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

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

merchants and the poor

Cooking alla Giudia is the ultimate tribute to the wonderfully rich

fits rounds and square Matzohs

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