THREE CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN JEWISH ESSAYISTS: LEON VOLOVICI, ANDREI OIȘTEANU, ANDREI CORNEA
THREE CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN JEWISH ESSAYISTS: LEON VOLOVICI, ANDREI OIȘTEANU, ANDREI CORNEA

Summary/Abstract: Jewish writer from Romania, Leon Volovici proves, in his books, a demand for clarification of controversial issues, as the foundations of the most stringent writing. An intellectual of great stature and scope, Leon Volovici has distinguished himself as a literary historian with a strong ethical vocation, through an approach of probity and concern for the foundations of truth. Andrei Oișteanu is one of the most reputed contemporary Romanian intellectuals, specialized in cultural anthropology, ethnic imagology and history of religions. He is a Jewish intellectual of the rare lineage of demanding and refined scholars, which Romanian culture urgently needs in order to re-examine its stereotypes and complexes. With an inexhaustible publicistic verve and an impeccable logical disposition, Andrei Cornea exposes, in the subtext or in the text of his books, crucial, defining ideas for the world we live in, for the dialogue with the past or for the continuous confrontation with a decentralized present.

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