Roberta Seret's Blog, page 9
September 24, 2020
NEWS FROM TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY
“HENRY JACOBER: THE SAINT WHO SOLD SOULS”
Romania’s General Marcu, a high-ranking member of Romania’s secret service, the Securitate, was the Communists’ operative to price and collect money for selling Romanian Jews to emigrate to Israel.
After World War ll, he began the sale. By the end of the 1940’s, Israel was supplying the Romanian oil industry with oil drills in exchange for thousands of exit visas.
Henry Jacober, a Jewish businessman based in London and working with the Mossad, continued the “business deals” in the 1950’s and 1960’s with dictator, Gheorghiu-Dej. Jaober began his negotiations not with supplying oil equipment, but by building for the dictator, a chicken farm, if the Romanian government would allow 400 Jewish prisoners and their families to leave for Israel. Jacober understood that the Romanian government liked chickens more than Jews.
In 1965, when Gheorghiu-Dej died and Ceausescu came into power, Romania owned thousands of chicken, pig, turkey and sheep farms with slaughterhouses, storehouses, packaging plants and fleets of Mercedes trucks and cars to transport the meat. Everything paid for by Henry Jacober on behalf of the Israeli government and the United Jewish Appeal.
When Ceausescu learned about these transactions, he was furious. Not because he was losing his Jews, but that the deals were just bringing in chickens and pigs. He wanted CASH, cold dollars, even gold. And so, the Israeli government with Henry Jacober as middleman, paid the Romanian government for thousands of more visas to Israel, between $2,000 and $25,000 per Jew depending on their age, education and importance. Under Jacober’s dealings, more than 230,000 Romanian Jews left the country. From 1965 to 1989, Ceausescu received more than a hundred million dollars in cash for these transactions, as well as abandoned apartments with antique furniture, art and vacated jobs from the Jews who left the country.
But the trunk-loads of cash were not enough for Comrade Ceausescu. The communist leader wanted machine guns, weapons, ammunitions, and war tanks. And when Ceausescu received these, he copied them and made dozens more, selling them to his friends and America’s enemies: Gaddafi and Arafat. And who knows who else?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ai59...
Romania’s General Marcu, a high-ranking member of Romania’s secret service, the Securitate, was the Communists’ operative to price and collect money for selling Romanian Jews to emigrate to Israel.
After World War ll, he began the sale. By the end of the 1940’s, Israel was supplying the Romanian oil industry with oil drills in exchange for thousands of exit visas.
Henry Jacober, a Jewish businessman based in London and working with the Mossad, continued the “business deals” in the 1950’s and 1960’s with dictator, Gheorghiu-Dej. Jaober began his negotiations not with supplying oil equipment, but by building for the dictator, a chicken farm, if the Romanian government would allow 400 Jewish prisoners and their families to leave for Israel. Jacober understood that the Romanian government liked chickens more than Jews.
In 1965, when Gheorghiu-Dej died and Ceausescu came into power, Romania owned thousands of chicken, pig, turkey and sheep farms with slaughterhouses, storehouses, packaging plants and fleets of Mercedes trucks and cars to transport the meat. Everything paid for by Henry Jacober on behalf of the Israeli government and the United Jewish Appeal.
When Ceausescu learned about these transactions, he was furious. Not because he was losing his Jews, but that the deals were just bringing in chickens and pigs. He wanted CASH, cold dollars, even gold. And so, the Israeli government with Henry Jacober as middleman, paid the Romanian government for thousands of more visas to Israel, between $2,000 and $25,000 per Jew depending on their age, education and importance. Under Jacober’s dealings, more than 230,000 Romanian Jews left the country. From 1965 to 1989, Ceausescu received more than a hundred million dollars in cash for these transactions, as well as abandoned apartments with antique furniture, art and vacated jobs from the Jews who left the country.
But the trunk-loads of cash were not enough for Comrade Ceausescu. The communist leader wanted machine guns, weapons, ammunitions, and war tanks. And when Ceausescu received these, he copied them and made dozens more, selling them to his friends and America’s enemies: Gaddafi and Arafat. And who knows who else?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ai59...
September 16, 2020
PRESS RELEASE Transylvanian Trilogy: by Roberta Seret, The Gift of Diamonds, Love Odyssey and Treasure Hunt. (Wayzgoose Press, Berkeley, Ca., Pub Date: February, March, April 2021)
The Gift of Diamonds-
Introduces Mica at seventeen-years-old, when her parents are plotting to bring down Ceausescu as he comes to power. They are arrested and she realizes she will be next. In the middle of the night, she escapes Transylvania on her bicycle. But she is not alone - she has taken her father’s colored diamonds that were hidden in their basement. Her only fear is that she remembers he had told her, they come from Auschwitz and they may be cursed. The Gift of Diamonds reveals hidden secrets of how Fascism led to Communism which began the seeds of modern-day Terrorism.
Love Odyssey-
Narrates the story of Anca, a young doctor working in the Transylvanian countryside during a typhus epidemic. She has special medicines and antibiotics, not available in communist Romania. But she is giving them to non-communists and gypsies. The dictatorial regime is not happy. Her doctor husband fears his pregnant wife will be arrested and arranges her escape. Or is it to get rid of her while he becomes Ceausescu’s personal doctor to bring down communism and become the leader of the Revolution? Nineteen years later, Anca returns to Transylvania to save the man who wronged her. She could never stop loving him.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mfCQ...
Introduces Mica at seventeen-years-old, when her parents are plotting to bring down Ceausescu as he comes to power. They are arrested and she realizes she will be next. In the middle of the night, she escapes Transylvania on her bicycle. But she is not alone - she has taken her father’s colored diamonds that were hidden in their basement. Her only fear is that she remembers he had told her, they come from Auschwitz and they may be cursed. The Gift of Diamonds reveals hidden secrets of how Fascism led to Communism which began the seeds of modern-day Terrorism.
Love Odyssey-
Narrates the story of Anca, a young doctor working in the Transylvanian countryside during a typhus epidemic. She has special medicines and antibiotics, not available in communist Romania. But she is giving them to non-communists and gypsies. The dictatorial regime is not happy. Her doctor husband fears his pregnant wife will be arrested and arranges her escape. Or is it to get rid of her while he becomes Ceausescu’s personal doctor to bring down communism and become the leader of the Revolution? Nineteen years later, Anca returns to Transylvania to save the man who wronged her. She could never stop loving him.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mfCQ...
September 8, 2020
PRESS RELEASE for Roberta Seret
Transylvanian Trilogy: by Roberta Seret, The Gift of Diamonds, Love Odyssey and Treasure Hunt. (Wayzgoose Press, Berkeley, Ca., Pub Date: February, March, April 2021)
The Gift of Diamonds -
Introduces Mica at seventeen-years-old, when her parents are plotting to bring down Ceausescu as he comes to power. They are arrested and she realizes she will be next. In the middle of the night, she escapes Transylvania on her bicycle. But she is not alone - she has taken her father’s colored diamonds that were hidden in their basement. Her only fear is that she remembers he had told her, they come from Auschwitz and they may be cursed. The Gift of Diamonds reveals hidden secrets of how Fascism led to Communism which began the seeds of modern-day Terrorism.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KIYI...
The Gift of Diamonds -
Introduces Mica at seventeen-years-old, when her parents are plotting to bring down Ceausescu as he comes to power. They are arrested and she realizes she will be next. In the middle of the night, she escapes Transylvania on her bicycle. But she is not alone - she has taken her father’s colored diamonds that were hidden in their basement. Her only fear is that she remembers he had told her, they come from Auschwitz and they may be cursed. The Gift of Diamonds reveals hidden secrets of how Fascism led to Communism which began the seeds of modern-day Terrorism.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KIYI...
September 2, 2020
Press Release
PRESS RELEASE
Transylvanian Trilogy: by Roberta Seret, The Gift of Diamonds, Love Odyssey and Treasure Hunt. (Wayzgoose Press, Berkeley, Ca., Pub Date: February, March, April 2021)
TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY recreates a world of secrets where political truths are presented by mixing real people with fictional characters. The facts are heightened by fiction and the fiction is electrified with facts. It is a different voice, a hybrid form of storytelling, where current events are presented in a visual canvas within a novel. TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY takes the reader into a kaleidoscope of exotic colors set in Romania, Turkey and Iran, where political intrigues are little known and are waiting to be discovered.
All three novels of the Trilogy, Treasure Hunt, Love Odyssey and The Gift of Diamonds, can be read independently or interchanged. The main characters are Mica, Anca, Marina, and Cristina, four friends since their teenaged days in Transylvania, who were known as the Four Musketeers, Poets of their Lives.
As they recreate their lives, their stories interweave with fact and fiction to recreate political truths that have never been exposed before, especially in a novel.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11bsV...
Transylvanian Trilogy: by Roberta Seret, The Gift of Diamonds, Love Odyssey and Treasure Hunt. (Wayzgoose Press, Berkeley, Ca., Pub Date: February, March, April 2021)
TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY recreates a world of secrets where political truths are presented by mixing real people with fictional characters. The facts are heightened by fiction and the fiction is electrified with facts. It is a different voice, a hybrid form of storytelling, where current events are presented in a visual canvas within a novel. TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY takes the reader into a kaleidoscope of exotic colors set in Romania, Turkey and Iran, where political intrigues are little known and are waiting to be discovered.
All three novels of the Trilogy, Treasure Hunt, Love Odyssey and The Gift of Diamonds, can be read independently or interchanged. The main characters are Mica, Anca, Marina, and Cristina, four friends since their teenaged days in Transylvania, who were known as the Four Musketeers, Poets of their Lives.
As they recreate their lives, their stories interweave with fact and fiction to recreate political truths that have never been exposed before, especially in a novel.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11bsV...
August 25, 2020
COMING IN FEBRUARY, TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by ROBERTA SERET (Wayzgoose Press)
What is the Book about?
TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY takes the reader into a kaleidoscope of exotic colors set in Romania, Turkey and Iran, where political intrigues are little known and are waiting to be discovered.
TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY recreates a world of secrets that are presented by mixing real people with fictional characters. The facts are heightened by fiction and the fiction is electrified with facts. It is a different voice, another narrative style where current events are presented in a visual canvas within a novel
All three books of the Trilogy, Treasure Hunt, Love Odyssey and The Gift of Diamonds, can be read independently or interchanged. The main characters are Marina, Cristina, Anca and Mica, four friends since their teenaged days in Transylvania, who were known as the Four Musketeers, Poets of their Lives.
As they recreate their lives, their stories interweave and fact and fiction blend to recreate political truths that have never been exposed before, especially in a novel.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/113PS...
TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY takes the reader into a kaleidoscope of exotic colors set in Romania, Turkey and Iran, where political intrigues are little known and are waiting to be discovered.
TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY recreates a world of secrets that are presented by mixing real people with fictional characters. The facts are heightened by fiction and the fiction is electrified with facts. It is a different voice, another narrative style where current events are presented in a visual canvas within a novel
All three books of the Trilogy, Treasure Hunt, Love Odyssey and The Gift of Diamonds, can be read independently or interchanged. The main characters are Marina, Cristina, Anca and Mica, four friends since their teenaged days in Transylvania, who were known as the Four Musketeers, Poets of their Lives.
As they recreate their lives, their stories interweave and fact and fiction blend to recreate political truths that have never been exposed before, especially in a novel.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/113PS...
August 18, 2020
Upcoming Three Books Series Review by Publishers
Company News
(Langtons International Agency)
Congratulations To Our Authors
Roberta Seret's historical fiction trilogy has been bought by Wayzgoose Press. Congratulations, Roberta. Love Odyssey is the first novel of a 3-book series and is the compelling story of love and forgiveness in war-torn Romania. Dr. Roberta Seret is Director of Professional English at the United Nations where she teaches advanced English and film to diplomats.
https://mailchi.mp/ee5cbaeb6006/langt...
(Langtons International Agency)
Congratulations To Our Authors
Roberta Seret's historical fiction trilogy has been bought by Wayzgoose Press. Congratulations, Roberta. Love Odyssey is the first novel of a 3-book series and is the compelling story of love and forgiveness in war-torn Romania. Dr. Roberta Seret is Director of Professional English at the United Nations where she teaches advanced English and film to diplomats.
https://mailchi.mp/ee5cbaeb6006/langt...
August 12, 2020
WORLD AFFAIRS IN FOREIGN FILMS
THE SPECIFIC GOALS ARE:
1.
Global Education: Prepares students to become global citizens and understand what that means by using film that reflects current events.
2. General culture: Offers content about different religions, philosophies, customs, laws, governments, art, literature, music, foreign languages, etc.
3. How to think and learn: Gives stepping-stones to the process of learning through fact collecting processes that encourages cogent reasoning skills and serves as a model for future learning.
4. Promotes Diversity: Foreign film has the ability to show diversity in a subtle way on the screen: the diversity of protagonists, societies and ideas.
1.
Global Education: Prepares students to become global citizens and understand what that means by using film that reflects current events.2. General culture: Offers content about different religions, philosophies, customs, laws, governments, art, literature, music, foreign languages, etc.
3. How to think and learn: Gives stepping-stones to the process of learning through fact collecting processes that encourages cogent reasoning skills and serves as a model for future learning.
4. Promotes Diversity: Foreign film has the ability to show diversity in a subtle way on the screen: the diversity of protagonists, societies and ideas.
July 31, 2020
WORLD AFFAIRS IN FOREIGN FILMS
Our Curriculum, World Affairs in Foreign Films, 2nd edition for High School, offers teachers and students the opportunity to experience foreign cultures through the power of film. . The overall mission of our pedagogy is to use film as a catapult to better understand international events and diversity of people around the world.
. Students are visual learners and feel comfortable in front of the screen.
Seeing is believing, and a film can transport viewers to a foreign country and culture as it is today.
. We highlight that the visual text, film, is narrative and parallels literature so students can “read” the film, ask questions, research and investigate diverse arguments, analyze and synthesize a problem, come to conclusions, and then share and communicate ideas.
. Film increases retention and memory, especially when it is linked to written literature, as our textbook, World Affairs in Foreign Films for High School.
. Students in High School are ready to be introduced to Global themes. They have time in their curriculum for this content, and they are of the age to make educated links to the real world.
