tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post6433330039991817842..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: PerspectiveYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-13867776654985437552010-03-21T00:18:28.958+02:002010-03-21T00:18:28.958+02:00Yakov - two tips for your next visit to Italy.
Go...Yakov - two tips for your next visit to Italy.<br /><br />Go to Siena and see a medieval town center less overrun by tourists than Florence - a little gem.<br /><br />In Venice - go to the old Jewish Quarter - the site of the first ghetto. You can get a good meal at a kosher restaurant there.AKUSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-10981201902642323422010-03-19T20:16:21.371+02:002010-03-19T20:16:21.371+02:00I've been trying to put myself in the shoes of...I've been trying to put myself in the shoes of a lover of Jerusalem ... <br />visiting these once important Italian cities would remind me all the time of what might have been what had been destroyed what my city had suffered over and over and though I kind of bristle at Yaacov's slight for Albinoni and Donatello and Giotto and lots of other stuff I can understand how infuriating it must be that they and the rest of us Europeans were allowed to keep so much and not only our own creations but loot galore.<br />Tomorrow my copy of the Talmud will arrive and I guess that that will outclass the Decamerone easily ;)<br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-15772015531376600612010-03-19T15:40:38.030+02:002010-03-19T15:40:38.030+02:00"For all its longevity, splendor and uniquene..."For all its longevity, splendor and uniqueness, it's hard to think of anything of lasting value that [Venice] created, except for the city itself."<br /><br />Lots of music; Vivaldi was born and lived there all his life, as did Albinoni. Monteverdi also spent much of his life there, and you could make a good argument that Western art music's Baroque period was initiated by other (now much less-well-known) Venetian composers in the early 1600s.Gileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02842991222525267985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-55832872637359978842010-03-18T19:14:36.208+02:002010-03-18T19:14:36.208+02:00Good to have you back, Yaacov.
You might like to ...Good to have you back, Yaacov.<br /><br />You might like to know that, in your absence, Fake Ibrahim was <a href="http://thehasbarabuster.blogspot.com/2010/03/problem-is-with-hasbara-not-with.html" rel="nofollow">handled</a> ;)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Xiy5aK3AU" rel="nofollow">Who let the Jews out?!</a>Avigdorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008730229882004376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-26230409895262537232010-03-18T13:13:40.139+02:002010-03-18T13:13:40.139+02:00from Constaninople through Mistra and Florence ran...from Constaninople through Mistra and Florence ran one of the major major roads that preserved ancient texts for us - maybe preserving isn't as noble as creating but I am grateful nonetheless<br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-72439044221370745222010-03-18T11:53:38.691+02:002010-03-18T11:53:38.691+02:00"Blogging is ... a waste of time"
????..."Blogging is ... a waste of time"<br /><br /><br />??????? so all diaries ever written were a waste of time????<br />the difference of course being that you by blogging share yours or a version thereof in real time <br />maybe that's damaging or maybe that's enhancing the enterprise - I have no idea but vote for the latter - <br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com