www.byzcath.org Forums General Discussions Town Hall Dr. Alex Roman on "Reviving Ukrainian Christmas Traditions"

Do you have to 'save' it if all you want to do is just listen to it, like you would listen to a radio program that's on the air in real time?
Thanks
CS

(Sorry, djs, told you I was sort of computer illiterate ... ) But yes, it is a modem. I do know THAT much.
CS

Should go, per Admin's suggestion. I was just guessing that the streaming was too slow.

Have to admit that the first time I tried I was also using a lappy - and I hate it's trackpad The result was that in true Mac habit fashion, I double clicked on the link - and BINGO - I was listening to Alex in Ukrainian !! - then it did go to English to my relief. However saving it with only having 1 button for the trackpad is very annoying so I went and got my teeny Mouse [ nice wee 2 button trackwheel job ] and plugged it in , and right clicked and there it was - sitting on my desktop quicker than I could blink, soooo the second one joined it and now I can listen and concentrate in peace, in my own time.

Nice one Alex - thanks for the information

He is very talented indeed. Did you know that he is also a music (record) producer in Quebec ? (Celine Dion gotta have him )

Dear Hritzko,

It is a privilege for me to work with Father!

Did you know he is a relative of our UGC bishop Stephen?

Alex

Dear Anhelyna,

You should have seen my reaction the first time I heard the spoken Gaelic . . .

Alex

Dear Brian,

Perhaps we'll meet face to face one day!

God bless!

Alex

Alex,


I'm just going to have to consider you a cousin or something - MY great, great grandfather Yehuda Labe Balter (originally named Balterinsky - ethnically Polish) also hailed from Lithuania, siring twelve children upon two wives. Each of the children eventually came to America, some with children of their own. My grandmother Bertha, came as a four year old when her father, Moshe Aaron Balter packed up the family and climbed on the boat during the heyday of Eastern European immigration. My grandmother once wrote to a distant cousin of mine that they had the Cossacks to thank for their survival - the Cossacks made it so inconvenient to be a Jew in Lithuania, that one by one they left - years before Hitler came.

The shtetl she was born in was Eishashok (various spellings) about 37 miles SW of Vilnius. Jews had lived there for over 900 years before the Nazis obliterated it. There's a haunting display of photos of ordinary life there in the Holocaust Museaum - a photographer moved into town in the early part of the 20th Century - extra haunting to me because some of those faces look SOOOOO much like family. There are also some very difficult to read tales from there in a shattering book called "Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust" by Yaffa Eliach.


But anyway, if you aren't a distant cousin, you ought to be.


I can't listen to the interview, but I can imagine....


Best,

Sharon

Dear Sharon,

Yes, I see that our ancestors were productive indeed . . .

It's what happens when one has a firm resolve and really puts more than one's mind to such a project!

When my dad went with his dad into the Carpathians to visit with the family, a bunch of kids came out and surrounded their horse-drawn wagon.

My dad said, "Is school out so soon?"

To which his dad replied, "Be quiet . . . these are all your brothers and sisters . . ."

A spooky thing happened to me in church some years back when a man I never met came up to me and said, "I knew your uncle and I know who killed him and why . . ."

I've still not been able to find out much about this relative, but do know that his death was considered suspicious . . .

Yuck . . .

Alex

Alex and Sharon,

It would be cool to find out there is a relation there, wouldn't it?

My husband of 100% Irish descent has an uncle by marriage who is a Ukrainian Catholic in Alberta. When my husband heard Alex mention growing up with someone named Mitro, he was ecstatic - thinking it might be his uncle. That is, until I explained that Alberta and Toronto are not exactly the same neighborhood, and that his uncle Mitro is quite a bit older than Alex!

Personally, I'm an all-American Heinz-57 mutt. But they tell me that among my ancestors are a French-Canadian missionary to the Sioux Indians, and the Sioux woman he married... I assume they were Catholic, and that God's blessing to the thousandth generation of those that love Him is the reason He brought me into the Catholic church!

Tammy

Tammy,

My ancestry is just about all Eastern European, with a bit of German - and 100% Jewish.

My Dearly Beloved is German (Prussian!) on one side, and Scots-Irish on t'other. The Scots-Irish came over about the time of the American Revolution as pirates and horsethieves. (We are rather fond of that...) In any case - the Prussians on the other side of the family...

We solemnly affirm (with a perfectly straight face) that since his ancestors oppressed my ancestors, we had to get married.

That's our story & we're stickin' to it.

Cheers,

Sharon

Hi Sharon!

You wrote:"...The shtetl she was born in was Eishashok..."

Have you seen the PBS program THERE ONCE WAS A VILLAGE?? The grandaughter of the photographer of the village takes back a group of Survivors and their children and those who have roots in the shtetl. It's a WONDERFUL look at life as it was before the SHOAH and what it is like today.

Did you know that some famous people, at least here in America are from this shtetl? The actors Ed Asner and Lauren Bacall both trace their roots to this shtetl. AMOF, Ed Asner's cousin has a major part in this PBS program. It seems that his family hid the village TORAH during the last days of the shtetl and of his search for the home where he hid the TORAH.

They often repeat the program here during the month of May.

mark

CHRISTOS RAZDAJETSJA!

PAN DOKTOR ALEX, please email me off-list please, I need your help....

thanks!

mark

Dear Medved,

You can e-mail me at: alex@unicorne.org

If the Administrator has some time, perhaps he could restore my PM privileges here . . . if I have his permission . . .

Alex