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adam_text | PASQYRA
ELENDES
PARATHËNIE
...........................................................................7
PJESAEPARË
Përtretja
..............,.................■................................................23
Rrëfimet autobiografike
......................................................37
Fan Noli
në
Amerike
..........................................................50
Noli dhe Dielli
.................................................................56
Vatra
e shqiptarëve të Amerikës dhe
Noli......................
63
Themelimi
і
Kishës Autoqefale Ortodokse Shqiptare
.....71
Lărgimi
dhe kthimi në Amerikë
......................................... 80
PJESAEDYTË
Fan Noli
dhe
Faik Konica...................................................85
Noli
kundër Zogut dhe aludimet për Konicën
............92
Ca njerëz të lodhur, ca të tjerë të trashë
.....................95
Lista duhet
plotësuar
......................................................97
DakoII
............................................................................98
Karriera
politike dhe diplomatike
....................................107
Fan Noli si
orator
..............................................................126
Publicistika
e Nolit
...........................................................135
Letërkëmbimi
....................................................................140
Fan Noli dhe
Norbert
Jokli
..............................................145
Noli dhe
Miss Edith Durhami.........................................149
Avni Spahiu
Noli
-
jeta në Amerikë
PJESAETRETË
Koleksioni fonografik: Ligjërimi Nolian
.........................153
Izraelite dhe Filistine
.....................................................167
Historia
e
Skënderbeut
..................................................172
Bethoveni
dhe Revolucioni Frëng
................................181
Noli si poet
dhe Albumi
................................................189
Noli si
përkthyes letrar
.....................................................192
Fan Noli dhe
vepra
e Shekspirit
.......................................201
Othelloja
në gjuhën shqipe
...........................................205
Noli dhe Don Kishoti
...................................................208
Librai
fetarë në shqip
e anglisht
.......................................211
Noli si njeri kontradiktor
.................................................220
Një jetë
e
tërë në mërgim:
Vitet
e
fundit
........................226
Noli dhe
bashkëkohësit....................................................
239
Konklúzión
........................................................................254
Summary
...........................................................................259
Kronologji biografike
e Fan
Nolit-
1882-1965..............273
Kronologji
e shqiptarëve të Amerikës
..............................278
Burimetdhe
literatura......................................................
285
Avni
Spahiu
___________
Noli- jeta
në
Amerike
KONKLÚZIÓN
Pas përzgjedhjes dhe paraqitjes se fakteve dhe ideve,
e
njëherazi edhe të mbarështrimit, shqyrtimit analizues dhe
sistemit të
tyre,
arritëm të konstatojmë se veprimtaria
e
Nolit
ne SHBA përbën një ndër
periudhat tejet
të rëndësishme të jetës
dhe të veprës se
tij.
Ai krijoi si
poet, dramaturg, përkthyes,
prozator, diplomat, publicist,
kritik
letrar
e muzikor,
historian,
prift reformator,
kompozitor
dhe gojëtar, duke ushtruar një
ndikim të dukshëm si në gjuhësi, letërsi dhe kulturë, ashtu edhe
në mendimin demokratikkombëtar dhe shoqëror. Si personalitet
і
artit,
і
kulturës,
і
fesë dhe
і
diturisë,
Noli
u
bë një ndërlidhës
і
denjë
і
Rilindjes sonë Kombëtare me epokën tonë,
і
antikes
me
modernen,
і
traditës me novatoren,
i vieres
estetike dhe etike, i
universales
me vlerat
kombëtare.
Si i tille,
ai u
shndërrua në një
nga
ata
krijues, veprat e shquara të të cilit janë jo vetëm pjesë e
thesarit tonë kombëtar, por edhe pjesë përbërëse e kulturës së
përbotshme. Emri
і
Theofan
Stilian Nolit është
і
lidhur
ngushtë
me historinë dhe
kulturen shqiptare
të shekullit njëzet.
Ai lindi,
jetoi dhe vdiq
larg
atdheut. Por, që nga mërgimi ai punoi vetëm
për Shqipërinë, ai krijoi gjëra madhështore që e lartësuan
dinjitetin e shqiptarit,
kurse
në veprimtarinë e papushuar të
përditshme iu përkushtua pavarësisë dhe konsolidimit të shtetit
shqiptar dhe demokratizimit të jetës shqiptare.
Si njeri që
pati
një jetë relativisht të gjatë (arriti moshën
85-
vjeçare),
jeta
e tij e begatë, tronditëse dhe me përvojë të thellë,
і
-j..
Avni
Spahiu
______________
___________
Noli- jeta
në
Amerike
dha mundësi, nga një anë që të vihej në shërbimin e popullit të
vet të përvuajtur, e nga
ana
tjetër,
i takoi
të bëhej edhe dëshmitar
і
kulminacionit të Rilindjes Kombëtare shqiptare,
i shpalljes
së
pavarësisë,
і
Luftërave Ballkanike,
і
paragjykimeve dhe
і
padrejtësive
politike
dhe
diplomatike,
i dy
Luftërave Botërore,
і
fillimit
të Luftës së Ftohtë,
і
shpartallim.it
të fashizmit dhe
nazizmit,
і
demaskimit të komunizmit,
і
luftës së Koresë dhe
і
konsolidimit të demokracisë
amerikáne.
Që nga rinia, atij
i ka
takuar të njohë një pjesë të madhe të Evropës, të Azisë, të Afrikës
dhe, në
fund,
të Amerikës,
ku i
mbaroi udhëtimet e tij
pesëdhjetëvjeçare.
Noli
u
dërgua në
Amerike nga patriote
dhe veprimtarë të
Rilindjes së vonë Kombëtare për organizimin e lëvizjes
kombëtare të shqiptarëve në Amerikë. Atje, brenda një kohe të
shkurtër
Noli
krijoi shoqërinë Besa-besë , që më pas
u
shkri
në federatën
Vatra ,
si dhe gazetën Dielli . Në Amerikë ai
u
detyrua të bëjë një punë të rëndë që të siguronte jetesën. Nga
gjithë veprimtaritë e kësaj periudhe të jetës
politike
të Nolit,
më e rëndësishmja është shkëputja e kishës ortodokse shqiptare
dhe
lufta
kundër
propagandes
shoviniste greke. Për këtë qëllim
më
1908
ai
u
dorëzua prift dhe, duke vazhduar traditën e nisur
nga Kristoforidhi, përktheu shumë
libra
të ndryshëm të kishës
në gjuhën shqipe.
Bir
fshatari,
і
etshëm për arsim dhe
dituri,
porsa arriti në SHBA
і
vazhdoi studimet në moshën
30-vjeçare,
u
diplomua në muzikë në
Konservatorium,
në moshën
50-
vjeçare
dhe doktoroi në moshën
63-vjeçare me
tezën mbi
Skënderbeun.
Fan Noli
përdori kishën si tribune për forcimin
e shqiptarizmit. Përkrahës
і
luftës për
çlirim
nga sundimi
osman
(1910-1912),
pas shpalljes së Pavarësisë,
u
vu në shërbim të
qeverisë kombëtare të Vlorës. Pikëpamjet mbi organizimin e
shtetit,
politiken
e brendshme e të jashtme,
і
shtjelloi në shkrime
e fjalime në
vitet
1921-1924.
Luftoi që shteti të
vinte
në jetë
Avni
Spahiu
„r-
Noli
-
jeta në Amerikë
parimét
e
demokracisë së përparuar.
Në
krye
të qeverisë,
Fan Noli
і
shpalli këto
paríme demokratike,
por ai dhe bashkëpunëtorët e
tij nuk
treguan
vendosmërinë e
duhur për
ťi zbatuar
deri
në
fund.
Ai
shprehu
aspiratën e shqiptarëve për
liri
dhe për shoqëri
demokratike, për drej tësi e përparim. Idetë noliane
u
zhvilluan e
u
poqën dhe arritën
kulme
të mendimit shqiptar. Ndonëse
і
mërguar, ai ishte për shumë kohë
tribun i
demokracisë shqiptare.
Ai prodhoi një
varg
krijimesh
me nivel
të lartë artistik, ku rrihen
disa nga
problemet
kryesore të kohës. Kontributi më
і
madh
і
Fan Nolit në letërsinë shqipe ishin shqipërimet e tij, por edhe
puna
e tij si stilist po edhe si poet
і
rebelimit dhe
i ndryshimit.
Bashkë me Faik Konicën,
Noli mund
të konsiderohet
si stilisti
më
і
madh në gjuhën shqipe. Njohja e shumë gjuhëve të
rëndësishme botërore
і
bëri atij të
mundur
të zhvillonte shqipen
në një gjuhë të përpunuar dhe të rrjedhshme, në një gjuhë me
potencial
të madh letrar dhe krijues. Ndonëse ai shkroi pak në
aspektin
krijues letrar,
Fan Noli
megjithatë mbetet një nga viganët
e letërsisë shqipe. Ai ishte ndër mjeshtrit e poezisë shqiptare,
kurse
lirikat e tij ngërthejnë përgjithësime të rëndësishme artistike dhe
shquhen nga fuqia e shprehjeve
poetike
emociónale.
Fan Noli
u
kushtoi vëmendje të
posaçme
edhe studimeve
historike.
Në këtë fushë
interesimi
і
tij
u
përqendrua rreth jetës
dhe bëmave të Gjergj Kastriotit Skënderbeut. Monografitë
Historia
e Skënderbeut,
botimi
і
dytë
і
plotësuar
dhe
і
ripunuar
doli
më
1947,
dhe
Historia
e
Skënderbeut
(1949)
në gjuhën
angleze, shënojnë një etapë më të lartë në studimet për
heroin
kombëtar.
Fan Noli
u
mor edhe
me muzikologji. Monografía
e
tij,
Bethoveni dhe Revolucioni
Frëng
(1947)
në gjuhën
angleze
u
çmua lart nga
specialiste dhe
personalitete të shquara evropiane
të kohës. Ai është
autor
edhe
і
një vargu kompozimesh muzikore,
nga të cilat vlen të përmendet një
rapsodi
për Skënderbeun, etj.
Fan Noli
la përkthime mjeshtërore të disa veprave të shkrimtarëve
-_.
Avni
Spahiu
Noli-
jeta në Amerikë
të shquar botërorë,
si
Shekspiri,
Ibseni,
Servantesi, Khajami,
etj. Vepra
e tij
poetike, publicistike dhe
përkthimet luajtën rol të
rëndësishëm për formimin shpirtëror të intelektualëve
demokrate
të viteve njëzet dhe e ruajnë edhe
sot
vieren e
tyre.
Nuk ka pikë dyshimi
se Noli,
qoftë si shqipërues dhe poet,
qoftë si themelues
і
kishës ortodokse shqiptare dhe publicist e
historian,
ka sjellë nxitje,
ide,
pikëpamje,
koncepte, tendenca
dhe lëvizje të
reja,
si për letërsinë dhe diturinë shqiptare, ashtu
edhe për ndërgjegjësimin kulturor, civilizues dhe kombëtar të
shqiptarëve. Njëherazi, ai ka pasuruar
kombin shqiptar
me
frymëzime,
aspirata,
ideale dhe
sisteme
vlerash që
ende
nuk ishin
të pranishme në mjediset shqiptare. Me një fjalë,
dalja
e tij në
skenën kombëtare dhe
historike,
herë si luftëtar për zgjimin,
bashkimin dhe vëllazërinë kombëtare, herë si emancipues
kulturor dhe herë si prijatar
і
lirisë dhe
і
pavarësisë kombëtare,
ka shënuar një lloj kthese të vërtetë në zhvillimin e mendimit
demokratik shqiptar.
Në këtë
punim
është bërë përpjekje për të hedhur dritë
përgjithësisht mbi personalitetin e tij poliedrik, duke e zbuluar
atë si udhëheqës të lëvizjes kombëtare e demokratike,
klerik
dhe shtetar,
artist dhe
dijetar, i
cili
jetoi e veproi në SHBA.
Përmes mendimeve të bashkëkohësve të tij, është bërë edhe një
përshkrim
і
Nolit për
ta
njohur atë edhe si
njeri. Edhe pse
ai
jetoi gjatë dhe qe protagonist dhe pjesëmarrës në ngjarje që
vendosën fatin e Shqipërisë dhe të shoqërisë shqiptare, edhe
pse
bashkëpunoi duke
u
lidhur
me qindra njerëz në atdhe e në
diaspore,
kujtimet e njerëzve për të merren kryesisht me
rolet
që ai ka lozur, por vazhdojnë të mos shterin kundërthëniet e tij
si njeri. Në
fakt, się
del nga të gjithë
ata
që e kanë njohur njeriun
me personalitet
te Noli,
emri
і
tij vazhdon të jetë sfidues, ndonëse
ai vazhdon të jetë personifikim jo vetëm për atdhetarin dhe
demokratin,
jo vetëm për poetin dhe shkrimtarin, jo vetëm për
Avni Spahiu
„__
~
¿01
Noli
-
jeta në
Amerike
një nga etërit e qytetërimit shqiptar, por edhe për njeriun si njeri
dhe si një prej shëmbëlltyrave më të ndritura të botës shqiptare.
Për Nolin, ashtu sic ndodh me shumë njerëz të shquar, janë
krijuar
mite
dhe mitet e errësojnë të vërtetën. Vete ai është
shndërruar në
mit
dhe vazhdon të qëndrojë
i tille,
madje edhe
në përshkrimet që
i běhen
nga të tjerët dhe hije të së cilës gjenden
edhe në veprën dhe jetën e tij.
Figura
e tij duhet pare pa këto
hije të krijimit të mitit, duke e vënë atë në kontekstin e
përgjithshëm
social
e psikologjik. Përpjekjet për të mbledhur
kujtime nga bashkëkohësit që hedhin dritë mbi Nolin si njeri,
nuk kanë munguar.
Ato i
gjejmë në komunitetin shqiptar në
SHBA, ku studiues dhe njerëz të zellshëm, sado të pakte, kanë
kryer hulumtime, të cilat
і
kanë botuar dhe vazhdojnë t i botojnë,
ngaqë
figura
e Nolit vazhdon të jetë një gurrë e pashtershme
për studiues të fushave të ndryshme.
Avni
Spahiu
Noli- jeta
në
Amerike
SUMMARY
Essentially, the motivation for research on Theofan Stilian
Noli is multifaceted: his grandeur and multidimensional figure,
being an Albanian and American dignitary, an intellectual, author,
religious man, translator, historian, musician, poet, statesman,
and diplomat. He contributed to the Albanian-American
friendship and to the Albanian national cause, together with
another great man of letters,
Faik Konica.
Both of them left
behind a legacy of great works of culture, literature, history,
diplomacy and letters.
In working on this book I attempted to collect, systemize
and present the topics and problems dealing with Fan Noli, his
work and his time in the United States of America from
1906
to
1965.
I began with the time he first arrived to the Promised
Land and continued through to the last days of his life before
his passing away in March
1965
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I
dealt in particular with Noli s research work and his cultural
and publication activities in English. After confining my focus
to Noli s stay in Europe, I then continued with his second and
final trip to the USA in the capacity of the archbishop of Albanian
Orthodox Church in Boston, and the becoming of an
uncrowned leader of Albanian-American community.
The first part of the book includes a history and chronology
of Albanian immigration in America
-
settlement and adoption
Avni
Spahiu
„_„
Noli
-
jeta ne
Amerike
to the new life of the first Albanian arrivals in the new world
-
focus on the reasons and motivations for Noli s arrival to
America as a result of an overall patriotic activity by the late
representatives of the Albanian Awakening in the beginning of
the 20th century. In particular, Noli s humanitarian, cultural and
patriotic engagement, inspired and forged by the ideologists of
the National Awakening are described. The second part focused
on the political and diplomatic career of Noli; the third part
involves a continued creative activity by Noli as author, translator
of Shakespeare, Edgar
Alan Poe,
Cervantes, Hugo, etc.,
translation of religious books and psalms and other works by
him, which include both original and translated poems.
Led by scientific conviction and objectivity in observing and
discussing the activity and character of this notable Albanian of
the last century, and being convinced that Nolian studies have
not been concluded yet, I concentrated mainly on fifty years of
Noli s activities in the United States. Although the subject scope
seemed wide and unexhausted, it needed a sophisticated
concentration, rather than an extended generalization and
undetermined assessment of the past.
The result was a critical and analytical approach to Noli s
activities in the USA, including reasons why interest was taken
on him by historians, scholars, translators, literary critics,
diplomats, etc. The wide and diverse amount of studies dealing
with Theofan Stilian Noli remains a source of valuable
information for major and critical periods of Albanian national
history of modern times, and this book is an attempt at shedding
new light on the subject.
I found to be of particular interest the background of the
first Albanian arrivals in America, their organization,
.
f{. Avni
Spahiu
______________
______________
Noli-
jeta ne
Amerike
establishment
of first colonies and societies, and the arrival of
Fan Noli to this community. His arrival and his first activities at
the beginning of his career among Albanian-Americans marked
a particular date of importance in the development of Albanian
Diaspora in the States. Based not only on data from his
Autobiography but from other recollections of his contemporaries
and materials gathered in the United States, it has been made clear
that Noli, began as a journalist and over time he achieved growth
and success, including becoming: the editor for the
Kombi
newspaper in Boston, founder of the first societies of Albanian-
Americans, founder of the periodical Dielli , the first preacher
of an Albanian church, and a talented speaker in the meetings
held and organized by Albanian-Americans during
1910-11,12,
in support of galvanization of the Albanian cause. Later on,
working together with other Albanian-American community
notable names in Massachusetts, particularly with his life-long
companion Faik.
Konica,
Noli was enthusiastically involved in
developing his Pan-Albanian Society
Vatra.
This society played
an extraordinary role in the overall Albanian national movement,
and it assisted in Albania achieving its independence in
1912.
Noli gave an undeniable contribution to
Vatra
in its educational,
illuminating, publicizing and diplomatic efforts. It had turned,
for a certain period of time prior to the declaration of Albania s
independence, into a government in exile.
Vatra
also supported
the first Government of Ismail Qemali and that of the German
Prince
Wied
at a later stage during the Balkan wars and World
War One. It published a number of important books and articles
deploring the massacres, persecution and reprisals against
Albanians by the Greek, Serb and Montenegrin armies during
World War One.
Vatra
also renounced and condemned the
secret Treaty of London of
1915
regarding further partitioning
of Albania, doing what it could on the internationalization of
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the Albanian national issue. It sent its leader, Fan Noli to meet
US President Wilson and ask him for US support at the Peace
Conference in Paris
(1918)
to prevent Albania s
dismemberment, and to become the protectorate over Albania.
Vatra
also sent Fan Noli to the Lushnja Congress, to the Paris
Peace Conference, and to Geneva to represent Albania to the
League of Nations
(1921).
Noli was sent to represent Albanian-
Americans to the newly formed Albanian Parliament
(1921-24),
where he tried to introduce Albania of the 20 s to the ideas,
principles and concepts of American democracy. According to
Noli s deep convictions, American principles and values were
meant to save Albania considering the fact that Anglo-Saxon
culture would suit best to the puritan spirit of the Albanian race.
Finally, in June
1924
Vatra
gave to Albania the Prime Minister
of the Republic. In brief, Noli was sure that without
Vatra
there would be no Albania today. This part also includes the
history of Noli founding the Albanian Orthodox Church in
Boston
(1908)
as a response to the Greek anti-Albanian plots
and the Hellenizing attempts by the Greek Church. In a drive
to raise educational and national awareness among Albanian-
Americans, Noli translated into Albanian, almost at once, a
selected number of liturgical books for the church services.
Importantly, very often a mass held by Noli turned into a
nationalist propagandist movement aimed at friendship,
tolerance, brotherhood, and the eliciting of feelings of national
unity. Of particular weight were Noli s
1908
articles on future
emancipation of the Albanian people, published in
Kombi
and
other periodicals. Noli authentically and genuinely treats the
question of religion among Albanians. He complains that the
world refuses to recognize the tradition of Albanian religious
tolerance, reiterating time and again that religions represent an
obstacle to their unity and progress. Noli was aware of the fact
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that religions were a historical heritage left to Albanians. Albanian
National Revival representatives made attempts to either put
religion aside or they tried to forge a new faith that, according
to them, would unite Albanians. However, both the people and
religious leaders opposed such attempts. On his part, Noli was
convinced that Albanians needed no religious leaders, seeing
them as causing unnecessary religious and national divisions,
becoming blind instruments of anti-Albanian politics. Noli was
deeply convinced that what Albanians needed were true priests
and bishops, as well as imams and muftis; God-fearing and
ready to spread in zeal and justice God s commandments. He
pays great attention to the fact that religious leaders should be
servants to God and to Albanians as well; he realizes that they
must make it clear to the people that one may have a particular
religion inherited from his predecessors, but he may not choose
another ethnicity and fight against his own without staining his
forehead with of big seal of treason. Noli s message is that when
God sent down His prophets He did not send them to make
Albanians kill each other, but to live in friendship and love with
each other and live in happiness in peace and freedom. In the
conclusion of this part, the book describes several trips made by
Noli from America to Europe
(1911-1918),
going on various
missions relevant to the national cause, having been sent either
by
Vatra,
or the Albanian Government. Following the collapse
of his Republican Government by the end of
1924,
Noli was
trapped for
9
years as an immigrant in Europe, and in
1933
his
journeys outside America finally came to an end, and he returned
with mixed emotions, feeling the bitter despair of having to live
forever on a foreign soil.
Further on in the second part, relations between Noli and F.
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relations
with the famous Albanian scholar
N.
Jokl and Miss
Durham, a well-known friend of the Albanians. Here the
political career, journalistic work, speech making and
correspondence of Fan Noli are discussed. A considerable
number of facts, explanations and ideas on the relationships
between Noli and
Konica
have been brought forward. This
section includes conclusions on Konica s role and relevance for
the Albanian world of culture and literature, as well as his
friendship with Noli, their co-operation, polemics, and debates
involving the two most remarkable figures of the contemporary
Albanian culture. The reader is exposed to a presentation of the
chronology of co-operation between the two, starting with their
initial relationship in the beginning of the 20th when they were
involved in polemics. Their interactive relationship was from
time to time fierce, exaggerated and inciting, and it has presented
an interesting and extraordinary richness for the Albanian culture
in general, as they bear an insignia of a high level and beautiful
style, intellectual insight and a rare polemics vocabulary.
Both
Konica
and Noli remained close and inseparable friends
as they were joined by many ideas, points of view, qualities,
culture, aspirations and common values. Despite their polemics
they were able to preserve in their souls a deep respect for each
other, an intellectual tolerance and friendship, full of reverence
for each other. A brief description of Noli s friendship with the
well-known German-born Albanian scholar
Norbert
Jokl is also
provided. Jokl highly appreciated Noli s talent as a translator,
especially after reading his translation of Khayam s Rubaiyats.
Aware of Jokl s high culture, knowledge and authority in the
science of linguistics in general and Albanian studies in particular,
Noli wrote a letter to the German authorities in order to spare
the life of this great scholar of Albanian culture of Jewish origin
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Continuing on, the friendship between Noli and Miss Edith
Durham, a much-esteemed British author among Albanians, is
presented. In this part, particular attention has been paid to the
diplomatic activities of Fan Noli on his important missions to
the League of Nations, before and after Albania s membership.
Noli had manifested a great talent for diplomacy, especially on
the occasion of presentation of his memorandum of
unprecedented historical and diplomatic importance to the
Versailles Conference in
1918.
It should be pointed out that
this was one of the Albanian masterpieces of diplomatic
memorandum ever written. Noli also demonstrated his
diplomatic potential during WorldWar Two, collaborating with
Konica, Zog, Zavalani,
and others in protecting the rights of the
Albanian people to its subsistence and independence. In addition,
speaking of Noli as a speech-maker, it should be pointed out
that Noli s speech-making covered various topics over time, and
falls into three categories: patriotic, ecclesiastical, and political-
cultural. As the Albanian National Movement developed, Noli s
speech-making ability grew in its variety. Noli had a rare speech-
making ability, as he possessed the power of presentation,
unfolding of argument, eloquence, sweet voice, power of word
and fact, and an efficient way of reasoning of concept. He was
able to not only to grab the attention of the listener, but he
entirely captivate him. In the meantime, Noli s works as publicist
have turned out to be a chronicle of the Albanian political,
national and social life of the time. Noli s journalistic works
developed over a long span of time, and it may be divided into
four main periods; the same, as his correspondence with his
friends and various dignitaries.
The third
part,
containing
13
various chapters, is the most
extensive. It presents two groups of topics and the issues are
analyzed in detail. This contains Noli s contribution as a
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playwright, poet, religious man, historian, translator, artist and
scientist with a critical approach. This section throws light on
unknown facts from Noli s activities; analyzing Noli as a man
of contradiction, his character, education, outlook, principles,
stances, values, virtues, impressions, his communication skills,
his friends and well-wishers; Noli s relations with dignitaries
and ordinary folk, ideologies, and finally his relations with his
detractors and enemies, including opinions of some of Noli s
contemporaries.
Noli s first original work, Israelites and Philistines, a topic
borrowed from the Old Testament, points out an idea that
believing in truth and commitment toward a cause, one should
be ready to sacrifice at the altar of the fatherland. Samson has
been portrayed in this play as a superhuman figure who, on one
side, has no wish of using power or violence in spreading out
his truth, and on the other, to defend his truth and the sublime
ideal Samson is ready for any kind of sacrifice. Samson s drama
is a clear allusion to an approaching uprising by Albanians, while
the colossal figure of Samson not only represents the Albanian
hero and his philosophical dilemma, but also the author himself
Noli, had an affinity to identify himself with heroic figures, as
he had previously identified himself with Christ and Scanderbeg,
two of his lifetime revered figures. Many pay respect and
attention to Noli as a historian, particularly as author of the
History of Scanderbeg (George Kastrioti)
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King of Albania
(1921),
with which Noli reached his peak as a historian. But he
is also an artistic writer, as this historical work of his was also a
true artistic work and masterpiece of writing.
In writing his book, Fan Noli researched the earliest and
best books on Scanderbeg (Barleti, Biemm, Tivarius, G. Buzaka,
D. Frangu, etc), and in using his rich imagination, he embodied
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once again with the legendary and national figure of Scanderbeg.
In this way, Noli s work on Scanderbeg became a very popular
and widely read book, admired overwhelmingly by readers who
took pride with Noli s Scanderbeg s figure. This first work by
Noli on Scanderbeg had been written not only a historical book,
but also as a work written by a true fiction writer. In addition,
by passing of time, incited and enchanted by the great figure of
the national hero, Noli began his dedicated work of scholarly
research through archives and old sources in order to write yet
another study volume on Scanderbeg. Hence, in
1945
at the age
of
64,
his persistent and self-sacrificing work resulted in
defending his PhD thesis in English in Boston, entitled: George
Kastrioti
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Scanderbeg. This time Noli wrote based on primary
documents and most important studies on Scanderbeg that was
starting forth from the principle that every hero in history had
to pass through three stages
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glorification, denunciation and
réévaluation.
Noli not only distinguishes tradition from legend,
primary document from the secondary one, but he also presents
and unfolds arguments that contributed to the resistance and
successful battle waged by Scanderbeg against the invading
Ottomans. In Noli s assessment of Scanderbeg s resistance and
fighting, he points out that there are four views of particular
importance:
(1.)
that his war was a Christian crusade against
the Turks;
(2.)
that it was a long war of resistance against the
two greatest Sultans of Turkey;
(3.)
that it represents an
important chapter of the history of Balkans, and
(4.)
that it was
a war of classes of free Albanian peasantry against Turkish
feudalism on one hand and Venetian capitalism on the other.
Some of these viewpoints led T. Zavalani to describe Noli s book
as a work wearing Marxist ideas. In
1947
Noli published in
New York an improved and updated version of his
1921
History
of Scanderbeg
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King of Albania.
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Noli also published in English, an important study called
Beethoven and the French Revolution, bringing an excellent
portrayal of Beethoven as a revolutionary in his efforts to turn
his music into a powerful means of rising up the masses and
transforming the traditional society into a more humane one.
This scholarly book had been highly evaluated by famous
authors such as Bernard Shaw and Thomas Mann. Further,
details of Album
1
and
2
have been presented in the book with
chapters on Noli as a translator, not only of religious texts and
service books, but also his earlier and later translations done in
the USA. In the period between
1906
and
1918,
Noli translated
a total of
21
novels, short stories, fragments, poems, and plays
from
7
various languages and literatures. Among the authors he
translated were Heraclites, Molier, Shakespeare, V.
Irwin,
Ε. Α.
Poe,
Η.
W.
Longfellow, Gi
De Mopasan, Stendhal, R
Edges,
Tolstoy,
Björnson,
A, Pescev,
M.
Gorky, etc. His
second phase
of
translations
took
place
mainly in
Europe,
and in his third
phase, Noli appears with his Don Quixote of Cervantes and a
number of poems
-
true jewels of poetic art, published in his
Albums. Both in the first and other phases of his activity as
translator, Noli shows certain relevant motives for the
translations. Hence, it may be concluded that while the religious
texts were written by Fan Noli for church reasons and for reason
of individual and national dignity, some of his earlier translations
make one believe that the motive behind them was raising the
conscience for national feeling of freedom, resistance against
the occupation and in favor of independence, and we find such
as for example P. Edges story Two kinds of force , Gi
De
Mopasan story Two Friends , Stendhal s novel Vanina Vanini ,
etc. Another time, he switches the motive. By translating into
Albanian the poem Scanderbeg by the American poet
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Longfellow, Noli claims that absence of works in the Albanian
language had been compelling to him to set a popular library
in order to give my fellow compatriots some selected works
from world literature. Noli continues saying that Scanderbeg
by the American author is perhaps the most beautiful one ever
written about our national hero, and the American poet, he
says, has used all his skill in order to present the qualities and
virtues of the Albanian hero. Almost all of Noli s translations
have a motive behind them. This is also true for the translations
of Shakespeare s works; thus, by translating Othello he not
only wanted to enrich Albanian literature with one of the works
of the world-famous author, but he also wanted to pass a message
on ethical and philosophical experience to his Albanian readers.
Also, through the translation of Macbeth , Noli tried to
stigmatize and tarnish the usurpers and culprits of the throne.
By translating Julius Caesar he was referring to the adventure
of revolutionary liberators, both humane and inhumane, and
by translating Hamlet he brought forth sick ambition,
disloyalty, hypocrisy, crime, dilemma, faced by a disappointed
mind, injustice, and Hamlet s revenge. However, with the
translation of Khayam s Rubaiyats he not only brought to the
Albanian literature one of the pearls of world literature, but he
also raised up to the sky the freedom of thought of livelihood,
joy, life s pleasure, principle of optimism, noble aim of life, magic
power of love, the right to life s pleasures, expansion of living
horizon, and courage to cope with death. It is not strange,
therefore, that his translations were received with an unusually
positive evaluation by A. Xhuvani, who called it the most
beautiful and valued work done by Noli, an invaluable stone of
our literature. And, finally, with the translation of Cervantes
Don Quixote , Noli gave a powerful blow to the follies,
wrongdoings, and foolishness of outdated notables of modern
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times.
Identifying a literary and artistic work belonging to foreign
literature, of a different time and space, with the bitter reality of
his own time and country, Noli goes further in drawing a parallel
between the Spain of Don Quixote s time and Albanian of his
living time, equating Don Quixote and
Sancho Pancha
with the
beys and rascals of Albania, and their attempts to hinder the
surge of history. Here are some of Noli s thoughts on Don
Quixote: Don Quixote died the way he lived, as a medieval
knight who escaped in modern times. Will Albanians die in that
fashion too? Here is the tragedy of Albania with backward
Albanians.
One of the most striking and interesting topics on Noli s
contradictions is treated in the Chapter named Noli as a
contradictory man. This chapter offers a dense analytical and
critical observation on Noli s contradictions, inconsistencies and
antagonisms. Noli has most often been portrayed as a man full
of contradictions with internal conflicts of soul. He is often seen
as a person with inscrutable psychology, never calm, occasionally
isolated, sometimes in opposition to others and sometimes even
in disagreement with his own self. Noli is a genius of multiple
values who stands alone, cut off from his surroundings, pulled
apart from the mediocrity of masses; a person who never finds
the peace of mind. Noli is a dissatisfied rebel, with a fury of
revenge, and a display of anger for having lost the battle, but he
is never-ending in his ideal of freedom and the emancipation of
his own nation.
As there are many opposing persons in Noli s persona, and
as Noli also possesses spiritual contradictions, the entire life of
Noli seems to be a clashing of opposites, a mixture of internal
conflicts. We can clearly see his tendencies appearing through a
spiritual battle, the idealistic against the materialistic, democrat
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against dictatorial ideologies, revolutionary against peaceful and
vice-versa, and so on. One should also ad here some other
contradictions when God s servant appears to be a supporter of
Bolshevism, the true intellectual expressing understanding for
Albania s partisans, etc. For such reasons, Noli was accused of
being a red priest, having nothing in common with the dogma.
However, Noli, before all, was an Albanian, a late Revivalist, a
patriot, democrat, an erudite intellectual of wide culture, who,
like
Konica,
any time he liked, approved or embraced an idea,
point of view, or new principle or idea, and was always ready to
reason and bring proof to his arguments.
In the concluding chapter entitled, Noli and Contemporaries,
testimonies by people who knew Noli are presented, and they are
divided in two groups: those who value Noli so highly as to
glorify and turn him into a myth, and those who attack and
stigmatize him. This also includes those of our present-day time
who try to re-evaluate him through objectivity and arguments.
In conclusion, one may say that a number of facts and accounts
show that for over a half a centuiy Noli certainly lived and
worked in America. However, America was his second
homeland, whom he loved both for making it possible for him
to develop his intellectual, human, and national talents, abilities,
and ideals, and for being able to carry out his extensive cultural
and political duties and tasks. Noli loved America; especially
because of the support America gave to Albanians in decisive
moments in their history. This is also reflected in the words of
an eloquent speech Noli held before Albanian-Americans:
Albanians began arriving to America when their fatherland was
still a Turkish province. They were fleeing from Turkish bad
government, hunger, persecution, religious obstruction and
want. They were received here, at these hospitable, coasts open-
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handed; they were given the opportunity to earn for their own
selves and for the relatives they left behind; they were treated as
equal, they enjoyed the blessing of religious tolerance, freedom
of press and assembly; they saw the sweet light of freedom and
democracy, and for more, they rose the torch that led them in
their old country in their fierce struggle for national
independence. In yet another example of Noli s excellent
speech-making he presents the question of liberty and
civilization on one side, and the struggle against barbarity and
autocracy, on the other. He argues that America s war for
democracy is but a crusade similar to that waged by our national
hero, George Kastrioti
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Scanderbeg. On this occasion, Noli s
words come to mind: Scanderbeg fought at his time against
barbarity and paganism, like America and its allies are fighting
today to save civilization. His soul would take joy if he saw we
are carrying out our duty in this big cause, which after all is also
an Albanian cause. This study of Noli is concluded with a
synthesizing conclusion, a biographical chronology and
bibliographical literature used.
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PASQYRA
ELENDES
PARATHËNIE
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PJESAEPARË
Përtretja
.,.■.23
Rrëfimet autobiografike
.37
Fan Noli
në
Amerike
.50
Noli dhe "Dielli"
.56
"Vatra"
e shqiptarëve të Amerikës dhe
Noli.
63
Themelimi
і
Kishës Autoqefale Ortodokse Shqiptare
.71
Lărgimi
dhe kthimi në Amerikë
. 80
PJESAEDYTË
Fan Noli
dhe
Faik Konica.85
Noli
kundër Zogut dhe aludimet për Konicën
.92
"Ca njerëz të lodhur, ca të tjerë të trashë
.95
Lista duhet
plotësuar
.97
DakoII
.98
Karriera
politike dhe diplomatike
.107
Fan Noli si
orator
.126
Publicistika
e Nolit
.135
Letërkëmbimi
.140
Fan Noli dhe
Norbert
Jokli
.145
Noli dhe
Miss Edith Durhami.149
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PJESAETRETË
Koleksioni fonografik: Ligjërimi Nolian
.153
"Izraelite dhe Filistine"
.167
"Historia
e
Skënderbeut"
.172
"Bethoveni
dhe Revolucioni Frëng"
.181
Noli si poet
dhe "Albumi"
.189
Noli si
përkthyes letrar
.192
Fan Noli dhe
vepra
e Shekspirit
.201
"Othelloja"
në gjuhën shqipe
.205
Noli dhe "Don Kishoti"
.208
Librai
fetarë në shqip
e anglisht
.211
Noli si njeri kontradiktor
.220
Një jetë
e
tërë në mërgim:
Vitet
e
fundit
.226
Noli dhe
bashkëkohësit.
239
Konklúzión
.254
Summary
.259
Kronologji biografike
e Fan
Nolit-
1882-1965.273
Kronologji
e shqiptarëve të Amerikës
.278
Burimetdhe
literatura.
285
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KONKLÚZIÓN
'
Pas përzgjedhjes dhe paraqitjes se fakteve dhe ideve,
e
njëherazi edhe të mbarështrimit, shqyrtimit analizues dhe
sistemit të
tyre,
arritëm të konstatojmë se veprimtaria
e
Nolit
ne SHBA përbën një ndër
periudhat tejet
të rëndësishme të jetës
dhe të veprës se
tij.
Ai krijoi si
poet, dramaturg, përkthyes,
prozator, diplomat, publicist,
kritik
letrar
e muzikor,
historian,
prift reformator,
kompozitor
dhe gojëtar, duke ushtruar një
ndikim të dukshëm si në gjuhësi, letërsi dhe kulturë, ashtu edhe
në mendimin demokratikkombëtar dhe shoqëror. Si personalitet
і
artit,
і
kulturës,
і
fesë dhe
і
diturisë,
Noli
u
bë një ndërlidhës
і
denjë
і
Rilindjes sonë Kombëtare me epokën tonë,
і
antikes
me
modernen,
і
traditës me novatoren,
i vieres
estetike dhe etike, i
universales
me vlerat
kombëtare.
Si i tille,
ai u
shndërrua në një
nga
ata
krijues, veprat e shquara të të cilit janë jo vetëm pjesë e
thesarit tonë kombëtar, por edhe pjesë përbërëse e kulturës së
përbotshme. Emri
і
Theofan
Stilian Nolit është
і
lidhur
ngushtë
me historinë dhe
kulturen shqiptare
të shekullit njëzet.
Ai lindi,
jetoi dhe vdiq
larg
atdheut. Por, që nga mërgimi ai punoi vetëm
për Shqipërinë, ai krijoi gjëra madhështore që e lartësuan
dinjitetin e shqiptarit,
kurse
në veprimtarinë e papushuar të
përditshme iu përkushtua pavarësisë dhe konsolidimit të shtetit
shqiptar dhe demokratizimit të jetës shqiptare.
Si njeri që
pati
një jetë relativisht të gjatë (arriti moshën
85-
vjeçare),
jeta
e tij e begatë, tronditëse dhe me përvojë të thellë,
і
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dha mundësi, nga një anë që të vihej në shërbimin e popullit të
vet të përvuajtur, e nga
ana
tjetër,
i takoi
të bëhej edhe dëshmitar
і
kulminacionit të Rilindjes Kombëtare shqiptare,
i shpalljes
së
pavarësisë,
і
Luftërave Ballkanike,
і
paragjykimeve dhe
і
padrejtësive
politike
dhe
diplomatike,
i dy
Luftërave Botërore,
і
fillimit
të Luftës së Ftohtë,
і
shpartallim.it
të fashizmit dhe
nazizmit,
і
demaskimit të komunizmit,
і
luftës së Koresë dhe
і
konsolidimit të demokracisë
amerikáne.
Që nga rinia, atij
i ka
takuar të njohë një pjesë të madhe të Evropës, të Azisë, të Afrikës
dhe, në
fund,
të Amerikës,
ku i
mbaroi udhëtimet e tij
pesëdhjetëvjeçare.
Noli
u
dërgua në
Amerike nga patriote
dhe veprimtarë të
Rilindjes së vonë Kombëtare për organizimin e lëvizjes
kombëtare të shqiptarëve në Amerikë. Atje, brenda një kohe të
shkurtër
Noli
krijoi shoqërinë "Besa-besë", që më pas
u
shkri
në federatën
"Vatra",
si dhe gazetën "Dielli". Në Amerikë ai
u
detyrua të bëjë një punë të rëndë që të siguronte jetesën. Nga
gjithë veprimtaritë e kësaj periudhe të jetës
politike
të Nolit,
më e rëndësishmja është shkëputja e kishës ortodokse shqiptare
dhe
lufta
kundër
propagandes
shoviniste greke. Për këtë qëllim
më
1908
ai
u
dorëzua prift dhe, duke vazhduar traditën e nisur
nga Kristoforidhi, përktheu shumë
libra
të ndryshëm të kishës
në gjuhën shqipe.
Bir
fshatari,
і
etshëm për arsim dhe
dituri,
porsa arriti në SHBA
і
vazhdoi studimet në moshën
30-vjeçare,
u
diplomua në muzikë në
Konservatorium,
në moshën
50-
vjeçare
dhe doktoroi në moshën
63-vjeçare me
tezën mbi
Skënderbeun.
Fan Noli
përdori kishën si tribune për forcimin
e shqiptarizmit. Përkrahës
і
luftës për
çlirim
nga sundimi
osman
(1910-1912),
pas shpalljes së Pavarësisë,
u
vu në shërbim të
qeverisë kombëtare të Vlorës. Pikëpamjet mbi organizimin e
shtetit,
politiken
e brendshme e të jashtme,
і
shtjelloi në shkrime
e fjalime në
vitet
1921-1924.
Luftoi që shteti të
vinte
në jetë
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parimét
e
demokracisë së përparuar.
Në
krye
të qeverisë,
Fan Noli
і
shpalli këto
paríme demokratike,
por ai dhe bashkëpunëtorët e
tij nuk
treguan
vendosmërinë e
duhur për
ťi zbatuar
deri
në
fund.
Ai
shprehu
aspiratën e shqiptarëve për
liri
dhe për shoqëri
demokratike, për drej'tësi e përparim. Idetë noliane
u
zhvilluan e
u
poqën dhe arritën
kulme
të mendimit shqiptar. Ndonëse
і
mërguar, ai ishte për shumë kohë
tribun i
demokracisë shqiptare.
Ai prodhoi një
varg
krijimesh
me nivel
të lartë artistik, ku rrihen
disa nga
problemet
kryesore të kohës. Kontributi më
і
madh
і
Fan Nolit në letërsinë shqipe ishin shqipërimet e tij, por edhe
puna
e tij si stilist po edhe si poet
і
rebelimit dhe
i ndryshimit.
Bashkë me Faik Konicën,
Noli mund
të konsiderohet
si stilisti
më
і
madh në gjuhën shqipe. Njohja e shumë gjuhëve të
rëndësishme botërore
і
bëri atij të
mundur
të zhvillonte shqipen
në një gjuhë të përpunuar dhe të rrjedhshme, në një gjuhë me
potencial
të madh letrar dhe krijues. Ndonëse ai shkroi pak në
aspektin
krijues letrar,
Fan Noli
megjithatë mbetet një nga viganët
e letërsisë shqipe. Ai ishte ndër mjeshtrit e poezisë shqiptare,
kurse
lirikat e tij ngërthejnë përgjithësime të rëndësishme artistike dhe
shquhen nga fuqia e shprehjeve
poetike
emociónale.
Fan Noli
u
kushtoi vëmendje të
posaçme
edhe studimeve
historike.
Në këtë fushë
interesimi
і
tij
u
përqendrua rreth jetës
dhe bëmave të Gjergj Kastriotit Skënderbeut. Monografitë
Historia
e Skënderbeut,
botimi
і
dytë
і
plotësuar
dhe
і
ripunuar
doli
më
1947,
dhe
Historia
e
Skënderbeut
(1949)
në gjuhën
angleze, shënojnë një etapë më të lartë në studimet për
heroin
kombëtar.
Fan Noli
u
mor edhe
me muzikologji. Monografía
e
tij,
Bethoveni dhe Revolucioni
Frëng
(1947)
në gjuhën
angleze
u
çmua lart nga
specialiste dhe
personalitete të shquara evropiane
të kohës. Ai është
autor
edhe
і
një vargu kompozimesh muzikore,
nga të cilat vlen të përmendet një
rapsodi
për Skënderbeun, etj.
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të shquar botërorë,
si
Shekspiri,
Ibseni,
Servantesi, Khajami,
etj. Vepra
e tij
poetike, publicistike dhe
përkthimet luajtën rol të
rëndësishëm për formimin shpirtëror të intelektualëve
demokrate
të viteve njëzet dhe e ruajnë edhe
sot
vieren e
tyre.
Nuk ka pikë dyshimi
se Noli,
qoftë si shqipërues dhe poet,
qoftë si themelues
і
kishës ortodokse shqiptare dhe publicist e
historian,
ka sjellë nxitje,
ide,
pikëpamje,
koncepte, tendenca
dhe lëvizje të
reja,
si për letërsinë dhe diturinë shqiptare, ashtu
edhe për ndërgjegjësimin kulturor, civilizues dhe kombëtar të
shqiptarëve. Njëherazi, ai ka pasuruar
kombin shqiptar
me
frymëzime,
aspirata,
ideale dhe
sisteme
vlerash që
ende
nuk ishin
të pranishme në mjediset shqiptare. Me një fjalë,
dalja
e tij në
skenën kombëtare dhe
historike,
herë si luftëtar për zgjimin,
bashkimin dhe vëllazërinë kombëtare, herë si emancipues
kulturor dhe herë si prijatar
і
lirisë dhe
і
pavarësisë kombëtare,
ka shënuar një lloj kthese të vërtetë në zhvillimin e mendimit
demokratik shqiptar.
Në këtë
punim
është bërë përpjekje për të hedhur dritë
përgjithësisht mbi personalitetin e tij poliedrik, duke e zbuluar
atë si udhëheqës të lëvizjes kombëtare e demokratike,
klerik
dhe shtetar,
artist dhe
dijetar, i
cili
jetoi e veproi në SHBA.
Përmes mendimeve të bashkëkohësve të tij, është bërë edhe një
përshkrim
і
Nolit për
ta
njohur atë edhe si
njeri. Edhe pse
ai
jetoi gjatë dhe qe protagonist dhe pjesëmarrës në ngjarje që
vendosën fatin e Shqipërisë dhe të shoqërisë shqiptare, edhe
pse
bashkëpunoi duke
u
lidhur
me qindra njerëz në atdhe e në
diaspore,
kujtimet e njerëzve për të merren kryesisht me
rolet
që ai ka lozur, por vazhdojnë të mos shterin kundërthëniet e tij
si njeri. Në
fakt, się
del nga të gjithë
ata
që e kanë njohur njeriun
me personalitet
te Noli,
emri
і
tij vazhdon të jetë sfidues, ndonëse
ai vazhdon të jetë personifikim jo vetëm për atdhetarin dhe
demokratin,
jo vetëm për poetin dhe shkrimtarin, jo vetëm për
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një nga etërit e qytetërimit shqiptar, por edhe për njeriun si njeri
dhe si një prej shëmbëlltyrave më të ndritura të botës shqiptare.
Për Nolin, ashtu sic ndodh me shumë njerëz të shquar, janë
krijuar
mite
dhe mitet e errësojnë të vërtetën. Vete ai është
shndërruar në
mit
dhe vazhdon të qëndrojë
i tille,
madje edhe
në përshkrimet që
i běhen
nga të tjerët dhe hije të së cilës gjenden
edhe në veprën dhe jetën e tij.
Figura
e tij duhet pare pa këto
hije të krijimit të mitit, duke e vënë atë në kontekstin e
përgjithshëm
social
e psikologjik. Përpjekjet për të mbledhur
kujtime nga bashkëkohësit që hedhin dritë mbi Nolin si njeri,
nuk kanë munguar.
Ato i
gjejmë në komunitetin shqiptar në
SHBA, ku studiues dhe njerëz të zellshëm, sado të pakte, kanë
kryer hulumtime, të cilat
і
kanë botuar dhe vazhdojnë t'i botojnë,
ngaqë
figura
e Nolit vazhdon të jetë një gurrë e pashtershme
për studiues të fushave të ndryshme.
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SUMMARY
Essentially, the motivation for research on Theofan Stilian
Noli is multifaceted: his grandeur and multidimensional figure,
being an Albanian and American dignitary, an intellectual, author,
religious man, translator, historian, musician, poet, statesman,
and diplomat. He contributed to the Albanian-American
friendship and to the Albanian national cause, together with
another great man of letters,
Faik Konica.
Both of them left
behind a legacy of great works of culture, literature, history,
diplomacy and letters.
In working on this book I attempted to collect, systemize
and present the topics and problems dealing with Fan Noli, his
work and his time in the United States of America from
1906
to
1965.
I began with the time he first arrived to the Promised
Land and continued through to the last days of his life before
his passing away in March
1965
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I
dealt in particular with Noli's research work and his cultural
and publication activities in English. After confining my focus
to Noli's stay in Europe, I then continued with his second and
final trip to the USA in the capacity of the archbishop of Albanian
Orthodox Church in Boston, and the becoming of an
uncrowned leader of Albanian-American community.
The first part of the book includes a history and chronology
of Albanian immigration in America
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to the new life of the first Albanian arrivals in the new world
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focus on the reasons and motivations for Noli's arrival to
America as a result of an overall patriotic activity by the late
representatives of the Albanian Awakening in the beginning of
the 20th century. In particular, Noli's humanitarian, cultural and
patriotic engagement, inspired and forged by the ideologists of
the National Awakening are described. The second part focused
on the political and diplomatic career of Noli; the third part
involves a continued creative activity by Noli as author, translator
of Shakespeare, Edgar
Alan Poe,
Cervantes, Hugo, etc.,
translation of religious books and psalms and other works by
him, which include both original and translated poems.
Led by scientific conviction and objectivity in observing and
discussing the activity and character of this notable Albanian of
the last century, and being convinced that Nolian studies have
not been concluded yet, I concentrated mainly on fifty years of
Noli's activities in the United States. Although the subject scope
seemed wide and unexhausted, it needed a sophisticated
concentration, rather than an extended generalization and
undetermined assessment of the past.
The result was a critical and analytical approach to Noli's
activities in the USA, including reasons why interest was taken
on him by historians, scholars, translators, literary critics,
diplomats, etc. The wide and diverse amount of studies dealing
with Theofan Stilian Noli remains a source of valuable
information for major and critical periods of Albanian national
history of modern times, and this book is an attempt at shedding
new light on the subject.
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establishment
of first colonies and societies, and the arrival of
Fan Noli to this community. His arrival and his first activities at
the beginning of his career among Albanian-Americans marked
a particular date of importance in the development of Albanian
Diaspora in the States. Based not only on data from his
Autobiography' but from other recollections of his contemporaries
and materials gathered in the United States, it has been made clear
that Noli, began as a journalist and over time he achieved growth
and success, including becoming: the editor for the
'Kombi'
newspaper in Boston, founder of the first societies of Albanian-
Americans, founder of the periodical 'Dielli', the first preacher
of an Albanian church, and a talented speaker in the meetings
held and organized by Albanian-Americans during
1910-11,12,
in support of galvanization of the Albanian cause. Later on,
working together with other Albanian-American community
notable names in Massachusetts, particularly with his life-long
companion Faik.
Konica,
Noli was enthusiastically involved in
developing his Pan-Albanian Society
'Vatra.'
This society played
an extraordinary role in the overall Albanian national movement,
and it assisted in Albania achieving its independence in
1912.
Noli gave an undeniable contribution to
'Vatra'
in its educational,
illuminating, publicizing and diplomatic efforts. It had turned,
for a certain period of time prior to the declaration of Albania's
independence, into a government in exile.
'Vatra'
also supported
the first Government of Ismail Qemali and that of the German
Prince
Wied
at a later stage during the Balkan wars and World
War One. It published a number of important books and articles
deploring the massacres, persecution and reprisals against
Albanians by the Greek, Serb and Montenegrin armies during
World War One.
'Vatra'
also renounced and condemned the
secret Treaty of London of
1915
regarding further partitioning
of Albania, doing what it could on the internationalization of
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the Albanian national issue. It sent its leader, Fan Noli to meet
US President Wilson and ask him for US support at the Peace
Conference in Paris
(1918)
to prevent Albania's
dismemberment, and to become the protectorate over Albania.
'Vatra'
also sent Fan Noli to the Lushnja Congress, to the Paris
Peace Conference, and to Geneva to represent Albania to the
League of "Nations
(1921).
Noli was sent to represent Albanian-
Americans to the newly formed Albanian Parliament
(1921-24),
where he tried to introduce Albania of the 20's to the ideas,
principles and concepts of American democracy. According to
Noli's deep convictions, American principles and values "were
meant to save Albania considering the fact that Anglo-Saxon
culture would suit best to the puritan spirit of the Albanian race."
Finally, in June
1924
'Vatra'
gave to Albania the Prime Minister
of the Republic. In brief, Noli was sure that "without
'Vatra'
there would be no Albania today." This part also includes the
history of Noli founding the Albanian Orthodox Church in
Boston
(1908)
as a response to the Greek anti-Albanian plots
and the Hellenizing attempts by the Greek Church. In a drive
to raise educational and national awareness among Albanian-
Americans, Noli translated into Albanian, almost at once, a
selected number of liturgical books for the church services.
Importantly, very often a mass held by Noli turned into a
nationalist propagandist movement aimed at friendship,
tolerance, brotherhood, and the eliciting of feelings of national
unity. Of particular weight were Noli's
1908
articles on future
emancipation of the Albanian people, published in
'Kombi'
and
other periodicals. Noli authentically and genuinely treats the
question of religion among Albanians. He complains that the
world refuses to recognize the tradition of Albanian religious
tolerance, reiterating time and again that religions represent an
obstacle to their unity and progress. Noli was aware of the fact
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that religions were a historical heritage left to Albanians. Albanian
National Revival representatives made attempts to either put
religion aside or they tried to forge a new faith that, according
to them, would unite Albanians. However, both the people and
religious leaders opposed such attempts. On his part, Noli was
convinced that Albanians needed no religious leaders, seeing
them as causing unnecessary religious and national divisions,
becoming blind instruments of anti-Albanian politics. Noli was
deeply convinced that what Albanians needed were true priests
and bishops, as well as imams and muftis; "God-fearing and
ready to spread in zeal and justice God's commandments." He
pays great attention to the fact that religious leaders should be
servants to God and to Albanians as well; he realizes that they
must make it clear to the people that one may have a particular
religion inherited from his predecessors, but he may not choose
another ethnicity and fight against his own 'without staining his
forehead with of big seal of treason.' Noli's message is that when
God sent down His prophets He did not send them to make
Albanians kill each other, but to live in friendship and love with
each other and "live in happiness" in peace and freedom. In the
conclusion of this part, the book describes several trips made by
Noli from America to Europe
(1911-1918),
going on various
missions relevant to the national cause, having been sent either
by
"Vatra,"
or the Albanian Government. Following the collapse
of his Republican Government by the end of
1924,
Noli was
trapped for
9
years as an immigrant in Europe, and in
1933
his
journeys outside America finally came to an end, and he returned
with mixed emotions, feeling the bitter despair of having to live
"forever on a foreign soil."
Further on in the second part, relations between Noli and F.
Konica
have been presented and discussed, as well as Noli
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relations
with the famous Albanian scholar
N.
Jokl and Miss
Durham, a well-known friend of the Albanians. Here the
political career, journalistic work, speech making and
correspondence of Fan Noli are discussed. A considerable
number of facts, explanations and ideas on the relationships
between Noli and
Konica
have been brought forward. This
section includes conclusions on Konica's role and relevance for
the Albanian world of culture and literature, as well as his
friendship with Noli, their co-operation, polemics, and debates
involving the two most remarkable figures of the contemporary
Albanian culture. The reader is exposed to a presentation of the
chronology of co-operation between the two, starting with their
initial relationship in the beginning of the 20th when they were
involved in polemics. Their interactive relationship was from
time to time fierce, exaggerated and inciting, and it has presented
an interesting and extraordinary richness for the Albanian culture
in general, as they bear an insignia of a high level and beautiful
style, intellectual insight and a rare polemics vocabulary.
Both
Konica
and Noli remained close and inseparable friends
as they were joined by many ideas, points of view, qualities,
culture, aspirations and common values. Despite their polemics
they were able to preserve in their souls a deep respect for each
other, an intellectual tolerance and friendship, full of reverence
for each other. A brief description of Noli's friendship with the
well-known German-born Albanian scholar
Norbert
Jokl is also
provided. Jokl highly appreciated Noli's talent as a translator,
especially after reading his translation of Khayam's "Rubaiyats."
Aware of Jokl's high culture, knowledge and authority in the
science of linguistics in general and Albanian studies in particular,
Noli wrote a letter to the German authorities in order to spare
the life of this great scholar of Albanian culture of Jewish origin
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Continuing on, the friendship between Noli and Miss Edith
Durham, a much-esteemed British author among Albanians, is
presented. In this part, particular attention has been paid to the
diplomatic activities of Fan Noli on his important missions to
the League of Nations, before and after Albania's membership.
Noli had manifested a great talent for diplomacy, especially on
the occasion of presentation of his memorandum of
unprecedented historical and diplomatic importance to the
Versailles Conference in
1918.
It should be pointed out that
this was one of the Albanian masterpieces of diplomatic
memorandum ever written. Noli also demonstrated his
diplomatic potential during WorldWar Two, collaborating with
Konica, Zog, Zavalani,
and others in protecting the rights of the
Albanian people to its subsistence and independence. In addition,
speaking of Noli as a speech-maker, it should be pointed out
that Noli's speech-making covered various topics over time, and
falls into three categories: patriotic, ecclesiastical, and political-
cultural. As the Albanian National Movement developed, Noli's
speech-making ability grew in its variety. Noli had a rare speech-
making ability, as he possessed the power of presentation,
unfolding of argument, eloquence, sweet voice, power of word
and fact, and an efficient way of reasoning of concept. He was
able to not only to grab the attention of the listener, but he
entirely captivate him. In the meantime, Noli's works as publicist
have turned out to be a chronicle of the Albanian political,
national and social life of the time. Noli's journalistic works
developed over a long span of time, and it may be divided into
four main periods; the same, as his correspondence with his
friends and various dignitaries.
The third
part,
containing
13
various chapters, is the most
extensive. It presents two groups of topics and the issues are
analyzed in detail. This contains Noli's contribution as a
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playwright, poet, religious man, historian, translator, artist and
scientist with a critical approach. This section throws light on
unknown facts from Noli's activities; analyzing Noli as a man
of contradiction, his character, education, outlook, principles,
stances, values, virtues, impressions, his communication skills,
his friends and well-wishers; Noli's relations with dignitaries
and ordinary folk, ideologies, and finally his relations with his
detractors and enemies, including opinions of some of Noli's
contemporaries.
Noli's first original work, 'Israelites and Philistines,' a topic
borrowed from the Old Testament, points out an idea that
believing in truth and commitment toward a cause, one should
be ready to sacrifice at the altar of the fatherland. Samson has
been portrayed in this play as a superhuman figure who, on one
side, has no wish of using power or violence in spreading out
his truth, and on the other, to defend his truth and the sublime
ideal Samson is ready for any kind of sacrifice. Samson's drama
is a clear allusion to an approaching uprising by Albanians, while
the colossal figure of Samson not only represents the Albanian
hero and his philosophical dilemma, but also the author himself
Noli, had an affinity to identify himself with heroic figures, as
he had previously identified himself with Christ and Scanderbeg,
two of his lifetime revered figures. Many pay respect and
attention to Noli as a historian, particularly as author of the
"History of Scanderbeg (George Kastrioti)
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King of Albania"
(1921),
with which Noli reached his peak as a historian. But he
is also an artistic writer, as this historical work of his was also a
true artistic work and masterpiece of writing.
In writing his book, Fan Noli researched the earliest and
best books on Scanderbeg (Barleti, Biemm, Tivarius, G. Buzaka,
D. Frangu, etc), and in using his rich imagination, he embodied
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once again with the legendary and national figure of Scanderbeg.
In this way, Noli's work on Scanderbeg became a very popular
and widely read book, admired overwhelmingly by readers who
took pride with Noli's Scanderbeg's figure. This first work by
Noli on Scanderbeg had been written not only a historical book,
but also as a work written by a true fiction writer. In addition,
by passing of time, incited and enchanted by the great figure of
the national hero, Noli began his dedicated work of scholarly
research through archives and old sources in order to write yet
another study volume on Scanderbeg. Hence, in
1945
at the age
of
64,
his persistent and self-sacrificing work resulted in
defending his PhD thesis in English in Boston, entitled: 'George
Kastrioti
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Scanderbeg.' This time Noli wrote based on primary
documents and most important studies on Scanderbeg that was
starting forth from the principle that 'every hero in history had
to pass through three stages
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glorification, denunciation and
réévaluation.'
Noli not only distinguishes tradition from legend,
primary document from the secondary one, but he also presents
and unfolds arguments that contributed to the resistance and
successful battle waged by Scanderbeg against the invading
Ottomans. In Noli's assessment of Scanderbeg's resistance and
fighting, he points out that there are four views of particular
importance:
(1.)
that his war was a Christian crusade against
the Turks;
(2.)
that it was a long war of resistance against the
two greatest Sultans of Turkey;
(3.)
that it represents an
important chapter of the history of Balkans, and
(4.)
that it was
a war of classes of free Albanian peasantry against Turkish
feudalism on one hand and Venetian capitalism on the other.
Some of these viewpoints led T. Zavalani to describe Noli's book
as "a work wearing Marxist ideas." In
1947
Noli published in
New York an improved and updated version of his
1921
"History
of Scanderbeg
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Noli also published in English, an important study called
"Beethoven and the French Revolution," bringing an excellent
portrayal of Beethoven as a revolutionary in his efforts to turn
his music into a powerful means of rising up the masses and
transforming the traditional society into a more humane one.
This scholarly book had been highly evaluated by famous
authors such as Bernard Shaw and Thomas Mann. Further,
details of Album
1
and
2'
have been presented in the book with
chapters on Noli as a translator, not only of religious texts and
service books, but also his earlier and later translations done in
the USA. In the period between
1906
and
1918,
Noli translated
a total of
21
novels, short stories, fragments, poems, and plays
from
7
various languages and literatures. Among the authors he
translated were Heraclites, Molier, Shakespeare, V.
Irwin,
Ε. Α.
Poe,
Η.
W.
Longfellow, Gi
De Mopasan, Stendhal, R
Edges,
Tolstoy,
Björnson,
A, Pescev,
M.
Gorky, etc. His
second phase
of
translations
took
place
mainly in
Europe,
and in his third
phase, Noli appears with his "Don Quixote" of Cervantes and a
number of poems
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true jewels of poetic art, published in his
"Albums." Both in the first and other phases of his activity as
translator, Noli shows certain relevant motives for the
translations. Hence, it may be concluded that while the religious
texts were written by Fan Noli for church reasons and for reason
of individual and national dignity, some of his earlier translations
make one believe that the motive behind them was raising the
conscience for national feeling of freedom, resistance against
the occupation and in favor of independence, and we find such
as for example P. Edges' story "Two kinds of force", Gi
De
Mopasan story "Two Friends", Stendhal's novel "Vanina Vanini",
etc. Another time, he switches the motive. By translating into
Albanian the poem "Scanderbeg" by the American poet
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Longfellow, Noli claims that absence of works in the Albanian
language had been compelling to him to set a "popular library"
in order "to give my fellow compatriots some selected works
from world literature." Noli continues saying that Scanderbeg
by the American author "is perhaps the most beautiful one ever
written about our national hero," and the American poet, he
says, has used all his skill in order to present the qualities and
virtues of the Albanian hero. Almost all of Noli's translations
have a motive behind them. This is also true for the translations
of Shakespeare's works; thus, by translating "Othello" he not
only wanted to enrich Albanian literature with one of the works
of the world-famous author, but he also wanted to pass a message
on ethical and philosophical experience to his Albanian readers.
Also, through the translation of "Macbeth", Noli tried to
stigmatize and tarnish the usurpers and culprits of the throne.
By translating "Julius Caesar" he was referring to the adventure
of revolutionary liberators, both humane and inhumane, and
by translating "Hamlet" he brought forth sick ambition,
disloyalty, hypocrisy, crime, dilemma, faced by a disappointed
mind, injustice, and Hamlet's revenge. However, with the
translation of Khayam's "Rubaiyats" he not only brought to the
Albanian literature one of the pearls of world literature, but he
also raised up to the sky the freedom of thought of livelihood,
joy, life's pleasure, principle of optimism, noble aim of life, magic
power of love, the right to life's pleasures, expansion of living
horizon, and courage to cope with death. It is not strange,
therefore, that his translations were received with an unusually
positive evaluation by A. Xhuvani, who called it "the most
beautiful and valued work done by Noli, an invaluable stone of
our literature." And, finally, with the translation of Cervantes'
"Don Quixote", Noli gave a powerful blow to the follies,
wrongdoings, and foolishness of outdated notables of modern
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times.
Identifying a literary and artistic work belonging to foreign
literature, of a different time and space, with the bitter reality of
his own time and country, Noli goes further in drawing a parallel
between the Spain of Don Quixote's time and Albanian of his
living time, equating Don Quixote and
Sancho Pancha
with the
beys and rascals of Albania, and their attempts to hinder the
surge of history. Here are some of Noli's thoughts on Don
Quixote: "Don Quixote died the way he lived, as a medieval
knight who escaped in modern times. Will Albanians die in that
fashion too? Here is the tragedy of Albania with backward
Albanians."
One of the most striking and interesting topics on Noli's
contradictions is treated in the Chapter named "Noli as a
contradictory man." This chapter offers a dense analytical and
critical observation on Noli's contradictions, inconsistencies and
antagonisms. Noli has most often been portrayed as a man full
of contradictions with internal conflicts of soul. He is often seen
as a person with inscrutable psychology, never calm, occasionally
isolated, sometimes in opposition to others and sometimes even
in disagreement with his own self. Noli is a genius of multiple
values who stands alone, cut off from his surroundings, pulled
apart from the mediocrity of masses; a person who never finds
the peace of mind. Noli is a dissatisfied rebel, with a fury of
revenge, and a display of anger for having lost the battle, but he
is never-ending in his ideal of freedom and the emancipation of
his own nation.
As there are many opposing persons in Noli's persona, and
as Noli also possesses spiritual contradictions, the entire life of
Noli seems to be a clashing of opposites, a mixture of internal
conflicts. We can clearly see his tendencies appearing through a
spiritual battle, the idealistic against the materialistic, democrat
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against dictatorial ideologies, revolutionary against peaceful and
vice-versa, and so on. One should also ad here some other
contradictions when God's servant appears to be a supporter of
Bolshevism, the true intellectual expressing understanding for
Albania's partisans, etc. For such reasons, Noli was accused of
being a "red priest," having nothing in common with the dogma.
However, Noli, before all, was an Albanian, a late Revivalist, a
patriot, democrat, an erudite intellectual of wide culture, who,
like
Konica,
any time he liked, approved or embraced an idea,
point of view, or new principle or idea, and was always ready to
reason and bring proof to his arguments.
In the concluding chapter entitled, "Noli and Contemporaries,"
testimonies by people who knew Noli are presented, and they are
divided in two groups: those who value Noli so highly as to
glorify and turn him into a myth, and those who attack and
stigmatize him. This also includes those of our present-day time
who try to re-evaluate him through objectivity and arguments.
In conclusion, one may say that a number of facts and accounts
show that for over a half a centuiy Noli certainly lived and
worked in America. However, America was his second
homeland, whom he loved both for making it possible for him
to develop his intellectual, human, and national talents, abilities,
and ideals, and for being able to carry out his extensive cultural
and political duties and tasks. Noli loved America; especially
because of the support America gave to Albanians in decisive
moments in their history. This is also reflected in the words of
an eloquent speech Noli held before Albanian-Americans:
"Albanians began arriving to America when their fatherland was
still a Turkish province. They were fleeing from Turkish bad
government, hunger, persecution, religious obstruction and
want. They were received here, at these hospitable, coasts open-
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handed; they were given the opportunity to earn for their own
selves and for the relatives they left behind; they were treated as
equal, they enjoyed the blessing of religious tolerance, freedom
of press and assembly; they saw the sweet light of freedom and
democracy, and for more, they rose the torch that led them in
their old country in their fierce struggle for national
independence." In yet another example of Noli's excellent
speech-making he presents the question of liberty and
civilization on one side, and the struggle against barbarity and
autocracy, on the other. He argues that America's war for
democracy is but a crusade similar to that waged by our national
hero, George Kastrioti
-
Scanderbeg. On this occasion, Noli's
words come to mind: "Scanderbeg fought at his time against
barbarity and paganism, like America and its allies are fighting
today to save civilization. His soul would take joy if he saw we
are carrying out our duty in this big cause, which after all is also
an Albanian cause." This study of Noli is concluded with a
synthesizing conclusion, a biographical chronology and
bibliographical literature used.
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