CONTRIBUŢII ALE EVREILOR DIN MARAMUREŞ ÎN DOMENIUL ARTISTIC
CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE ARTS OF THE JEWS FROM MARAMUREȘ

Summary/Abstract: Contributions in the Arts of the Jews from Maramureș. The present study is a segment of an oral history research based on interviews of Jews and Christians, born or having lived most of their lives in the current county of Maramureș. The research was eventually shaped in the PhD thesis called “The Image of Jews from Maramureș in the collective Memory” which I defended in front of an Academic Commission on the 29th of March 2013. I have tried to present the various ways related to art (in the large conception) that the Jews are still present in the collective memory of the people from Maramureș. Their are represented in the mural painting of the churches as outsiders and infidels, this being one of the negative traits that was underline by the natives. But the Christians also remember the contributions of the Jews as painters, musicians, actors. The Jewish artists concured to the rise of the cultural life in towns such Sighet or Baia Mare, going as far as becoming known worldwide. (The Painting School of Baia Mare, Joseph Szigeti). The negative and the positive traces are always twisting and combining and all this attributes must be considered as another dimension of the relations between Jews and Christians that come to complete the image of the Jews from Maramureș reflected in the memory of the contemporans.

• Details
• Contents