Viajando con mi camara
miércoles, 18 de mayo de 2016
viernes, 6 de mayo de 2016
Polonia.Varsovia Zydowski Cemeterio
CEMETERY¨S HISTORY.
In The late 14Th Century, Jews came to Warsaw and
settled in the Old Town between Wqski Dunaj and Piekarska streets. In the year
1527 to 1795 Jews were not allowed t olive in the city. It was not until the
mid -18th century that they began to settle in the suburbs in large numbers. In
1780 they founded a cementery in Praga. The Warsaw community established its
own cementery in 1806 outside the city ramparts, at what was then Gesia St. And
is now 49/51 Okopowa St.from its founding until 1939 about 150.000 people were
buried here. The Okpowa St.cementery covers an área of 33, 4 hectares and is
one of the last Jewis cementeries in Poland which is being used.
This “house of eternity” as the cemetery is often
referred to in Hebrew, is a monument of gravestone art, of Jewish art, and
jewish presence in Warsaw. Its value as a record of Polish Jews is
incalculable, because the material heritage of the Jewish commumity was almost
totally destroyed during World War II. Among the gravestones, one can find
traditional vertical slabs(matzevot) decorated with a wealth of ornaments
and symbolic reliefs and covered by
Hebrew inscriptions with beautifully carved letters (sections 1, 2, 8, 9 of the
cemetery). Visitors can also see splendid tombs, which differ in desing from
the traditional style )sectons 20,26,33 and the main lane ). The mausoleum of Ber
Sonnenberg (section 1) with two bas reliefs is a masterpiece. Among the
sculptors who made the tombs are : Abraham Ostrzega, Feliks Rubinlicht, Henryk
Stielman, Mieczyslaw Lubelski, Mark Antokolski and Boleslaw Syrewicz.
The styles of the tombstones and the contents of the
epitaphs reflect the diversity of Warsaw¨s Jewish community. Among those buried
here are : rabbis and tzaddikim (Hasidic leaders); leaders of secular movements
like the assimilation movement, Zionism and socialism; promotors of Hebrew;
Yiddish writers, journalists and actors; people prominent in Polish life:
industrialists, physicians, scientits, artists, publishers, philantropists and
patrons of culture. Thousands of victims who lived in the Ghetto established in
Warsaw during World war II are buried here in mass graves.
On the occasion
of the burial of a famous person, the funeral ceremonias were imposing
with huge crowds in attendance. Such for example was the funeral of the Yiddish
writer I.L: Peretz.
Until World War
II the cemetery, which included a funeral house and a symagogue, was taken care
of by the burial society (Chevra Kadisha). Now the cemetery is ownned by Jewish
Community of Warsaw. In 1973 it was officially recognized as a historical
monument: it is under the protection of the Warsaw conservator´s office. Since
1070 the appearance of the cemetery has improved thanks to the efforts of the
Community. Conservation has also been done
by the Citizens Committee for the Protection of Jewish Cemeteries and
Cultural Monuments in Poland, formed in 1981. The Committee collects infomation
about the cemetery´s history and
location of graves to replace, if only in part the original archives which were
destroyed during the war.
Etiquetas:
Polonia Varsovia Cementerio judio Zydowski
viernes, 29 de enero de 2016
LIJIANG Yunan China.
Lijiang.
Situada al noreste de la provincia de Yunan, distrito autónomo
Naxi.
Su población es de unos 350.000 según el ultimo censo.
Su cultura, historia y arquitectura la hacen diferente a todas las
ciudades de China. El nombre Naxi ya lo dice, Na significa sénior y honrado y
Xi significa gente.
Una ciudad milenaria íntimamente ligada a la tradición
Naxi, que sigue manteniendo sus costumbres ancestrales. Es hermosa por sus
calles empedradas, iluminadas por farolillos chinos, el sonido del agua de sus innumerables
canales ajardinados y bellos
puentecillos que los cruzan……
miércoles, 23 de diciembre de 2015
sábado, 10 de octubre de 2015
Namibia. Wild herds of horses in the Namib Desert.
Wild
herds of horses in the Namib Desert.
During
the next few years, the population growth is anticipated to be slow at 5 -10
horses per years, primanly due to the current small number of breeding mares
and the high mortality of foals ( approximately 40% ). This high mortality rate
is due to foals geeting left behind or lost; if long distances are
covered on a regular basis. They can get over tired and weak, in which case they
become a relatively easy pray for leopard, cheetah and hyena. Increased traffic
has also resulted in motor vehicle accidents involving feral horse. Other
mortality factors are fatal injuries, malnutrition during excessively dry
periods, and complications at foaling.
The
Garup feral horse population is divided into breeding and bachelor group. A
breeding group consists of one or more stallion/s with one or more mare/s
and their offspring.
Stallions
not associated with mares are referrend to as a bachelor stallions and live on
their own or in temporary groups. The groups often change as stallions get
injured, old or weak and are no longer able to defend their places in a
group.
The
horses do not follow a specific routine in their daily activities; They eat and
sleep in bouts during the day and night, and visit the water trough at a
frequency that depends primarily on the temperatura and the availability of
food.
The
horses main diet consists of Eragrostis nindensis, a perennial grass that grown
average height of 2-5 cm in dry periods, as well as Stipagrostis species and a
few shrubs. In hot weather ( above 30 degrees celsius) they drink on average
every 30 hours, but in cold temperaturas (below 22 degree celsius) they
only drink on average every 72 hours. This would explain the frequent absence
of horses from the trough.
viernes, 4 de septiembre de 2015
Ciudad de Panama. Panama.
Ciudad de Panama la avenida Balboa junto a la linea costera de la ciudad.
Un músico en el casco viejo de la ciudad con unas simpáticas admiradoras
lunes, 11 de mayo de 2015
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