Dr Kalmi Baruh

Abstract

Dr Kalmi Baruh bio je napredni prosvetni radnik, književni kritičar, učeni filolog i hispanolog iz Sarajeva. Pripadao je drugoj generaciji Sefarda koja se školovala u evropskim školama. Ta generacija, kao i prethodna, učila je sa ozbiljnošću i gotovo fiziološkom glađu za učenjem koja je tako svojstvena mladim ljudima iz zaostalih sredina koji prvi put dođu u dodir sa civilizacijom koja je mnogo razvijenija od njihove. Težilo se i tome da se kulturni lik bosanskog Sefarda saobrazi novoj društvenoj stvarnosti i bar donekle približi evropskom standardu. U ovom naumu se uspelo, pri čemu se, u prvom redu, treba zahvaliti pregaocima među kojima Kalmiju Baruhu svakako pripada istaknuto mesto.

Dr Kalmi Baruh was an advanced education worker, literary critic, learned philologist and Hispanologist from Sarajevo. Kalmi Baruch belonged to the second generation of Sephardic who was educated in European schools. That generation, as the previous one, taught with seriousness and almost physiological hunger for cognition that is so characteristic of young people from primitive environments who for the first time come into contact with a civilization far more developed than theirs. The aim of the Bosnian Sephardic cultural figure was to strive for a new social reality and at least somewhat approximate to the European standard. This plan succeeded in giving thanks in the first place to the aprons, among whom Kalmi Baruch certainly belongs to a prominent place.