{"id":1137,"date":"2018-05-24T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/?page_id=1137"},"modified":"2020-01-08T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:04:49","slug":"shimon-lev-from-lithuania-to-santiniketan-schlomith-flaum-rabindranath-tagore-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/e-shop\/shimon-lev-from-lithuania-to-santiniketan-schlomith-flaum-rabindranath-tagore-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimon Lev &#8220;From Lithuania to Santiniketan. Schlomith Flaum &#038; Rabindranath Tagore&#8221;  (English)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1138\" src=\"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/files\/2018\/05\/Flaum_Lev_knygos-vir\u0161elis-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flaum_Lev_knygos vir\u0161elis\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"1138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/files\/2018\/05\/Flaum_Lev_knygos-vir\u0161elis-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/files\/2018\/05\/Flaum_Lev_knygos-vir\u0161elis-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/files\/2018\/05\/Flaum_Lev_knygos-vir\u0161elis.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>The book &#8220;From Lithuania to Santiniketan. Schlomit Flaum &amp; Rabindranath Tagore&#8221; is a report on the encounters of young Jewish women with 20th-century Indian thinkers, including Tagore and Gandhi.<br \/>\nThe text compiled by Israeli author Shimon Lev is a translation of Flaum&#8217;s diaries, mostly written in Hebrew.<br \/>\nThe book tells of the time that Flaum spent in Santiniketan from 1922 to 1924. It also contains copies of letters that were not published between Flaum and Tagore between 1922 and 1940.<br \/>\nFlaum met Rabindranath Tagore in the early decades of the twentieth century. She then did a teacher training course at Columbia University.<br \/>\nFlaum, who was born in Lithuania in 1893 and died in Israel at the age of 70, offered to teach at his school in West Bengal \u2013 a proposal that Tagore agreed<br \/>\nShe taught German at Visva Bharati and was headmistress of a kindergarten in Santiniketan. The book describes how Flaum interacted with leaders of the Indian independence movement during their stay in Santiniketan, including Gandhi, Annie Besant and Sarojini Naidu.<br \/>\nAuthor Lev called her the unofficial ambassador of India and said his main motivation behind the writing of the book had been to report first-hand from the eyes of Flaum Tagore and Santiniketan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Price: 5 Eur<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Only 1 book left!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book &#8220;From Lithuania to Santiniketan. Schlomit Flaum &amp; Rabindranath Tagore&#8221; is a report on the encounters of young Jewish women with 20th-century Indian thinkers, including Tagore and Gandhi. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/e-shop\/shimon-lev-from-lithuania-to-santiniketan-schlomith-flaum-rabindranath-tagore-english\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":593,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137\/revisions\/1740"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}