My dear friend Selma Steinerová (27. 11. 1925 – 28. 8. 2010), who passed away last Saturday, will be fondly remembered by scores of locals as well as those who visited Bratislava since the 1990s. They will remember her smiling, advising and sometimes admonishing her visitors (never mere customers) in the revived Antikvariát Steiner in Ventúrska Street, the last station in her long and thorny journey through life. This sunny period was preceded by years of struggle and suffering.  Yet in 1925 it seemed that she was born under a lucky star, into an affluent, harmonious, educated and genuinely religious […]

Keď sa moja dávna a verná priateľka Selma Steinerová (1925 – 28. 8. 2010) minulú sobotu ráno už nezobudila, zanechala za sebou krásnu spomienku: množstvo Bratislavčanov aj ľudia, ktorí sa tu od 90. rokov niekedy ocitli, ju v duchu videli znova pred sebou. Spomínali na ňu, ako sa usmieva, radí, občas aj napomína svojich návštevníkov (teda zákazníkov) v obnovenom “steinerovskom” antikvariáte na Ventúrskej ulici. Doviedla ju sem dlhá a ozaj tŕnistá cesta, tento slnečný záver života si vybojovala a vopred odtrpela. Vojnu prežila ako dieťa Pritom sa v roku 1925 zdalo, že sa narodila pod šťastnou hviezdou, do zámožnej, harmonicky […]