Word: serotta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...open secret. Flights arrive almost daily from Madrid, Paris, Rome and Vienna, together with budget services from Bratislava, London Gatwick and Dublin. In all, more than 320,000 foreigners holidayed in Dubrovnik (pop. 37,000) last year, up from 250,000 in 2002. "Dubrovnik is a jewel," says Ed Serotta, a Vienna-based historian and frequent visitor. He recommends a stroll on the 11/4-mile medieval wall encircling the city; on one side is a bird's-eye view of white stone architectural treasures and on the other a panorama of unspoiled coastline and open sea. "It will make your...
...project director Jerzy Halbersztadt. These efforts have one thing in common: their focus is not on how Jews died at the hands of Hitler and his sympathizers, a story that has been searingly told elsewhere, but instead on how they lived. "This is not a Holocaust project," says Ed Serotta, director of the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation in Vienna. "We're providing the elderly Jews of Central and Eastern Europe with a platform to tell us about, and show us, the world that was destroyed." The platform itself is noteworthy. The Centropa oral history project appears...
Perhaps it is a mistake, though, to measure the quality of the Jewish revival merely by counting heads in the synagogue. American photojournalist Ed Serotta, who has spent the past 10 years chronicling the revival of Judaism in Central Europe and whose work appears on these pages, recalls an incident in northern Romania where he met a kosher butcher who traveled four days a week to deliver meat to just 30 families. ``I asked him, `How can such small numbers count?' He chuckled and looked at me as if I'd asked an enormously stupid question. `Numbers don't count...
...Andrew H. Serotta '91, on the Harvard chess team's sweep of the 1990 Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championship last month...
...first-board honors with a 5.5-0.5 gamerecord, beating two international masters.Edelman, Serotta and graduate student MarkGlickman each earned scores of 5-1. Serotta wonthird-board honors...