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

Why isn’t Zoran Zivkovic better known in this country? He possesses an imaginative ingenuity and charm similar to that of, say, Paul Auster or Italo Calvino, with bits of Kafka, Borges and Beckett mixed in. His body of work, superbly translated (mainly by Alice Copple-Tosic), has even grown substantial enough that Cadmus Press is bringing out a multi-volume “Zoran Zivkovic Collection,” which already includes “Impossible Stories I,” “The Papyrus Trilogy” and “The Five Wonders of the Danube.” Certainly anyone who loves to read will love reading this Serbian fabulist’s entrancingly bookish stories and novels.

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„Вашингтон пост”: Живковић поседује имагинативну проницљивост и шарм Остера или Калвина

„Вашингтон пост” је пре неколико дана донео је обиман и веома похвалан текст из пера угледног критичара Мајкла Дирде, добитника Пулицерове награде за новинарство, о чак три књиге нашег најпревођенијег писца Зорана Живковића: „Трилогија Папирус”, „Пет дунавских чуда” и „Немогуће приче I”.

Амерички издавач Кадмус прес управо је овим делима недавно отпочео веома амбициозан пројекат „Колекција Зорана Живковића” у оквиру кога ће бити објављена сабрана прозна дела нашег аутора на енглеском у чак 32 тома – 11 у тврдом повезу и 21 у меком. До краја године појавиће се и четврти том издања у тврдом повезу, „Немогуће приче II”, а током 2017. и 2018. изаћи ће преосталих 28 томова – по један у просеку на сваких 26 дана. Ово је први пут у историји српске књижевности да један наш писац добија сабрана дела код неког великог америчког издавача.

– Зашто Зоран Живковић није боље познат у САД – пита се на почетку свог приказа Мајкл Дирда. „Он поседује имагинативну проницљивост и шарм једног, рецимо, Пола Остера или Итала Калвина, уз оно што је понајбоље код Кафке, Борхеса и Бекета. Његов прозни опус, изврсно преведен на енглески, постао је уистину обиман, а да нам га представи потрудио се Кадмус прес који је уприличио пројекат „Колекција Зорана Живковића” у склопу кога су се ове јесени појавиле три књиге: „Трилогија Папирус”, „Пет дунавских чуда” и „Немогуће приче I”. Свако ко је заљубљен у читање несумњиво ће бити задивљен очаравајућим књижевним световима у причама и романима српског фабулисте.

Извор: Политика
Фото: А. Васиљевић

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Bishop Longin (Krčo)

(1997–)

His Grace Bishop Longin of New Gračanica and Midwest America was born on September 29, 1955 as Momir Krčo in the town of Kruscanje Olovo. His parents were Stanoje and Andja Jovanovic. He attended grade school in Olovske Luke from 1962 to 1970. He entered Three Hierarchs Seminary in Monastery Krka in 1970 and graduated in 1975.

During this time he was tonsured a monk and received the small schema as a fifth year student. The tonsuring was done by Bishop Stefan of Dalmatia on the eve of the school Slava of the Holy Three Hierarchs on February 11, 1975. At the Divine Liturgy on February 12th he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Stefan. On February 13th, he was ordained a priest (he was twenty years old at time of his priestly ordination.)

He entered the Moscow Theological Academy in 1975 where he graduated in 1979. From October 1980 to April 1981, he served in the Diocese of Zvornik-Tuzla as secretary of the Executive Board. He was also administrator of two parishes. On the decision of the Holy Synod of Bishops he was appointed as lecturer of the Holy Three Hierarchs Seminary in 1983 for two years.

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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."