WORT Zeitschrift

Wort Zeitschrift

"WORDS ARE AIR. BUT THE AIR BECOMES THE WIND, AND
THE WIND MAKES THE SHIPS SAIL". Arthur Köstler

We present you valuableArticles and meetings

outthe first Jewish magazinePost-war Hamburg, 2009-2011.

Dr Felix Epstein
(sel. A.)

Chairman of the LJGH

Yakov Feldman
(sel. A.)

editor-in-chief

Dear friend,

You are holding the "starting issue" of the journal of the Liberal Jewish Community in Hamburg (LJGH). This magazine is intended not only for readers of the Jewish faith, but for all those who are interested in "Jewish" topics: Jewish life, Jewish art and also Jewish politics (if one can even speak of such). This does not mean that only devout Jews can write articles for our magazine or that only Abraham, Sarah and Moses can be its main characters. As you know, Jews were involved in everything that happened in the world. And even when they weren't involved, our "friends" always made it appear as if Jews were involved. Therefore, within the pages of our magazine, we can boldly mix and match articles on all sorts of subjects, as long as they are well-written and interesting. And you – our readers – decide how attractive and interesting our magazine will be.
In our magazine, as in every other magazine, there are permanent sections that you will also find in the next issues. However, there is not yet one category in this issue: letters to the editor. Of course not, because there were no readers yet! But now that there are readers, we very much hope that there will also be the first letters to our magazine. Write to us about anything that's burning under your nails, criticize us - and that's the main thing - let us know if you have new suggestions and ideas.
As usual on such occasions, we wish the "newborn" a long life and good health - so many, many readers!

Shalom!

dr Felix Epstein (sel. A.)
Chairman of the LJGH (2009)

Dear Readers!

"WORT СЛОВО מילה" – is the first post-war Jewish magazine in Hamburg! It is also deeply symbolic that its publisher is the "still young" Liberal Jewish Community. We are an artistic-journalistic and socio-political magazine intended for both German-speaking and Russian-speaking readers. We try to build "bridges" between history and the present, between history and our everyday life.
Germany... the home of the great philosophers, scholars, poets and composers. Many invisible historical and spiritual threads connected the German Jews with their homeland. In their eyes, they were not just citizens of Germany, they felt a deep connection to this country. They all genuinely considered Germany their homeland. Unfortunately it all ended with the insane attempt at the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" - with concentration camps and with the crematoria ovens. The statement made by Rabbi Leo Baeck in New York in 1945 after his liberation from the Theresienstadt concentration camp was very significant:
"For us Jews from Germany, a historical epoch has come to an end. Such an epoch comes to an end whenever a hope, a belief, a confidence has to be finally buried. It was our belief that German and Jewish spirit on German soil meet and become a blessing through their marriage. This was an illusion - the epoch of the Jews in Germany is over once and for all".
That's what the majority thought at the time. It seemed that there was no future in Germany for the surviving Jews, that their thousand-year sojourn on German soil was at an end.
But life taught us better: Jewish communities have sprung up again in Germany, and the emigration of Jews from the countries of the former Soviet Union has breathed new life into these communities. It is now important to introduce these people to the centuries-old traditions of the Jewish people, to their history, religion, literature and art. We hope that everyone who wants to can get to know this rich spiritual heritage.
We invite you to work together and to friendly, confidential conversation about everything that is most important and interesting for you.

Yours sincerely, Jakow Feldmann(sel. A.)
Editor-in-Chief (2009)

Editor:Liberal Jewish Community Hamburg
Editor-in-Chief:Yakov Feldmann (sel. A.)
Vera Venediktova – editor of the Russian part.

Barbara Hörnicke – editor of the German part.

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Reproduction only with the express permission of the editors. The individual contributions reflect the opinion of the respective author, not necessarily the opinion of the editors.

AUTHORS CLUB

Autorenclub

HUMOR EVENING "WE STILL LAUGHING..."

On December 14, 2009, a humor evening was held in the authors' club "Wort".

As is well known, laughter heals. All the participants of the evening were convinced of this - humor admirers, authors themselves and spectators.

Laughter, jokes, relieved worries, good mood.... One got the desire to hold such meetings traditionally. There was also a good reason to laugh: these were wonderful humorous drawings and cartoons by Russian caricaturists, witty, full of irony stories by Alexander Kovarsky, Mikhail Prudovsky, Semon Kogan, poignant fables by Roza Podolskaya, apt aphorisms by Arkady Kogan, cheerful poems by Sergey Loskutov.

The audience enthusiastically applauded each performer, understanding -

humor is what stimulates
Even if someone suffers
Even if someone loses too
From the humor he rather gets.

MEETING WITH ARTIST MARGRIT VON SPREKELSEN

On November 29, 2009 in the authors' club "Word" there was a meeting with the artist

Margrit von Sprekelsen

"My life is my art",says the artist. Her creativity, intellect and openness to the world combine with some childish naivety and amazing ability to believe and dream about the future.

Several supporters of her talent, who packed the auditorium, were able to make sure of it. The artist showed and commented on her work, which aroused great interest among viewers.

EVENING DEDICATED TO HEALING NUTRITION

On October 27, 2009, an evening dedicated to health problems was held in the Authors' Club of the magazine "Word".

"How to get healthy"– this is the name of the rubric that arouses constant interest among our readers. Within this column, doctor Irina Keller continued the presentation of a new way of diagnostics and treatment of body diseases. She reminded listeners about the method of non-linear computer analysis and its role in diagnosis, recently introduced by our guest from Moscow Dr. JA Shovkoplyas was presented. After that, she dealt extensively with the questions of healing nutrition through the application of this method.

The express diagnostics of the functional state of all physiological systems of the human organism is the cornerstone. The program-preparing diagnostic and curative complex allows to determine the development of pathological processes in their initial stages, when the disease is just beginning and its manifestations are still absent. Namely, this fact allows the doctor to assign the patient a recovery program that will prevent the further development of the disease and its transition to the clinical stage.

Healing nutrition is part of this program. Optimal physiological nutrition, necessary for a specific person, can become quite a powerful healing factor. In such way, changing the diet, the health can be affected. Even Hippocrates said: "Let your food turn into your medicine...", meaning that food has a healing effect.

At the next examination, assessing the dynamics of the body condition, the doctor makes sure of the effectiveness of recommended healing nutrition.
Thus, the perspective of the using method in sick diet is confirmed. Healing nutrition is an indispensable part of modern strategy of prevention and treatment of respective diseases.

LITERARY - MUSICAL EVENING "RUSSIAN RHYMS"

On October 13, 2009 the literary-musical evening took place in the authors' club "Word".

We would like to anticipate sayingthat the evening succeeded. He showed that poetry in Hamburg does not just exist "in itself and for itself", in that it is diverse and interesting and the public can understand and perceive it. Although the auditorium was not full, this did not seem to have confused the participants, in fact to please them. The atmosphere of the evening was more comfortable and trusting. It can rightly be called a festival of poetry and music.
The singer group "With song through life" sang songs based on poems by Hamburg poets.

The singer group inventory:
Daniel Lachman – violin;
Viktor Bauer - keyboards;
Anna Kapunova and Natalia Dobrovolskaya – lead singers;
Bronislava Panfilova – evening guide;
Iosiv Mirenson - artistic director, musician and guitarist.
Poets Mikhail Koltchinsky, Friedrich Zolotkovsky, Semon Kogan read their poems, told about future artistic plans, presented new editions of their books and answered viewers' questions.

During the evening songs, music, poems sounded and the spectators did not want to disperse. One would have wished that such event evenings would mark the start of a renewed public interest in poetry.

In our opinion, author recitation is a separate genre. When poets read their favorite poems at such evenings, one can perhaps get an idea of the poetic "landscape" of our city. This indisputably increases the interest of the people of Hamburg in their poets and musicians, in their creative participation.

PRESENTATION OF THE NEXT ISSUE
THE WORD - JOURNAL

On September 22, 2009 the authors' club "Word"
Presentation of the next issue of the journal, the meeting with the authors will take place

With every new issue of the magazinethe number of its authors and readers, as well as participants in the review of each published issue, is growing. It was the same with the presentation of the third issue, which took place on September 22, 2009. Many readers who are interested in the serious, highly artistic and topical content of the magazine came together here. Musicians Mark Lubotzky and Galina Jarkova, social worker Kurt Artes, historian Viktor Meshkunov, philologist Bernd Jarema, globetrotter Vladimir Snatenkov and others spoke about it. In the evening, representatives of the Hamburg associations took part: Heinrich and Elke Kaasmann (Elevezer Hilsfond Deutschland eV), Leo Rossine (Parpageienfischland eV) and others.
We will continue to publish journal materials of interest to our readers.
All those who wish can learn about our issues on the website of the magazine.
www.wort.davidstern.de

EVENING DEDICATED TO HEALTH PROBLEMS

On July 7, 2009, an evening was held in the "Wort" authors' club, where health problems were discussed.

Methods of health rehabilitation - and assessment.

Systems of non-linear body diagnostics

Man is an indivisible whole. Treating individual organs and individual diseases is like "scooping the ocean with a teaspoon". In order to avoid many contradictions and confusions in the methods of treatment and the medical preparations accompanying them to a large extent, the wide range of applications of non-linear computer analysis (NLS) for researching the health condition of patients is appropriately recommended.
Its main purpose is express diagnostics of the functional state of all physiological systems of the human body and the healing effect of bioresonance therapy.

On this day, listeners learned a lot of new and interesting things about amazing and promising medical achievements.

The lecture was long over, but the audience didn't want to leave and kept asking new questions to Doctor Jury Shovkoplyas - the guest from Moscow. His student Irina Keller was forced to promise to come back to this topic in the future.

PRESENTATION OF THE ARTIST'S PHOTO BOOK
LYDIA SCHULGINA

On May 26, 2009 in the authors' club "Word" there was an evening dedicated

a book edition about the painter, graphic artist and sculptor Lydia Schulgina

Artist's album released in Moscow in 2009contains reproductions from all three areas of the artist's unique oeuvre, along with photographs from the family archive, fragments of letters and texts by well-known art critics. (All texts can be read in Russian and German.) The program included a preview of the artist's original works, a film about her life and work, and a short lecture by art historian Michael Scheinbaum. "The worst thing for anyone, and especially for an artist, is to be forgotten," said Michael Scheinbaum. "I'm sure that will not happen to Lydia Schulgina."

The evening was accompanied by live music. Alexander Estis conducted the moderation in German.

FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF EI RERICH

On May 19, 2009, a literary evening was held in the authors' club of the magazine "Wort",
dedicated to the 130th anniversary of EI Rerich, the mother of Agni Yoga.

In the 13th centuryIn the old Saxon town of Naumburg there lived a margravine named Ute, who became famous for her piety. According to legend, she was a "messenger" of cosmic forces, sent to do good deeds on earth. At the end of the 19th century in Russia the girl Elena was born, who was considered to be the reincarnation of Ute. Already in childhood, Elena amazed her relatives with her extraordinary abilities, and when she grew up and received a multifaceted education, she created a unique system of knowledge - a Living Ethics, or "Agni-Yoga", based on the laws of the cosmos , which is also part of the earth and humanity, based. She married the artist NK Rerich and became a source of inspiration for his work. And she was creative herself – her books became the textbook of life for many of her followers. About this and many other details of the life and work of Elena Ivanovna Rerich was reported on May 19, 2009 in the Authors' Club of the magazine "Wort" by the head of the Rerich town society Raisa Emich. Her lecture was accompanied by a film about the life of the Rerich family in Kulu (India) and a diachau of the pictures by NK Rerich.

ON THE JUBILEE OF SCHOLOM-ALEJCHEM

On April 21, 2009 a literary evening dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the great Jewish writer Sholom Aleichem took place in the Authors' Club of the magazine "Word".

The interesting storyby Leonid Kraimer about the life and work of the writer was harmoniously complemented by sections from the writer's texts, which the actress Margarita Lunis masterfully read aloud. The world of the Jewish ghetto, dear to Sholem Aleichem's heart, has disappeared from the face of the earth, but the thoughts, feelings and hopes of the heroes of his books were close and understandable to those who gathered and millions of his admirers around the world. And on our evening, this understanding also contributed to the opportunity to recognize this world in the artists' pictures and to hear the Jewish songs in the beautiful interpretation of the music trio "With the song through life". We introduce this group here: the artistic director Joseph Mirenson, the violinist Daniel Lachmann, the singer Anna Kapunova.

The audience warmly thanked the artistic participants and asked them to organize such events as often as possible.

FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF NW GOGOL

On March 24, 2009, a literature evening took place in the authors' club "Wort".
"On the anniversary of NWGogol"

performance of Taras Fisanovich,Friedrich Solotowskij, Margarita Lunis and our guests from Lübeck and Hanover aroused a great deal of interest among the spectators.