Profilul lui I.L. Peretz în cultura română: de la traducere la receptare
I.L. Peretz’s Profile in Romanian Culture: from Translation to Reception

Summary/Abstract: In Romania, Yiddish classic literature is not a consistently marketed literary culture; known mainly through the massive translations from Sholem Aleichem in the first decades after the beginning of the Communist regime due to ideological purposes and to I.B. Singer’s works after the end of the Communist regime due to marketing strategy of promoting a Nobel Prize laureate on the book market, Yiddish literature remains still a field to be discovered by the Romanian public. Therefore, to the regular Romanian reader, I.L. Peretz’s work remains largely unknown and the profile of the author still to be discovered even a century after his death. If Peretz’s poetry may be rarely identified in Jewish Romanian cultural press, his highly successful plays were never translated, although they received great attention when performed in original on Romanian Yiddish stages. The current research focuses eventually on Peretz’s prose and identifies the different editions which appeared in Romanian version, analyzing the political and cultural context in which these volumes were published and the presentational discourse accompanying them for public use. Compared with the pre-WW2 period when Peretz’s work and its translation into Romanian served as a pretext for stimulating the popularization of Yiddish culture, his profile during the Communist regime was employed for ideological purposes, while downplaying the religious and ethnic aspect of his literary discourse. A victim of different ideological agendas, I.L. Peretz’s work still awaits proper reconsideration.

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