Re: [Cz-L] Otto von Habsburg deceased.

Thank you Iosif for sending us this information.
I will translate from the German:

"In Czernowitz there existed the synthesis between national
understanding
and a higher, one might say, a European attitude or point of view.
Here, it was proven that in a location of mixed nationalities, it was
possible,
in the spirit of a joint culture, for nations to achieve great
things, i.e. that
it is possible for communities of different religion and speaking
different languages,
to be brought together, peacefully and in the service of a great and
joint idea."

It did work for many years and it could work again.

Mimi

On Jul 4, 2011, at 12:04 PM, iosif vaisman wrote:

> Otto von Habsburg considered old Czernowitz as a model for a new
> Europe. His book "Idee Europa" (Muenchen: Herold Druck, 1976)
> included a chapter entitled "Czernowitz, oder Was ist Toleranz?" in
> which he wrote (perhaps a little bit idealistically): "In Czernowitz
> gab es die Synthese zwischen nationalem Verständnis und einer höheren,
> man möchte sagen europäischen Einstellung. Hier wurde in einem
> gemischtnationalen Raum bewiesen, daß die Völker im Geiste einer
> gemeinsamen Kultur Gewaltiges leisten können, daß es möglich ist,
> verschiedene Sprach- und Glaubensgemeinschaften friedlich und im
> Dienste an eine große, gemeinsame Idee zusammenzuführen".
>
>
> Iosif Vaisman

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