Fraternity-Testvériség, 1964 (42. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1964-12-01 / 12. szám
FRATERNITY 7 walls to enclose the expansion of the city northward, and many authorities regard this as the “second wall” of the Josephus narrative. Herod the Great, son of Antipater, with two Roman legions, captured the city in 37 B. C. and soon after had the old Temple of Zerubbabel taken down and began building the great new Temple which Jesus knew. Of this beautiful building Jesus spoke when He told the disciples, “There shall not be left one stone upon another.” Actually, literally and terribly that prophecy was fulfilled less than forty years later. In A. D. 70, after a six-month siege led by the young general Titus, attended by such horrors of famine, pestilence and bloodshed as makes the heart sick to read about, the city and Temple were destroyed. Those beautiful stones were dumped into the ravines on either side. The entire population was wiped out or carried away into slavery. For sixty years there was no city there, no buildings, no people, until Hadrian began to build a new city on the ruins of the old, calling it Aelia Capitolina, and erected a pagan temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. If all of the stones of all of the walls of Jerusalem through the past three thousand years could cry out, what a story they could tell, a tragic history of this place which has always been “A Walled City”. OUR MEMBER RECEIVES PH. D. DEGREE AT N. Y. U. Andrew B. Urbansky, of 143 New Canaan Ave., Bridgeport, Conn., member of the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, recently received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from New York University. Twelfth century Europe and the revival of Byzantine power under the Comnenian emperors form the background of his doctoral dissertation which deals with the Balkan relations of Byzantium during the period of Comneni. Dr. Urbansky came to this country 14 years ago from his native Hungary. During his earlier academic training abroad, he attended the Universities of Budapest, Vienna, Rome and Dijon. He received the degree of Doctor Iuris from Budapest and holds the degree of Master of Arts in history from New York University. Dr. Urbansky is currently teaching medieval history and Russian history at the University of Bridgeport. In addition to his scholastic achievements, Dr. Urbansky is known for his talent as an accomplished violinist, having been a member of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra for several years. He has also given of his musical talent to his church, The Hungarian Reformed Church, where he has performed on many occasions. We, here in the Federation’s Home Office, are proud to receive such gratifying news about one of our younger generation members and are proud of the fact that another Hungarian name has been brought into prominence among the historians in America. We would certainly like to read his dissertation and possibly bring excerpts from it to our readers. Congratulations, Dr. Urbansky!
