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

Nezaboravni susreti Branka Mikašinovića

Nekadašnji novinar Glasa Amerike Branko Mikašinović, koji je više od 30 godina radio najpre za jugoslovenski, a zatim srpski servis, naše medijske kuće, nedavno je objavio novu knjigu na engleskom jeziku pod nazivom "Memorable Encounters: The Famous, Fascinating, and Ordinary People of the Serbian Diaspora" (Nezaboravni susreti - Poznati, fascinantni i obični ljudi srpske dijaspore).

Glas Amerike: Kako i kada ste došli na ideju da sastavite ovu kolekciju?

Mikašinović: Ideja o pisanju ove knjige postojala je duže vreme. Ja sam svojevremeno u američko-srpskom časopisu "Srpski svet", koji izlazi u Tusonu u Arizoni i piše o našim doseljenicima i srpskoj tradiciji tog vremena, pročitao podatke o Srbima koji su se doseljavali u Ameriku početkom prošlog veka. Te beleške su sadržale njihova imena i prezimena, dan rođenja, smrti i gde su živeli u Americi. Tada sam pomislio kako je tužno da se ljudski život svede na dva do tri reda teksta. Bila je to štura informacija o njima što me je, između ostalog, podstaklo da napišem ovu knjigu koja sadrži opise 31 ličnosti. Reč je o dugogodišnjim prijateljima i ljudima koje sam dobro poznavao. Kroz te ličnosti, ja sam mnogo toga rekao ne samo o njima već i o sebi.

Glas Amerike: Reč je uglavnom o pripadnicima američke dijaspore, ali i evropske?

Mikašinović: Da, uglavnom su opisane istaknute ličnosti srpsko-američke dijaspore, kao što su prestolonaslednik Aleksandar Karađorđević, međunarodni energetski ekspert Branko Terzić, naš cenjeni episkop istočnoamerički Irinej, bivši jugoslovenski premijer Milan Panić, poznati čikaški lekar dr Uroš Seferović, dugogodišnji predsednik organizacije “Kongres srpskog ujedinjenja” Miroslav Đorđević, srpska legenda američkog novinarstva Aleks Mačeski, zatim osnivač i urednik uglednog srpsko-kanadskog časopisa “Slovo” Vojo Mačar i drugi.

Glas Amerike: Koje ste kriterijume koristili kada ste birali ličnosti o kojima pišete u zbirci?

Mikašinović: U pitanju je nekoliko kriterijuma - da sam poznavao dotične ličnosti i da su značajne i poznate u dijaspori i američkom društvu ili u zemlji u kojoj žive. S druge strane, uključio sam i ličnosti koje nisu toliko poznate, ali su bile interesantne i sa kojima je postojala neka dublja veza.

Glas Amerike: Šta biste želeli da ova zbirka poruči čitaocima?

Mikašinović: Da se ne zaborave određene ličnosti dijaspore, da se kroz ovu zbirku razotkriju život, rad i uspesi naših ljudi u rasejanju, i da dolazeće generacije američkih Srba u rasejanju, ali i u Srbiji, kroz ovu knjigu sačuvaju trajne uspomene na njih.

Glas Amerike: Izdavač je iz Srbije, a knjiga je na engleskom. Kako je ostvarena ta saradnja?

Mikašinović: Renomirani beogradski izdavač "Čigoja štampa" u vlasništvu Žarka Čigoje pre par godina je objavio paket mojih antologija na engleskom jeziku: Srpska fantastična proza, Odabrane srpske drame, Srpska satira i aforizmi, Odabrane srpske komedije i Velike srpske kratke priče, za distribuciju u zemlji i inostranstvu. Zatim je gospodin Čigoja prihvatio ideju da objavi knjigu Memorable Encounters. Knjiga je odmah naišla na izuzetan prijem u dijaspori, a nadam se da će to biti slučaj i u Srbiji. U prikazu knjige u Politici je rečeno: “Izdavanje ove knjige se može smatrati internacionalizacijom izdavačkih delatnosti jednog srpskog izdavača”, i da će “na relaciji američko-srpskih odnosa ova knjiga predstavljati dragocen doprinos obema stranama - američkoj i srpskoj, posebno u dijaspori”.

Glas Amerike: Da li planirate da za drugo izdanje dodate još neke ličnosti?

Mikašinović: Sve je moguće, ali ova knjiga kakva jeste, po meni, jedinstvena je i svakako zadovoljava sadašnje potrebe, ali ako odziv na nju bude ono što očekujemo, ideja za drugo dodatno izdanje će svakako biti razmotrena.

Izvor: Glas Amerike


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Nebojša Malić

Nebojša Malić (Sarajevo, 1977) is a translator, foreign policy blogger and columnist.

He holds a BA in History and International Studies from Graceland University in Iowa.

Since October 2000, he has been a regular columnist for Antiwar.com focusing on the former Yugoslavia, Europe, and Russia. In addition to his two weblogs - in Serbian and English - Malić has written for several Serbian magazines, and is a contributing editor to the web magazine "Stanje Stvari." He also frequently appears on RT International and Russia's Kanal1 television, as a foreign policy commentator.

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Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan

by Bishop Athanasius (Yevtich)

In 2013 Christian world celebrates 1700 years since the day when the Providence of God spoke through the holy Emperor Constantine and freedom was given to the Christian faith. Commemorating the 1700 years since the Edict of Milan of 313, Sebastian Press of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church published a book by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan. The book has 72 pages and was translated by Popadija Aleksandra Petrovich. This excellent overview of the historical circumstances that lead to the conversion of the first Christian emperor and to the publication of a document that was called "Edict of Milan", was originally published in Serbian by the Brotherhood of St. Simeon the Myrrh-gusher, Vrnjci 2013. “The Edict of Milan” is calling on civil authorities everywhere to respect the right of believers to worship freely and to express their faith publicly.

The publication of this beautiful pocket-size, full-color, English-language book, has been compiled and designed by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, a disciple of the great twentieth-century theologian Archimandrite Justin Popovich. Bishop Athanasius' thought combines adherence to the teachings of the Church Fathers with a vibrant faith, knowledge of history, and a profound experience of Christ in the Church.

In the conclusion of the book, the author states:"The era of St. Constantine and his mother St. Helena, marks the beginning of what history refers to as Roman, Christian Empire, which was named Byzantium only in recent times in the West. In fact, this was the conception of a Christian Europe. Christian Byzantine culture had a critical effect on Europe; Europe was its heir, and then consciously forgot it. Europe inherited many Byzantine treasures, but unfortunately, also robbed and plundered many others for its own treasuries and museums – not only during the Crusades, but during colonial rule in the Byzantine lands as well. We, the Orthodox Slavs, received a great heritage of the Orthodox Christian East from Byzantium. Primarily, Christ’s Gospel, His faith and His Church, and then, among other things, the Cyrillic alphabet, too."