"They Live for me", the series of photographs by Cristian Stan is reviewed in this article signed by Eugen Radescu
More...Keywords: Biserica Romana Unita (BRU);
More...Keywords: pottery; Starčevo-Criş culture; early Neolithic; Cioara
The present study shows the results obtained after analyzing the Early Neolithic pottery discovered at Săliştea/Cioara (Alba County). The study consisted in two approaches: a typological one, codified descriptions of vessel’s shape and ornaments and the fabrication method. The results were also compared to similar data for Starčevo-Criş pottery from: Miercurea Sibiului-Petriş (Sibiu County), Cerişor-Peştera Cauce (Hunedoara County), Iosaş-Anele (Arad County), Şeuşa-La cărarea morii (Alba County), Turdaş-Luncă (Hunedoara County), Cristian I (Sibiu County).
More...Keywords: epigraphic writing; Romanesque majuscule; gothic majuscule; gothic minuscule; early humanistic minuscule;
The author brings a welcomed overview regarding the epigraphic writing in Transylvania from the 14th to the 16th century, with a detailed approach on the historical context and the morphology of these monumental scripts.
More...Keywords: collection; written press; newspaper; magazines; old magazines; newspapers; electronic magazines; electronic newspapers
Bălţi university library collections are held about 3200 titles of magazines in 161 793 copies. Annual subscriptions are over 190 magazine and newspaper titles according to the faculties profile and adjacent areas, published in Moldova, Roma-nia, Russia, Ukraine, France, and USA. 41 titles in 850 copies of magazines is the collection of rare documents from the nineteenth century, early twentieth century. The magazines and newspapers are available on the Library website (http://libruniv.usarb.md) being an opportunity and advantageous for all users. Also, on the Web page can be accessed and viewed more than 58 214 on-line periodicals, offered by 43 scientific databases, which are available through the Library Consortium Electronic Resources for Moldova (REM). The global provider EBSCOhost offers 18 200 on-line magazines
More...Keywords: combaterea terorismului; contra-terorism; anti-terorism; prevenirea terorismului; SRI
Combating and countering terrorism must first respect the human rights and the fundamental liberties. The United Nations Strategy for Combating Terrorism - is the first framework document collectively agreed globally which speaks of terrorism. The strategy, by its action plan that has four thematic pillars, offers concrete steps for the Member States to take individually and collectively: identifying the conditions that lead to the spreading of terrorism, preventing and combating terrorism and strengthening the capacity of the States in this respect, to work within the UN system. To counteract terrorism it is necessary to involve all the states, intensifying their collaboration, especially for the exchange of information, settling and neutralizing the existing terrorist organizations.
More...Keywords: ARO; Ceauşescu; Car; Chausson; Communism; Dacia; FIAT; France; Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej; Italy; Renault; Romania; Tractor
Due to the fact that Romania had had a very poor industry in the early ’50s, Romanian authorities followed the advice of Soviet politicians for acquiring foreign manufacturing licenses. These were subsequently used in the new factories built in the country. In this study, we aim to turn some new information to account. This information is found in the United States and refers to the development of Romanian industry of tractors and vehicles, as a result of cooperation of Romania with Chausson, FIAT, and Renault companies. We also aim to present the conclusions on the efficiency of some manufacturing licenses in Romania.
More...Keywords: World War I; Romania; Bârlad; The Great Romanian General Quarter; French Military Mission in Romania
During the retreat and refuge to Moldavia, numerous people, political and cultural personalities and various institutions took shelter in Bârlad, as well as in other Moldavian towns. For a short period (from November 1916 to March 1917) the importance of the town was greater than its size – it became a military base and political center, regarded as a real military capital of the unoccupied Romania. Here were found the headquarters of the Great Romanian General Quarter and its Russian correspondent for the troops sent to the Romanian front, as well as the Great Royal Quarter (located in Zorleni, on the private property of King Ferdinand) and the French Military Mission coordinated by General Henri Bethelot. Bârlad also hosted other essential institutions such as The General Quarter of the Fourth Russian Army, The First Romanian Army Command, hospitals, military schools, various services, and institutions.
More...Keywords: literary canon; literary criticism; Communism; Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej; Romania
As an instrument of preserving the cultural memory of a community, the literary canon is usually a highly stable structure in its core elements. However, with the advent of the Communist regime after the Second World War, the Romanian literary canon underwent a drastic process of reconstruction. As early as the 1940s, what was euphemistically dubbed “revisiting our cultural heritage” actually equated to a radical revision—a purge of the literary canon through the filter of Marxism-Leninism. Not only writers of literature, but literary critics themselves were subjected to this process. In this paper, I aim to discuss the role played by literary critics active during Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej’s regime in rehabilitating their predecessors. My focus will be on the press debate surrounding Titu Maiorescu’s rehabilitation in 1963.
More...Keywords: Ciprian Porumbescu; Opereta Crai nou; Gherase Dendrino; Opereta Lăsați-mă să cânt;
Creațiile muzical-teatrale din secolul al XIX-lea, propagate de către trupele italiene, franceze și germane, au constituit o sursă de inspirație pentru compozitorii români. Aceștia vor crea genuri de teatru muzical la modă, în limba română, cu scop de divertisment. În creionarea genului de operetă se vor situa lucrările poziționate la granița dintre vodevil și genul liric, reprezentate de compozițiile lui Alexandru Flechtenmacher, Eduard Wachmann, Eduard Caudella. În această atmosferă culturală a vremii, muzicianul patriot Ciprian Porumbescu (1853-1883), va găsi cadrul prielnic pentru a pune în practică o mai veche dorință artistică: realizarea unei operete, după succesul creațiilor sale umoristice muzical-teatrale Cisla și Candidatul Linte. Personalitate multivalentă, iubitor de folclor și de neam, unul dintre fondatorii școlii muzicale naționale, Ciprian Porumbescu a contribuit la definirea autenticității și a identității limbajului componistic românesc prin vasta sa creație și prin compunerea primei operete românești culte Crai Nou (1882). Drept omagiu, la centenarul de la nașterea sa, creatorul operetei Crai Nou devine protagonistul operetei Lăsați-mă să cânt! (1954) de Gherase Dendrino, în care este prezentată perioada punerii în scenă a lucrării muzical-dramatice porumbesciene. Repere ale scenei lirice românești, din trecutul și prezentul artistic, Crai Nou și Lăsați-mă să cânt au fost și rămân spectacole muzicale interpretate și receptate cu interes și entuziasm.
More...Keywords: Petru Ciompoeșu; Cezar Paul-Bădescu; Traian Ștef; Robert Lazu Kmita; Andrei Țurcanu; Virgil Rațiu; Teodora Coman; Luca Ștefan Ouatu;
A collection of book reviews.
More...Keywords: complacency; women; moral conscience and reasoning; memory of the communist past; poetics of reading;
This article offers a triangular reading of a contemporary Romanian novel, namely Simona Sora’s Complaisance. Ascension in the orthopaedics ward/A guest for life (2020), in the frame of epistemological pluralism. To this end, each of the three co-authors opted for different epistemological perspectives, spanning memory studies, ethics, and literary aesthetics. In the first section, Simona Mitroiu uses a “memory-work method” and applying narrative analysis she reads Sora’s novel in relation to several cultural productions dealing with Romanian women’s experience in relationships of power. In the same context-dependent framework, Laura Pricop embraces, in the second section, an ethical perspective and retraces the steps taken by a woman to free herself from a conscience educated in the spirit of complaisance and obedience under the communist regime. Finally, Andreea Mironescu deciphers in Sora’s novel the allegorisation of two antagonic, although co-existent, ways of reading and interpreting, arguing that such antagonism between a suspicious and affective reading has a wide cultural relevance, especially on how we read the past. The three analyses make a stronger case for how epistemological pluralism works in practice.
More...Keywords: Romanian postwar culture; socialist realism; cultural pseudo- liberalization of the mid-1960s; Romanian cultural institutions;
The insertion of the Soviet models in Romanian culture after the Second World War and the imposition of socialist realism as a unique method of creation at the end of 1947 were outclassed in the mid-1960s, when an attempt was made by artists and writers to revalue modernity and creative integrity. At the literary-artistic level there is an attempt to partially recover the old cultural elite (which had survived and been marginalized in the first two decades of communism), reconnecting to the European cultural trend, the links being forcibly and unhappily broken in the postwar years. The phenomenon is noticeable at the level of Romanian journalism, literary creation (where poetry successfully overcomes the phase of militant poem, agitprop poetry, prose is emancipated from the formula of „critical realism”, class pamphlet, canon based on antinomy, drama from the bodice of proletarian works, which thematically proposed the rural world marked by the new breath of agrarian reform and collectivization or the proletarian universe, necessarily transposing everyday realities and literary criticism from the constraints of socialist realism, which promoted the absolute truth of the ideological message, imposing itself now the principle of the variety of the literary meaning, the reinterpretations of the classics exceeding the deterministic-historical criterion and the analysis of the ideology of the work), theatrical movement (which knows the phenomenon of reteatralization and internationalization), highlighting the attempts to connect the Romanian cultural process to the western European evolutions.
More...Keywords: the medieval town Bârlad; XV-XVIII centuries; the trade; customs point;
The medieval town Bârlad fair has been known to have an ascendant evolution from the beginning of the reign of princeps Alexandru cel Bun and, especially, under Ştefan cel Mare, Petru Rareş, Ieremia Movilă and Vasile Lupu, in terms of demographic, economic, urban, but also commercially. Located on the lower valley of the Bârlad River and at the crossroads of the commercial roads connecting the cities of the Baltic Sea (in the Canezate of Halici) with the Danube and the Black Sea, the town Bârlad fair has also seen growth and decline, greatness and decay. The medieval town Bârlad met in the XV-XVIII centuries an important and efficient trade activity, due to its age and political and economic importance in the country of Moldova, but also because of its strategic location on the international trade road linking the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, meaning Poland by the Ottoman Empire.
More...Keywords: philosophy; ethics; morality;
Review of: Cristian Iftode, "Viața bună. O introducere în etică", București, Editura Trei, 2021, 543 p.
More...Keywords: Romania; elites; post 1989; identity;
As opposed to the tension found in Transylvania (due to the Romanian-Magyar relations), in the land of Dobruja, throughout its entire known history, there was no recorded conflict with inter-ethnic or inter-confessional tensions as causes. Romanian intellectual (cultural) elites often take pride in this example of absolute tolerance, even in the absence of a “social contract” that would intercede between ethnical minorities the socioeconomic or cultural-religious reports. In other words, Romania holds the key to the puzzle that the EU is trying to solve for decades: a cultural model, perfectly functional, based on the slogan “Unity in diversity”.
More...Keywords: inter-ethnic relations; Romanians; Hungarians; the Hungarian Autonomons Region;
The present article analyzes the state of inter-ethnic relations among the intellectuals of the Hungarian Autonomous Region (in the localities of the current Covasna and Harghita counties). In the beginning, data are presented regarding the ethnic and confessional structure of the communities in the reference period. Then the inter-ethnic relations between Romanian and Hungarian intellectuals are analyzed, differentiated into the main socio-professional categories: political leaders, state officials, teachers, doctors, engineers, priests, etc. The article shows the negative aspects of the inter-ethnic relations between the few Romanian intellectuals left in the area and their Hungarian colleagues, but also moments of “normality”. At the same time, the difference between the period 1952–1960, when the districts of Tg. Secuiesc and Sf. Gheorghe belonged to the Hungarian Autonomous Region from 1960 to 1968, when the two districts were part of the Stalin Region and Brașov, respectively.
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