Evrei români în avangarda internaţională
Romanian Jews in International Avant-Garde

Summary/Abstract: Obviously, the avant-garde literature published in Romania between the two World Wars marked a radical cosmopolitan trend in the context of a strong nationalism in all public domains. On one hand, the Romanian avant-garde poetry, cultivated mainly by Jewish authors such as Tristan Tzara, B. Fundoianu (Benjamin Fondane), Ilarie Voronca, Mihail Cosma (Claude Sernet), Sașa Pană, Gherasim Luca, and Paul Păun, among others, had as main model not the national literary tradition, but the most radical strains of European modernism, such as Italian and Russian Futurism, and French Dadaism and Surrealism. On the other hand, these authors had a decisive contribution to the enrichment of these directions, and even proposed sometimes new formulas by which they „internationalized” Romanian literature, connecting it to sur- and trans-national movements and trends.

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