Mihail Sebastian, sau, Ironia unui destin
A detailed analysis of the life and work of the Romanian-Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945). His novel "De două mii de ani" ["For Two Thousand Years"] (1934), on the "Jewish problem" in Romania in the interwar period, reflects antisemitism in student and intellectual circles and reactions of Jewish intellectuals. Ironically, the book appeared with a preface by Sebastian's professor and patron Nae Ionescu who had become an antisemite, justifying antisemitism philosophically and theologically. The book and preface provoked a violent press campaign, with strong antisemitic overtones. Sebastian answered these attacks in an essay "Cum am devenit huligan" ["How I Became a Hooligan"] (1935). (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, Romanian, 1986
Editura Minerva, București, 1986