4th. BERLIN BLOOM'S-DAY
Haaretz - Israel-News - 17.06.04

Typical excessiveness

Bloomsday will be celebrated in Sydney and Melbourne by eating grilled kidneys and drinking beer and reading from the text.
It turns out that the city of Sydney has taken Bloomsday to its heart, and with typical Irish excessiveness, the centennial
is to be celebrated there for four days and will even include an exhibition of "7 Eccles Street," where "Poldy" and Molly Bloom lived.

In Melbourne, Prof. John Gatt-Rutter of the department of Italian studies at La Trobe University and the biographer of the great
Italian writer Italo Svevo will lecture on the topic of "Who was Leopold Bloom?"

Gatt-Rutter believes, of course, that Bloom was based on the character of Svevo, the Jewish writer from the Italian city of Trieste,
with whom Joyce was acquainted during his stay there.

In Canada, too, Bloomsday will be celebrated, and on June 16, 18 and 19, Berlin will celebrate Bloomsday at Cafe Tacheles on
Oranienberger Strasse, where the splendidly renovated synagogue is located that now serves as a Jewish museum. The street, which was
once Jews' Street, is today the heart of Berlin's night life, with cafes, prostitutes, restaurants, nightclubs and perhaps brothels as
well. At this cafe there will be a literary party with Guinness stout, can-can dancers and an Irish monk, as well as a performance by a
troupe of actors of the Circe episode of Bloom's visit to Bella's brothel.

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