Thursday, December 31, 2009
С Новым 2010 годом!!!!! / Happy new year!!!!!
С Новым 2010 годом!!!!! / Happy new year!!!!!
В 2010 году желаю вам:
12 месяцев без болезней,
53 недели всего хорошего,
365 дней счастья,
8760 часов успеха,
525600 минут любви и
315360000 секунд приятных моментов.
Katzmanyata/ Кацманята
Monday, December 28, 2009
Аарон на своей первоий Новогодней Елке. Встреча с Дедом Морозом. Декабрь 2009
Аарон на своей первоий Новогодней Елке.
Встреча с Дедом Морозом.
Декабрь 2009
Check Aaron's first New Year's video. Aaron is really happy to see Ded Moroz.
Enjoy.
Встреча с Дедом Морозом.
Декабрь 2009
Check Aaron's first New Year's video. Aaron is really happy to see Ded Moroz.
Enjoy.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Trip to south of Equator (Argentina and Uruguay)
Dulche de Leche, Empanadas, Mate, Tango, Gaucho, Tigre, Recoleta, Boca Juniors, Obilisco, Avinido Julio de 9, Buquebus, La Plata, Caminito, Tortoni, Florida , Plaza de Mayo, El Estable, Porta Madero, San Isidro, Hellato, menorahs, Huevos , Colonia de Sacramento and Beef, Beef and ones more Beef - is a quick description of our trip to Argentina (Buenos Aires) and Uruguay (Colonia de Sacramento).
We arrived to Argentina – country ruled by Gucci loving, high hill wearing Senora El-Presidente Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on morning of December 10 2009. Actually Argentina is ruled by familia Kirchners since 2003 before Cristina’s hubby Nester Kirchner was a president and in 2011 he is planning to run again, Sort of family business.
Argentina and Uruguay are Spanish speaking countries, however none of Argentines and Uruguayans will tell you that they speak Spanish. Spaniards, Chileans, Columbians, Venezuelans, Mexicans will agree that they speak Spanish, but not Argentines and Uruguayans – they speak Castellano. Even ATM machine at Buenos Aires will ask you if you prefer service in English or Castellano. Good bye in Argentina is Chao – and this is one of really few words they borrowed from Italian language, the people who a predominantly Italian who speak Spanish (sorry Castellano).
Portanos ( the name of people from Buenos Aires ) are really proud of two things which they are considered biggest in a world, to be correct the widest in a world. First is La Plata river which every portano will tell you is 274 kilometers wide, however if you look at the world map it is look like a bay not a river. Second is Avenida Julio de 9 is a widest Street in a world, I would agree, I counted myself it is 19 lanes wide and I was not able to cross it in one green light.
In Buenos Aires you can find two kinds of taxi services, they are Radio Taxi and taxis who are pretend to be taxi. The taxi drivers of second kind of service got a hang of one of latest technologies – color copy Xeroxing, which is very helpful in creating good quality paper copies of Argentinean currency of all denomination, which they distributed easily in a form of change or splitting the big amount. They are quite the tourist guides therefore their services cost three or four times more than the Radio Taxi and after that you left with a souvenir of nicely Xeroxed Argentinean Pesos given to you as a change.
Argentina is a country with a high Spanish influence; however the best known Spanish pass time of bull fighting is outlawed there, they are killing cows for different reason spatially for beef and lather. O, Argentinean Beef - if you tried it once you are not going to be able to eat beef anywhere else. So be careful, if you want to enjoy red meat once in awhile, stay away from Argentinean one, because all other beef you are not going to enjoy anymore. However regarding pastime Argentinians got their own – it is a Tango. You can see people dancing tango everywhere - clubs, cafés, restaurants and even streets. If you see two men dancing Tango it doesn’t mean you crashed alternative life stile party, it is a very common phenomenon in Buenos Aires. Tango originally started as a dance between two men and woman came only latter in a picture as far of the dance concern.
Argentinians cannot start their day without giving a kiss to the left chick of the familiar for them person they met on a street, work or etc. No matter who you are man, woman, what kind line of work you do you are up for a kiss if you met someone whom you know. Smooch in a left chick in Argentina is an alternative to handshake in America. Especially it’s looks funny than you see group of construction workers or policemen doing it on the street.
On December 14, 2009 we left hassle and bustle of Buenos Aires cross the widest river in a world - La Plata and reached a quiet Uruguayan shore. Town of Colonia del Sacramento is a first Uruguayan town which was built by Portuguese settlers in 17 century. History of the town is a constant battle between Portuguese and Spanish domination. First it was Portuguese town when it become Spanish, when Portuguese again, Spanish again, Portuguese, Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish, when for a change it become Brazilian and since 1825 it is in Uruguayan hands, I assume now for a long.
During the trip we met groups of different people from all over the world. We met Argentines, Uruguayans, Paraguayans, Columbians, Swiss, Belgians, Finns, Russian Jews from US (like us) and many others. We met Chinese-American guy who were born in Hong Kong and now lives in Sweden. We met Jewish-Russian Israeli former flight attended who were born in Poland and now lives in US. We celebrated Hanukkah with Buenos Aires Lubavich Chasidim on a Eva Peron square in a center of Palermo ( biggest borrow at Buenos Aires). Could you imagine Eva Peron Square full of Chasidim and menorah in a center. In our hotel we met group of De Paul students from Chicago, one of them started talking to me in Spanish, despite the fact that we conversed in English day before. I told him that my Spanish is little rusty and is good only for saying Holla and Muchas Gratsias. He was surprised and told me that I look like I can speak Spanish, he thought I am Argentinean. I told him that I only look like the one, looks could be deceiving. American tourists thought of us as Argentinians, however Argentinians assumed that we are their northern neighbors from Brazil. And this is not a first time than it’s happened, on the previous trip to Czech republic locals thought the same. So in words of our Brazilian look a likes we said – Chao! To Argentina on December 16, 2009 and arrived to Chicago next day.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Aaron's new dance moves.
Aaron shows us a new dance moves as well as his ball kicks as a future footballer.
Future Barishnicov or Beckham in a making!!!!
Enjoy!!!
Future Barishnicov or Beckham in a making!!!!
Enjoy!!!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Aarosha in a Lincoln Park Zoo
Check out a new movie, where you can see how Aaron spent one day in November by playing at home, watching cartoons on TV and finishing up at Lincoln Park Zoo. It was a day well spent, and we have a film to prove it.
Enjoy!!!!
Enjoy!!!!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Дорогие Москвичи и гости столицы.
For all Moscowites (present and former) all over the world and guests of the capital. Small excourse in a Moscow History of XX century, small animation of Moscow expansion and its territorial subdivision during that time. Here you can find Pervomaysky ( Первомайский Район ) and Sakolnechesky ( Сокольнический Район ) districts were I was born and spend most of my Youth.
Double-Click on the picture to see animation.
Double-Click on the picture to see animation.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Aaron and his shopping experience.
Recently Aarosha went to the Treader Joe's to get something Вкусненькое for his mama and papa. Aaron is a nice boy who cares about his family, so they will have something tasty on their diner table.
Here is a picture of Aaron doing shopping for his family.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Another Oops by Norwegian Nobel Committee
Before saying whatever I want to say, I want to mention that I am not a Republican and in all presidential elections except the last one (starting 1996) I voted for Democratic ticket.
Ether I or whole world is going crazy. I could not hold it anymore. I thought, winning the presidency of the biggest power in a world was enough, but Nobel Prize only after 8 month of presidency it’s TOO MUCH. I tried to think what extraordinary deed he accomplished recently, except being only completely unknown person to win presidency of United States. If I was in his shoes, I would be extremely honored and politely decline the prize ‘til the time I would do something worth while to belong to such exclusive club.
For right now I only can say:
Another Oops by Norwegian Nobel Committee, don’t you think Arafat was enough.
Ether I or whole world is going crazy. I could not hold it anymore. I thought, winning the presidency of the biggest power in a world was enough, but Nobel Prize only after 8 month of presidency it’s TOO MUCH. I tried to think what extraordinary deed he accomplished recently, except being only completely unknown person to win presidency of United States. If I was in his shoes, I would be extremely honored and politely decline the prize ‘til the time I would do something worth while to belong to such exclusive club.
For right now I only can say:
Another Oops by Norwegian Nobel Committee, don’t you think Arafat was enough.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
And the prize goes to... Israel.
This is a time of the year, than Nobel prices are giving out by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. I am happy to announce that this year academy price would go to Israel. Today Ada Yonath received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz, for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome.
I would like to post a map of distribution of Nobel price winners through out the world. Looks like Boston, San Francisco, Washington and London left others far behind. Israel look like an island in the middle east/ Asia area. Chicago is doing well to, probably due to School of Economics in University of Chicago.
Enjoy the map!!!! Have not posted them in a while.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Beau Jest - Chicago-Jewish romantic comedy
Beau Jest – is a nice romantic comedy about the need for adult children to be true to their own feelings and goals vs. their desire to please their parents. The movie has a huge dose of Jewish and Chicago flavor, so it could easily branded as Chicago-Jewish romantic comedy. As a conclusion I don’t think it is a surprise that it shown only in one movie theater around the country – Wilmette Theatre (which located in a heavily Jewish North/North West suburbs of Chicago). So if you like Jewish Humor with a Chicago flavor – you are in for a treat, Beau Jest is right up your alley.
The plot of the movie is relatively simple:
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When Sarah Goldman, a lovely young school teacher in Chicago, wants to please her parents, she invents a boyfriend whom she believes will be the man of her mother's dreams. When her parents insist on meeting the man, Sarah hires Bob, an actor, to pretend to be her "beau". The masquerade works flawlessly for a time and brings comic situations, but in the end, their lives are irrevocably changed.
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BEAU JEST is the hilarious, heartwarming story about Sarah Goldman, a beautiful young school teacher from Chicago who is involved with Chris, a great guy with just one apparent flaw, he's not Jewish. Sarah tells her parents that she is no longer seeing Chris, but continues to date him in secret.To keep her mother from trying to fix her up with "nice Jewish boys," Sarah invents the perfect boyfriend and regales her parents with stories of the man of her mother’s dreams. Eventually they insist on meeting the man, and in desperation, Sarah hires Bob, an actor, to play the part of her new beau. Unaware of the scope of the role he has taken on, Bob accompanies Sarah to dinner with her parents and her brother Joel. He quickly realizes that what he has gotten himself into is much more than he bargained for. It will take all of his charm, wit and improvisational skills to pull off the charade. But Bob rises to the occasion, and the antics that follow is only the beginning of a side-splitting tale that will have you rolling in the aisles, and wiping tears from your eyes at the same time. BEAU JEST stars Lainie Kazan, Robyn Cohen, Tony Daly, Willie Garson,Greg Cromer and Seymour Cassel.
To learn more about the film and see the trailer of it go to
The plot of the movie is relatively simple:
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When Sarah Goldman, a lovely young school teacher in Chicago, wants to please her parents, she invents a boyfriend whom she believes will be the man of her mother's dreams. When her parents insist on meeting the man, Sarah hires Bob, an actor, to pretend to be her "beau". The masquerade works flawlessly for a time and brings comic situations, but in the end, their lives are irrevocably changed.
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BEAU JEST is the hilarious, heartwarming story about Sarah Goldman, a beautiful young school teacher from Chicago who is involved with Chris, a great guy with just one apparent flaw, he's not Jewish. Sarah tells her parents that she is no longer seeing Chris, but continues to date him in secret.To keep her mother from trying to fix her up with "nice Jewish boys," Sarah invents the perfect boyfriend and regales her parents with stories of the man of her mother’s dreams. Eventually they insist on meeting the man, and in desperation, Sarah hires Bob, an actor, to play the part of her new beau. Unaware of the scope of the role he has taken on, Bob accompanies Sarah to dinner with her parents and her brother Joel. He quickly realizes that what he has gotten himself into is much more than he bargained for. It will take all of his charm, wit and improvisational skills to pull off the charade. But Bob rises to the occasion, and the antics that follow is only the beginning of a side-splitting tale that will have you rolling in the aisles, and wiping tears from your eyes at the same time. BEAU JEST stars Lainie Kazan, Robyn Cohen, Tony Daly, Willie Garson,Greg Cromer and Seymour Cassel.
To learn more about the film and see the trailer of it go to
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Aaron at Lamb's farm
Aaron at Lamb's farm - for a fun time at Mary-goes-a-round, Children Rail Road and pat zoo with cow, goats, lambs, lamas, pigs and chickens. It was a nice time to celebrate autumn season which came upon us all of the sudden, with red and yellow lives on trees, pumpkins and chilly weather.
Let enjoy the beautiful autumn.
Aarosha surrounded by pumpkins. I did not know that cows are so big.
Let enjoy the beautiful autumn.
Aarosha surrounded by pumpkins. I did not know that cows are so big.
New Aaroshka's film ( September 2009).
Check out new Aaron's video, couple weeks ago I posted several photos of Aaron doing summer cleaning on our front yard check out the movie shot on the same day.
Enjoy!!!!!
Enjoy!!!!!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sholem Aleichem
This year was 150th anniversary since the birth of the greatest Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem became something for Jews in Soviet Union that help them to identify themselves as a Jews. If you were a Jew you were reading his books, in Russian translation, but still Sholem Aleichem’s books, trying to catch rarely coming out movies as Tavie the Milkman or Wandering Stars. Something what really made you a Jew in former USSR , no it is not a fifth line in your passport, it is a collection of Sholem Aleichem’s work in five volumes which came out in USSR in 1959 to commemorate 100th birthday of great Yiddish writer. If you would visit somebody’s home in former Soviet Union, and would see these books on a bookshelf you could say for sure that this is a Jewish home. The irony of faith – that the last film which was produced in Soviet Union was - Sholem Aleichem’s Wondering Stars, which came out in a late 1991, just before USSR fell apart.
Friday, September 25, 2009
gdeetotdom.ru
The new website was unveiled on a Russian internet, dedicated to all buildings build in Moscow and St. Petersburg proper. Website consist of Google Street View look like feature, and database with photos and details for all buildings of the two Russia’s biggest cities. The name of this site is http://www.gdeetotdom.ru/. I was able to find all the buildings where I lived as well as buildings of my schools and institute. It was very touching, I was full of sentiment and nostalgia for times when I lived where half way around the world.
Check pictures
Check pictures
Chelyabinskaya ul. dom 19 korp 2 apt 207 (1978-1989)
Sretinka ¼ 4 floor (1972 – 1978)
Sacolnechiski Val dom 6 korp 2 Apt 4
Friday, September 11, 2009
Mameloshen (Part 2)
Recently I found really cool map of Yiddish dialects in Europe in end of 19 and beginning of 20 century. That actually pushed me to write a small article about origination of Yiddish dialects as well as a current use of the language in today’s warls.
Yiddish has many dialects, which are usually subdivided into western and eastern dialects. The last one is divided into three main dialects: Northern (so-called. Belarusian-Lithuanian dialect:
Baltic States,
Belarus,
north-eastern regions of Poland,
west of Smolensk Oblast of Russia and
part of the Chernigov region of Ukraine),
South-East ( so-called. dialect of Ukrainian:
Ukraine,
Moldavia,
the eastern region of Romania,
first of all - Moldova and Bucovina,
the southern part of the Brest Region of Belarus and
the Lublin Region of Poland),
Central (or south-west, so-called. Polish dialects:
central and western Poland,
Transylvania,
the Carpathian areas of Ukraine).
There are also transitional dialects on a border of dialect regions. In the early twentieth century the united common Yiddish “klal shprakh” was developed, which gained acceptance mainly in the universities of Eastern and Central Europe. In North America, among Hasidim immerged common dialect based on the "Hungarian" Yiddish, widely used earlier in Transylvania. In the USSR, the grammatical basis of the literary standard served as a Ukrainian dialect, whereas the phonetics based on the northern dialect. Yiddish Theater, in accordance with the tradition of its origin from Abraham Goldfaden (Jewish poet, playwright. stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre. ), played in averaged Ukrainian dialect (sometimes, referred to as the Volyn).
Western Yiddish, which by some researchers is seen as a separate language, spoken by the Jews in the western regions of Germany, Switzerland and Holland, is now almost dead due to the massive assimilation of West European Jews prior of World War II.
By beginning of XXI century Yiddish speaking world consist of 3 million people of whom 600,000 to 700,000 people considered it as their first language. Here is a short list of countries with a most Yiddish First language speakers.
Israel: 215,000, or 3% of the total Jewish population (1995)
USA: 178,945, or 2.8% of the total Jewish population (2000)
Russia: 29,998, or 13% of the total Jewish population (2002)
Moldova: 17,000, or 26% of the total Jewish population (1989)
Ukraine: 3,213, or 3.1% of the total Jewish population (2001)
Belarus: 1,979, or 7.1% of the total Jewish population (1999)
Canada: 19,295, or 5.5% of the total Jewish population (2001)
Romania: 951, or 16.4% of the total Jewish population
Latvia: 825, or 7.9% of the total Jewish population
Lithuania: 570, or 14.2% of the total Jewish population
Estonia: 124, or 5.8% of the total Jewish population
Yiddish has many dialects, which are usually subdivided into western and eastern dialects. The last one is divided into three main dialects: Northern (so-called. Belarusian-Lithuanian dialect:
Baltic States,
Belarus,
north-eastern regions of Poland,
west of Smolensk Oblast of Russia and
part of the Chernigov region of Ukraine),
South-East ( so-called. dialect of Ukrainian:
Ukraine,
Moldavia,
the eastern region of Romania,
first of all - Moldova and Bucovina,
the southern part of the Brest Region of Belarus and
the Lublin Region of Poland),
Central (or south-west, so-called. Polish dialects:
central and western Poland,
Transylvania,
the Carpathian areas of Ukraine).
There are also transitional dialects on a border of dialect regions. In the early twentieth century the united common Yiddish “klal shprakh” was developed, which gained acceptance mainly in the universities of Eastern and Central Europe. In North America, among Hasidim immerged common dialect based on the "Hungarian" Yiddish, widely used earlier in Transylvania. In the USSR, the grammatical basis of the literary standard served as a Ukrainian dialect, whereas the phonetics based on the northern dialect. Yiddish Theater, in accordance with the tradition of its origin from Abraham Goldfaden (Jewish poet, playwright. stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre. ), played in averaged Ukrainian dialect (sometimes, referred to as the Volyn).
Western Yiddish, which by some researchers is seen as a separate language, spoken by the Jews in the western regions of Germany, Switzerland and Holland, is now almost dead due to the massive assimilation of West European Jews prior of World War II.
By beginning of XXI century Yiddish speaking world consist of 3 million people of whom 600,000 to 700,000 people considered it as their first language. Here is a short list of countries with a most Yiddish First language speakers.
Israel: 215,000, or 3% of the total Jewish population (1995)
USA: 178,945, or 2.8% of the total Jewish population (2000)
Russia: 29,998, or 13% of the total Jewish population (2002)
Moldova: 17,000, or 26% of the total Jewish population (1989)
Ukraine: 3,213, or 3.1% of the total Jewish population (2001)
Belarus: 1,979, or 7.1% of the total Jewish population (1999)
Canada: 19,295, or 5.5% of the total Jewish population (2001)
Romania: 951, or 16.4% of the total Jewish population
Latvia: 825, or 7.9% of the total Jewish population
Lithuania: 570, or 14.2% of the total Jewish population
Estonia: 124, or 5.8% of the total Jewish population
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Aaron is a Золушка of XXIst century.
Золушка, послушай, крошка, потрудись еще немножко...
перемой-ка всю посуду,
и натри полы повсюду,
дров на месяц наколи,
на год кофе намели...
посади среди цветов 40 розовых кустов,
и пока не подрастут подметай дорожки тут...
перемой-ка всю посуду,
и натри полы повсюду,
дров на месяц наколи,
на год кофе намели...
посади среди цветов 40 розовых кустов,
и пока не подрастут подметай дорожки тут...
Aaron is involved in a summer cleaning chores at home. Sometimes it is nice to have extra pair of hands at the house, even small ones.
Aaron is sweeping the sidewalk to the house.
Aaron is shining door knobs and placing figurines next to the Entrance for pleasant view.
"Afghani Zionists" or Israelis in Afghanistan
At that time, then the most of Afghanistan involved in a war action between forces of NATO and not quite dead Taliban, in Balkh province for over ten years, remains relatively calm.
The province is located in the north of the country, near the border with Uzbekistan, and is inhabited mainly by Afghan Uzbeks. Balkh is patrimony of the Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who enjoys the protection from the northern neighbor in Tashkent. In the provincial center of Mazar-i-Sharif industry operates, more or less normally transportation works on time, commerce is well established, and even some tourist services present for occasional rear tourists. It is only province which has steady number of Israeli entrepreneurs which risk doing business in a constantly war-torn Afghanistan. One of the first came in late 1990 - early 2000's via former USSR countries. All of the Israeli businessmen holders of dual citizenships and, in addition to Israel's documents (which in Afghanistan, of course, do not advisable to show), are the holders, of Russian or Kazakh passport. Israelis visiting Balkh every few months, but most of the time they are housed in the neighboring republics of Central Asia, or in Israel. In Afghanistan, they have created joint ventures, officially registered as the Kazakh-Afghan and Uzbek-Afghan joint companies. Most of the time, they are food industries, in some cases they are used an Israeli technologies to do business in Balkh. Local security authorities, in some cases, aware of the fact that these "Kazakh" and "Russian" businesses are in fact the Israelis but, for regular "modest fee", Balkh’s authority have a blind eye for "Afghani Zionists."
The province is located in the north of the country, near the border with Uzbekistan, and is inhabited mainly by Afghan Uzbeks. Balkh is patrimony of the Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who enjoys the protection from the northern neighbor in Tashkent. In the provincial center of Mazar-i-Sharif industry operates, more or less normally transportation works on time, commerce is well established, and even some tourist services present for occasional rear tourists. It is only province which has steady number of Israeli entrepreneurs which risk doing business in a constantly war-torn Afghanistan. One of the first came in late 1990 - early 2000's via former USSR countries. All of the Israeli businessmen holders of dual citizenships and, in addition to Israel's documents (which in Afghanistan, of course, do not advisable to show), are the holders, of Russian or Kazakh passport. Israelis visiting Balkh every few months, but most of the time they are housed in the neighboring republics of Central Asia, or in Israel. In Afghanistan, they have created joint ventures, officially registered as the Kazakh-Afghan and Uzbek-Afghan joint companies. Most of the time, they are food industries, in some cases they are used an Israeli technologies to do business in Balkh. Local security authorities, in some cases, aware of the fact that these "Kazakh" and "Russian" businesses are in fact the Israelis but, for regular "modest fee", Balkh’s authority have a blind eye for "Afghani Zionists."
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Computer Pioneer.
Computer Pioneer.
This story happened in October of 1957 the month and the year the whole world was inspired by new developments in scenes and space explorations. The USSR lunched the first in a history of mankind manmade satellite - Sputnik. Sputnik was flying over the earth and with its beeps lets everybody know that humans on the planet earth were ready for something extraordinary, which was never done before.
October of 1957, Ohio State Psychiatric ward at Dayton Ohio. The TV which was recently purchased for money donated by the locale police pricing went missing, which caused the uproar among the local residents of the ward. For last month they become accustomed watching their favorite I love Lucy on CBS and everyone patently waited for a whole week if Lucy will let Ricky know about her mystery appearance on a his show. The show was starting in a half an hour but was no TV in a lounge. Tension was raising and any minute would reach a boiling point. In a second everyone forgot about TV, then ward director came in to the lounge and with his monotone voice asked if anybody took his typewriter – it went missing and Nurse Sophia spent whole day running around the building and looking for it. I am asking last time if anyone took my typewriter – repeated Dr. Nisboume. The room went quiet, you could even hear train passing by on Dayton Central located 10 miles away. OK no TV for a week – said Dr. Nisboume. Good at list they gonna get us new TV in a week – someone whispered from the crowd. What, is TV missing too – Dr. Nisboume was not happy. Yes – in a one voice answered residents of the facility.
On a next day TV was found as well as a typewriter, both of them were tightly attached to each other with a hefty amount of the Ducke tape warped around them. Local resident Tommy was showing his constriction and letting everybody know about his latest invention which would leave Russians in a dust with their stupid Sputnik. Tommy was so exited that he even did not noticed angry attitude toward him from the crowd gathering around. You know, I have something great – said Tommy. It is a typewriter with a TV attached to it , you will push the letters on a machine and they should appear on the screen – continued Tommy. The only thing I don’t know how to link both of them together to do that , the tape was best solution for prototype for right now. The other thing I would like to have Icons on a screen, I am not religious, but having whole bunch of them on a screen would be pretty. So far it was reasonable enough for a local psychos as well as doctor Nisbaume. They even were ready forgive Tommy for his misbehaving. But what, Tommy said next did not play well even in Psychiatric ward. I want mice to open and close windows – happily said Tommy.
Tommy was transferred to different facility with no windows. All window frames at current facility were taped, and the mice exterminators were invited to ward for complete check of the building.
The Tommy’s idea sounded crazy 50 years ago,
But is it crazy now?
Russian-Jewish Chicagoan.
I've been a resident of Chicago metro area for last 20 years ( Chicago, Des Plaines, Buffalo Grove, Arlington Heights). Being born in Russia from and having Jewish upbringing make me Russian-Jewish Chicagoan. This is why, this article , naturally , cough my eye.
Enjoy!!!
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Article by Katarzyna Zechenter from Encyclopedia "Chicago"
“Russian” immigrants include two different groups: ethnic Russians and Russian Jews. Historically, however, the term “Russian” was inconsistently used by U.S. immigration authorities to include such diverse groups as Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, non-Russian Jews, and even Germans. Historians have therefore had difficulty determining precisely how many Russian immigrants have made Chicago home over the course of the city's history. While a majority of ethnic Russians and Russian Jews settled on the East Coast, Chicago became the largest center of Russian Jews and ethnic Russians in the Midwest.
Between 1861 and 1880, a small number of Russian Jews immigrated to Chicago's South Side, where they were left relatively unharmed by the Great Fire of 1871 but then badly hit by the fire of 1874. Russian Jews began arriving in Chicago in larger numbers during the 1880s to escape the persecution that had recently begun intensifying at home. By 1930, they constituted 80 percent of Chicago's Jewish population.
The Russian Jews who arrived in Chicago between 1881 and 1920 created a substitute for the culture of the shtetl in the densely populated area around Maxwell Street, where they created a thriving outdoor market. These immigrants worked largely in the clothing industry; others became butchers, small merchants, or street peddlers. After 1910, the immigrants who had given Maxwell Street its unique character began migrating toward Ashland, North Lawndale, Lake View, and Albany Park. By 1930, the population of Russian Jews in the Maxwell Street area had declined markedly, and after 1945 many began moving even further from the city's center, to the suburbs and to West Rogers Park, which remained the largest Jewish community in Chicago through the 1990s. Between 1969 and 1990, 23,000 Russian Jews and an estimated 500 ethnic Russian immigrants settled along Devon Avenue in West Rogers Park, as well as in Albany Park, Glenview, Northbrook, and Mount Prospect.
Ethnic Russians immigrating to Chicago in the early twentieth century settled most often in West Town, eventually earning the area around West Division, Wood, and Leavitt Streets the nickname “Little Russia.”
The Russian Orthodox community organized around such institutions as Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral on North Leavitt, completed in 1903 after a $4,000 donation from the tsar. Between 1920 and 1924, many of those forced to flee in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution settled in Chicago. At the same time, a number of those who supported the new Soviet system returned to Russia to join the revolution. Still, many “reds” and “whites” continued to live side by side in Chicago. The “whites” gathered in Holy Trinity Cathedral while the “reds” met on North Western Avenue for mass, or in the Russian Workers Co-Operative Restaurant on West Division.
Throughout the 1920s, many ethnic Russians and Russian Jews worked on Chicago's West Side for McCormick Reaper (International Harvester), Western Electric, or Sears, Roebuck & Co. With large employers laying off workers in the early years of the Great Depression, the Russian-American Citizen's Club was organized in 1930 to lend a hand and voice to a growing number of unemployed workers. The Russian Independent Mutual Aid Society, a working-class fraternal society founded in 1914, incorporated in 1931 to provide benefits in cases of injury or death and to lend small sums of money to those hit hardest by an unforgiving economy.
Both ethnic Russians and Russian Jews have worked to preserve their own cultures while simultaneously adapting to life in the United States. The Russian Literary Society was founded in 1890. The short-lived Russian People's University (1918–1920) as well as various cultural festivals such as “Znanie” were created to preserve traditional Russian folk songs, literature, and dances. And though only a handful survived more than a few years, at least 19 newspapers and 11 Russian magazines were published in Chicago after 1891. In 1973 the Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (FREE) began helping to ensure that local knowledge of Jewish heritage be remembered and shared. Other Jews from the former Soviet Union have maintained more of a Russian identity than a Jewish one, continuing to speak Russian and, together with ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, supporting the publication of more than 10 magazines in Russian, including the biweekly Zemliaki (since 1996), the weekly Obzor (since 1997), and the daily Svet (since 1992). They have also organized language-specific libraries, poetry readings, and choirs.
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Article by Katarzyna Zechenter from Encyclopedia "Chicago"
“Russian” immigrants include two different groups: ethnic Russians and Russian Jews. Historically, however, the term “Russian” was inconsistently used by U.S. immigration authorities to include such diverse groups as Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, non-Russian Jews, and even Germans. Historians have therefore had difficulty determining precisely how many Russian immigrants have made Chicago home over the course of the city's history. While a majority of ethnic Russians and Russian Jews settled on the East Coast, Chicago became the largest center of Russian Jews and ethnic Russians in the Midwest.
Between 1861 and 1880, a small number of Russian Jews immigrated to Chicago's South Side, where they were left relatively unharmed by the Great Fire of 1871 but then badly hit by the fire of 1874. Russian Jews began arriving in Chicago in larger numbers during the 1880s to escape the persecution that had recently begun intensifying at home. By 1930, they constituted 80 percent of Chicago's Jewish population.
The Russian Jews who arrived in Chicago between 1881 and 1920 created a substitute for the culture of the shtetl in the densely populated area around Maxwell Street, where they created a thriving outdoor market. These immigrants worked largely in the clothing industry; others became butchers, small merchants, or street peddlers. After 1910, the immigrants who had given Maxwell Street its unique character began migrating toward Ashland, North Lawndale, Lake View, and Albany Park. By 1930, the population of Russian Jews in the Maxwell Street area had declined markedly, and after 1945 many began moving even further from the city's center, to the suburbs and to West Rogers Park, which remained the largest Jewish community in Chicago through the 1990s. Between 1969 and 1990, 23,000 Russian Jews and an estimated 500 ethnic Russian immigrants settled along Devon Avenue in West Rogers Park, as well as in Albany Park, Glenview, Northbrook, and Mount Prospect.
Ethnic Russians immigrating to Chicago in the early twentieth century settled most often in West Town, eventually earning the area around West Division, Wood, and Leavitt Streets the nickname “Little Russia.”
The Russian Orthodox community organized around such institutions as Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral on North Leavitt, completed in 1903 after a $4,000 donation from the tsar. Between 1920 and 1924, many of those forced to flee in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution settled in Chicago. At the same time, a number of those who supported the new Soviet system returned to Russia to join the revolution. Still, many “reds” and “whites” continued to live side by side in Chicago. The “whites” gathered in Holy Trinity Cathedral while the “reds” met on North Western Avenue for mass, or in the Russian Workers Co-Operative Restaurant on West Division.
Throughout the 1920s, many ethnic Russians and Russian Jews worked on Chicago's West Side for McCormick Reaper (International Harvester), Western Electric, or Sears, Roebuck & Co. With large employers laying off workers in the early years of the Great Depression, the Russian-American Citizen's Club was organized in 1930 to lend a hand and voice to a growing number of unemployed workers. The Russian Independent Mutual Aid Society, a working-class fraternal society founded in 1914, incorporated in 1931 to provide benefits in cases of injury or death and to lend small sums of money to those hit hardest by an unforgiving economy.
Both ethnic Russians and Russian Jews have worked to preserve their own cultures while simultaneously adapting to life in the United States. The Russian Literary Society was founded in 1890. The short-lived Russian People's University (1918–1920) as well as various cultural festivals such as “Znanie” were created to preserve traditional Russian folk songs, literature, and dances. And though only a handful survived more than a few years, at least 19 newspapers and 11 Russian magazines were published in Chicago after 1891. In 1973 the Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (FREE) began helping to ensure that local knowledge of Jewish heritage be remembered and shared. Other Jews from the former Soviet Union have maintained more of a Russian identity than a Jewish one, continuing to speak Russian and, together with ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, supporting the publication of more than 10 magazines in Russian, including the biweekly Zemliaki (since 1996), the weekly Obzor (since 1997), and the daily Svet (since 1992). They have also organized language-specific libraries, poetry readings, and choirs.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Couple new Movies after long delay.
Couple new Movies after long delay.
Aaron is giving first interview live.
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Aarosha is walking around.
Aaron is giving first interview live.
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Aarosha is walking around.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Aaron's first steps on his own
On a May 14, 2009 Arosha start walking on his own without any support from grownups. These first step were captured on camera the same day. First step is done many to go. Aaron is 13 month and 8 days old on a day then hi started walking.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Нам уже годик!!!!!!
Check out birthday video, of Aaron turning one. Wild party with grand piano paying and car rasing, and everything done by Aaron!!!!
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
These Boots Are Made For Walking...
Check out the new film.
Aaron makes his first steps on his own, and he enjoying it very mach, on a same day huge snow storm went through Chicago, and Aaron also enjoyed sled ride through winter wonderland.
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Aaron makes his first steps on his own, and he enjoying it very mach, on a same day huge snow storm went through Chicago, and Aaron also enjoyed sled ride through winter wonderland.
Enjoy the film!!!!!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
New film from Katzman Cinema Production
Check out the new movie from Katzman Cinema Production, shot in February of 2009. Note the Aaron's Gymnastics abilities and his passion to become next IT guru.
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Aaron at Work and Play. February 2009
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Aaron at Work and Play. February 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Passport
Yesterday, Aaron became full paged American Citizen, and soon he is going to have paper to prove it. He went to Post Office in Buffalo Grove IL and applied for US passport. In a month passport should arrived in a mail. Attached is a Aaron passport picture.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
New Aaroshkas film ( January 2009).
Check out new movie from Katzman Cinema Production.
Aaron showing off his new Adidas outfit.
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Aaron showing off his new Adidas outfit.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
First Blog of 2009. Aaron learned how to pull himself up
Check it out new video, today January 9th, Aaroshka learn haw to pull himself up holding by the rails in his bed. He just figure out it today, but doing it quite nicely as a real Pro.
Go Aarosha, go.
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Go Aarosha, go.
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