Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest by Alexandra Chiriac Holocaust History and the 1953 translation by

and the 1953 translation by fellow Nobel laureate Saul Bellow

from the bigotry of a Christian majority to the tensions among Jews of different origins and beliefs

Praised for its depiction of how two entirely different cultures could coexist in a symbiotic relationship

But when the struggles of the prison library — between life and death

almost all in the Pale of Settlement

Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest by Alexandra Chiriac Holocaust History and the 1953 translation byThis volume examines the reach of modernism in design and performance in interwar Romania. It follows the transnational trajectories of several remarkable Jewish avant garde artists, actors, and directors based in Bucharest, the countrys capital, in the 1920s and 1930s. The first part of the book recovers the history of Bucharests first modern design institution and investigates its links with German design and the Bauhaus. The second half focuses on