A Man of Ideas: Dr. Leon Volovici (1938-2011)
A Man of Ideas: Dr. Leon Volovici (1938-2011)
Author(s): Camelia Crăciun Subject(s): History
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studierea Holocaustului din Romania ELIE WIESEL
Keywords: double identity; intellectuals; Iaşi; Jerusalem; Jewish Romanian history
Summary/Abstract: The article briefly presents the work of the late Dr. Leon Volovici, focusing on his life-long interest in Jewish Romanian intellectual history and on his concept of “double cultural rooting”. Starting from the theme of his only biographical work, De la Iaşi la Ierusalim şi înapoi (From Iaşi to Jerusalem and back), the text aims at connecting Dr. Volovici’s personal experience of “living between spaces” and traveling permanently between Romania and Israel with his research interest in the Romanian-Jewish intellectual relation - ships. The article eventually underlines Leon Volovici’s intellectual legacy.
Journal: Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări
- Issue Year: IV/2012
- Issue No: 05
- Page Range: 230-234
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
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