Prague Journal

Friday, April 1, 2005.

I taught two classes for Martin at VŠE today. The first was a “lecture,” the second a “seminar.” Both were for the same students in the same room, but the seminar was a more interactive case discussion. Martin was particularly interested to see how I would teach the case, of course, and I was interested in how well the case would work, since this is the first time it will have been used. They were given the case in Czech, the version that will appear in Martin’s Entrepreneurship book. The students were quite participative in both sessions, with few struggles with English.
Services at Bejt Praha were a bit unusual this evening, since Peter Gyori was in Bratislava. Murray Greenfield conducted the service and Howard Golden discussed the parsha. Murray is a Jewish American who now lives in Tel Aviv. After World War II, he moved to Israel, where he met his future wife Hana, a Jewish Holocaust-survivor from the Czech town of Kolin. Apparently, Murray and Hana have been in Prague many times, but I had not met him before. Helen and Bonnie were also at services this evening – we hadn’t seen them in quite awhile – but Ivo and Yehudes were not. Ivo is leaving for Israel this weekend, so we were particularly sad not to see him before he leaves; Yehudes is running the 1/2 marathon tomorrow.
Rick and I went to a small, local restaurant for dinner with Howard, and then went to his flat to see the new stone elephant that he and Marketa had gotten in South Africa. The statue weighs over 100 pounds, so the packaging and transport from South Africa took awhile (and, as you can imagine, was very costly). But the elegant elephant now adorns their bathroom.

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