Personalities & Culture

One Melody, Two Violins, Many Lives.

Family Reflections on Yom HaShoah The essay is an excerpt from Inna Rogatchi’s forthcoming book on her personal search into...
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SOLO OF THE TORMENTED SOULS: MAESTRO LOTORO AND HIS WAY OF REMEMBRANCE

Maestro Lotoro is an incredibly busy man. He conducts, he plays, he records.  He teaches, he researches, he writes. He...
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WARM SNOWFALL: A SPECIAL NIGHT IN VILNA

It was a beautiful, canonic ‘white Christmas’ evening behind the window, but totally misplaced in time, as it  was the...
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Way Out of the Maze of Longing: Leonard Cohen’s Recipe

There are two years now after Leonard Cohen passed away.  Our dear Leonard  whom we were so incredibly privileged to...
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OPEN-ENDED DRAMA: Benjamin Balint’s search into the Kafka’s legacy

Kafka’s Last Trial is a rare book. Benjamin Balint did prove himself as a fine observer of multi-dimensional dramas, shrewd...
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Chapeau to France: Farewell to Charles Aznovour

All my life I am wondering: why on earth we are always belated in expressing our appreciation to outstanding people?...
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ELIE WIESEL: A Yahrzeit Cloud and Portrait of Love

 A Yahrzeit Cloud for Elie I think, or rather feel, that at the time around a yahrzeit of our beloved...
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The MAN WHO CAN SURPRISE. RAINER MAHLAMÄKI: FINNISH ARTIST AND ARCHITECT LOOKING INTO THE DEPTH OF THE JEWISH HISTORY

PROFILE OF THE OUTSTANDING FINNISH ARCHITECT AND HIS WORKS DEDICATED TO THE HISTORICAL MEMORY Rainer Mahlamäki (C). Sketch for the...
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ELIE WIESEL: MY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

THOUGHTS ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING OF ELIE WIESEL Elie Wiesel. Courtesy: Open Archive (C). The Present Tense...
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LEONARD COHEN: THE LIGHT OF THE LIGHT

TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN BY INNA AND MICHAEL ROGATCHI  LEONARD COHEN: THE LIGHT of THE LIGHT TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN...
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ANDRZEJ WAJDA. FINALE WITHOUT ENDING. IN MEMORIAM

ANDRZEJ WAIDA. FINALE WITHOUT ENDING. IN MEMORIAM. by INNA ROGATCHIANDRZEJ WAIDA. FINALE WITHOUT ENDING. IN MEMORIAM.  By Inna ROGATCHI (C). Wajda's contribution...
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YOU WANT IT DARKER – WE’VE GOT IT SHINING

THINKING ON LEONARD COHEN ON HIS BIRTHDAY AND THE EVE OF ROSH HA-SHANAH 5777 YOU WANT IT DARKER - WE'VE...
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