Jewish Identities In Interwar Bucovina
There were Jews in Bucovina even before its existence as a separate province. As early as the 18th century, some Jewish families in the German area looked for a better life in this northern part of Moldavia, which subsequently became Bucovina. Here they were given more protection
Deţinuţii români din Polonia pot citi regulat cărţi şi reviste din biblioteca ICR - Varşovia
Prin noul program al ICR-Varşovia, numit „Biblioteca volantă, cetăţenii români aflaţi în detenţie în Polonia au acces, regulat, la fondul de publicaţii al Institutului Toate cheltuielile de distribuţie tur-retur a publicaţiilor vor fi acoperite de Institut,
Forumul literaturii Central Europene la Budapesta
Institutul Cultural Român la Budapesta, în colaborare cu Institutul Cultural Bulgar, Centrul Ceh, Institutul Polonez, Institutul Slovac şi Universitatea Central Europeană organizează vineri 26 septembrie 2008 de la ora 10. 00 pe tot parcursul zilei, în sala Auditorium
Religious Conversion In 19th Century Moldavia
The baptized JewIn the late 1990s I had planned to include at the end of my book The Imaginary Jew in Romanian Culture a chapter entitled The Baptized Jew. As I worked on this subject I realized that it had been extensively discussed by the historian Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu
Two People Went Down The Chimney In A House
excerpt Two people went down the chimney in a house. Only one of them got his face dirty with soot. The dirty one looked at the clean one and didn't imagine that he might look different, so he didn't wash the soot away. The clean one, on the other hand, saw the
The Images Of The Nations. Ethnic And Ethic Characteristics
* The boom of geographic discoveries and trading expeditions that began on the eve of the Renaissance and continued throughout that era developed a new taste for describing remote, if not downright imaginary, countries and peoples. Before being discovered, the savage was
Khazar Jews. Romanian History And Ethnography
excerpts Motto: It is known that, when a people is about to disappear, first its high society disappears, and with it the literature. (Milorad Pavici, The Khazar Dictionary) Lazar Saineanu and his studies in folklore. An ethnographic controversyLazar Saineanu was a very
The Contribution Of Judaism
excerpts Beyond any currents, interpretations and influences, Judaism brought at least three fundamental principles to the basis of European culture: the secularization of the eternal, the ennoblement of matter through spirit, and the consideration of the human being as
The Jews
In the nineteenth century, and also in the inner-war period, Romania had one of Europe's largest Jewish communities. Between the wars, its Jewish population was the third largest in Europe both in absolute terms (after Poland and the USSR) and as a proportion of the
Life Stories Of The Italians From Dobrogea
Who can even imagine nowadays that more than a century ago, Romania, going through a period of economic expansion, was a sort of terra promessa on which the seasonal workers relied in order to make money and on which the immigrants from western countries relied in order
Juliet
Eniko Szilagyi in Juliet, directed by Tompa GaborEniko Szilagyi in Juliet, directed by Tompa Gabor at the Hungarian State Theater in Clujexcerpt An open space without setting, the scenic box in its genuine realism. To the right a bed (straw, covered with a blanket), a worn-out
Zorro In The Carpathians
When the Hungarians conquered Transylvania, several Romanian noblemen decided to adopt Hungarian language and culture, in order to get prominent positions in the establishment. The most famous is, of course, Hunyady János, called, in Romanian, Iancu de Hunedoara. He eventually