Leonid komarovskiy biography of abraham

This is an overview of the life and works of Pavel Florensky, an important and singular figure of the period rightly described as the Silver Age of Russian mathematics, with a substantial overlap with the Silver Age of Russian literature, poetry and philosophy. Florensky is certainly among the great philosophers-theologians of the twentieth century, with a very atypical trajectory of life. His work in philosophy is imbued with mathematical ideas. Talking about his life and works is also an opportunity to reflect upon the Russian mathematical school of the first third of the twentieth century, its philosophical foundations, and the conflicts it underwent. It is also an occasion for discussing poetry, literature, and art during the Russian Silver Age.

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   In (Lossky 1952, p. 178), the philosopher Nikolai Onufriyevich Lossky (1870–1965) quotes an article by B. Filistinsky titled A Russian Leonardo da Vinci in a concentration camp, in which the latter says about Florensky: “A new Leonardo da Vinci was standing before us and we all were conscious of it.”

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   See Vassili Rozanov (Rozanov 1984, p. 413).

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   In the mission to save
   the Jews of Romania and Bessarabia

   by Baruch Kamin

   Translated by Sara Mages

   It is no coincidence, that among the dozens of emissaries from Israel, who were selected for the mission to rescue Jews from the Diaspora during the Second World War, were many from Bessarabia. There were several reasons for this: the special status of the Zionist movement in Bessarabia, which was formerly part of Russia, and later, between the two world wars, part of Romania. The proficiency of the former residents of Bessarabia in both languages - Russian and Romanian, and maybe we should mention the decisive reason: their passion for the war against the Nazis and providing help to their relatives and loved ones who remained in the Diaspora. Many former residents of Bessarabia enlisted in various auxiliary units in the British Army, and later, with the establishment of Jewish combat units (“Buffs”), many of them enlisted in these units assuming, that in this way, they would be able to fulfill the above two goals that stood before their eyes. However, as is well known, the Allies refrained from transferring Jewish combat units to the front on various excuses, justified and unjustified, and in the meantime the mass-murderers carried out the wor