Led by its President Gopendu Chakrabarti, the TSH welcomed the guests and highlighted Tagore s message of universalism and world peace, so very appropriate for a diverse city like Houston.
Speaking at the event, Consulate General of Houston, Aseem Mahajan elaborated on the relevance of Tagore s travels, writings and visions of international brotherhood in the world of today and of the city of Houston in particular being a melting pot of different cultures.
“It s great to celebrate the momentous occasion of Tagore s visit to Houston a century ago, to deliver a lecture at Rice University as part of his second transcontinental lecture tour in America. And this evoked considerable interest in his literary and other works across the United States,” he said.
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Feb. 10, 2021 This Day in Jewish History , about Boris Pasternak, who won Nobel for Dr. Zhivago and irked Moscow, was originally published Feb. 10, 2016
February 10, 1890, is the birthdate of Boris Pasternak, the Russian poet, novelist and translator who won the Nobel Prize – and infuriated the Soviet regime – for his 1957 novel “Dr. Zhivago.” The book, although not concerned with Jewish themes in a major way, angered many Jews, including Israel’s prime minister, who described it as “one of the most despicable books about Jews ever written by a man of Jewish origin.”
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born in Moscow. His father, Leonid Pasternak, who claimed descent from the 15th-century Portuguese-Jewish banker and philosopher Isaac Abarbanel, was a successful painter and art professor. Boris’ mother, the former Rosa Kaufman, the daughter of an Odessa industrialist, was herself a concert pianist.