The Romanian stand at the Fair is organized by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, books from the following publishing houses being exhibited: Adenium, Cartea Românească, Casa de Pariuri Literare, Casa Radio, Corint, Curtea Veche, Editura Muzeelor Literare, Gama, Gramar, HAC!, Hasefer, Humanitas, Humanitas Fiction, House of Guides, Romanian Cultural Institute Publishing House, Editura Institutul Naţional pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România "Elie Wiesel", Institutul European, Editura Familia, Max Blecher, Editura Militară, Monitorul Oficial, Nemira, Niculescu, Orizonturi, Polirom, RAO, Teopiticot, Tracus Arte, Trei, Vivaldi, Vremea.
Address and visiting hours of the Book Fair:
The Jerusalem First Station Complex, German Colony - 4 David Remez St.
Sunday, February 8: between 18:00- 22:00
Monday, February 9 - Thursday, February 12: between 10:00-22:00
The Romanian writers who will be present at the 2015 Jerusalem International Book Fair are:
• with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute: Bogdan Hrib, Ioan T. Morar, Horia Gârbea and Sorina Chiper, together with Romanian-born Israeli authors Riri Sylvia Manor, Moshe Idel, Raphael Vago and Costel Safirman.
• with the support of the Romanian Ministry of Culture: Andrei Oișteanu, Adrian Cioflâncă, Cătălin Mihuleac, Carmen Gavrilă and Alexandru Florian, together with Romanian-born Israeli authors Shani Boianjiu, Zoltan Terner, Moshe Idel, G. Mosari, T. Solomovici, Adrian Graunfels, Bianca Marcovici and Dafna Schoenwald.
Also, The National Book Centre - RCI Bucharest will be represented by Bogdan Popescu, director, while Hasefer Publishing House will be represented by Alexandru Marinescu, director and editor-in-chief of the Romanian magazine "Realitatea Evreiască".
RCI Tel Aviv would like to thank the Embassy of Romania to the State of Israel for their support in organizing the Romanian participation at the Jerusalem International Book Fair.
First held in 1963, The Jerusalem International Book Fair is a biennial event and attracts thousands of visitors every edition, this year’s theme being “Visual Books”. At the 2015 edition, which will take place in a new venue – The First Station, the Jerusalem Prize will be awarded to Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.
Romanian literary events at the Fair:
I. Literary Cafe (in English) Monday, February 9, 2015, at 20:00, the Gallery of the Jerusalem First Station"Tension in the Air" - World Crime Literature, Origins and Future. Participants: Dror A.Mishani (Israel) and Bogdan Hrib (Romania) – organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv
II. Book launches and presentations at the Romanian stand (in Romanian and English)Monday, February 9, 14.00 – 14.30 “Virgil Duda – vocation and literary consciousness”. Greetings: Bogdan Popescu, director of the National Book Center - Romanian Cultural Institute. Participant: Sorina Chiper (in Romanian) – organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute
Monday, February 9, 14.30 – 15.00 “The «minor» genres vs. Mainstream in contemporary Romanian literature. On esthetic trends and editorial policies.“ Moderator: Sorina Chiper. Participants: Horia Gârbea, playwright and poet, and Bogdan Hrib, editor and crime literature author (in English) – organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute
Tuesday, February 10, 12.00 – 13.00 “Book launches from the Hasefer Publishing House: The Start-up Nation: The Story of the Israeli Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, The Oppermann Brothers by Lion Feuchtwanger, The Contribution of the Jewish Community in the Development of Romania.” Participants: Ion Ştiubea, Lucian-Zeev Herşcovici, Zoltan Terner, Alexandru Marinescu, Silviu Vexler (in Romanian) – organized by Hasefer Publishing House
Tuesday, February 10, 13.00 – 14.30 “Discussing the books Religion, Politics and Myth. Texts about Mircea Eliade and Ioan Petru Culianu by Andrei Oişteanu and Mircea Eliade. From Magic to Myth by Moshe Idel”. Moderator: Adrian Cioflâncă. Participants: Andrei Oişteanu and Moshe Idel (in Romanian) – organized by the Ministry of Culture of Romania
Tuesday, February 10, 14.45 – 15.45 “Discussion about the books 100 Jewish poets translated into Romanian and The history of the Jews in Romania by T. Solomovici”. Participants: G. Mosari (president of the Association of Israeli Writers in Romanian Language – ASILR), T. Solomovici and Adrian Grauenfels (in Romanian) – organized by ASILR
Tuesday, February 10, 16.00 – 16.30 “Black and Red by Ioan T. Morar – round table and book launch”. Participants: Dr. Raphael Vago, historian; Riri Silvia Manor, writer; Ioan T. Morar, author (in Romanian) – organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute
Tuesday, February 10, 16.30 – 17.00 “Still by Riri Manor – book presentation”. Participants: Riri Silvia Manor, author; Ioan T. Morar, writer. (in Romanian) – organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute
Tuesday, February 10, 17.30 – 18.00 “The Rebel of Haifa by Bianca Marcovici – book presentation”. Participants: Bianca Marcovici. (in Romanian) – organized by ASILR
Wednesday, February 11, 13.00 – 13.45 “A world seen from Jerusalem. Other meetings at the Jerusalem Cultural Center 2007-2013 - book launch”. Participants: Costel Safirman, Moshe Idel (in Romanian) – organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute
Wednesday, February 11, 14.00 – 15.30 “Discussion about the books The America on the other side of the Pogrom by Cătălin Mihuleac, The Iassi Pogrom by Radu Ioanid and The little girl-granny and her story by Suzana Raweh and Dafna Schoenwald”. Moderator: Adrian Cioflâncă. Participants: Cătălin Mihuleac, Dafna Schoenwald and Alexandru Florian, general director of the „Elie Wiesel” Institute in Bucharest (in Romanian) – organized by the Ministry of Culture of Romania
Wednesday, February 11, 16.00 – 17.30
“Talk about the books Orient Uprising by Carmen Gavrilă and The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu.” Moderator: Adrian Cioflâncă. Participants: Carmen Gavrilă and Shani Boianjiu (in Romanian and English) – organized by the Ministry of Culture of Romania
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