A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Krinka Vidaković-Petrov

Dr. Krinka Vidaković-Petrov - scholar, professor, translator and diplomat. PhD in Comparative Literature. Currently senior fellow (full professor) at the Institute of Literature and Art in Belgrade. Fields of interest: comparative literature and folklore, Balkan and Serbian studies, emigrant culture, Hispanic and Judaic studies, literary translation, Holocaust studies. Author of several books and numerous contributions in academic journals in Serbia and abroad. Served as ambassador of Serbia in Israel (2001-2006).

Books:

  • Srbi u Americi i njihova periodika [Serbs in the USA and their Periodical Publications]
  • The Serb National Federation. First 100 Years 1901–2001 (ed)
  • Ogledi o usmenoj književnosti [Essays in Oral Literature]
  • Kultura španskih Jevreja na jugoslovenskom tlu [The Culture of the Spanish Jews in Yugoslavia]
  • Aspects de la culture des Juifs espagnols dans l'espace yougoslave XVI-XX siecles
  • Srbija i Španija. Književne veze [Serbia and Spain. Literary Links]
  • Kalmi Baruh: Selected Works on Sephardic and Other Jewish Topics (co-ed)
  • Književno prevođenje: teorija i istorija [Literary Translation: Theory and History] (ed)

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Đorđe Nikolić

Đorđe Nikolić (1949) je osnivač (1974) i član Upravnog odbora poznatog Čikaškog centra za poeziju u kome svakog meseca već 33 godine pod okriljem jednog od najvećih muzeja na svetu, čikaškog Art instituta, nastupaju najveći američki i svetski pisci, čime je uveo u redovan repertoar i srpsku ćirilicu i srpske književnike koji gostuju u programu.

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On The Holy Liturgy

by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich

The Divine Liturgy is at the center of Orthodox Christian life. It is through the Eucharist that the faithful are united with Christ and therefore with one another. Every Eucharistic gathering is an image and a reality of the Heavenly Liturgy, i.e. unceasing Synaxis of angels and saints around God’s throne. Thus the Liturgy is the proclamation of and a real image of God’s Kingdom in this world.

In this television interview conducted by the Logos, a renowned Orthodox theologian and retired Bishop of Zahumlje and Hercegovina, his Grace Atanasije, brings forth these essential points citing historical development of the Liturgies bringing to light the present misunderstanding of certain Liturgical actions and movements.

Bishop Atanasije aptly points out the necessity for Liturgical renewal, i.e. moving away from passive liturgical attendance to active participation and immersion of the soul and body into a full communion with Christ.

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