw.ca
Copyright © Vladimir Linder 2002
3804 Yale
Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5C 1P6
The above article and photographs may not be copied, reproduced,
republished, or redistributed by any means including electronic, without
the express written permission of Vladimir
Linder. All rights
reserved.
|