Schiță pentru biografia unui intelectual uitat: Moses Schwarzfeld
Short Biography of a Forgotten Intellectual: Moses Schwarzfeld

Summary/Abstract: The study „A Short Biography of a Forgotten Intellectual - Moses Schwarzfeld” is an insight into Jewish intellectual history that focuses on the biography of Moses Schwarzfeld, who testified, in his writings, the modernization of Jewish life in Romania. He was the longest-running Jewish journalist of the time, as an editor of the Egalitatea Jewish newspaper for 50 years. He was also one of the spiritual leaders of the Jews in their struggle for emancipation and cultural progress. His work, scattered in periodicals along decades, is little known, but extremely valuable, nevertheless. By connecting his articles as if they were the pieces of a puzzle, we discover a mature, knowledgeable thinker who was capable of an objective analysis, in the spirit of democratic moderation. Schwarzfeld published his memoirs in the form of a series, thus providing us with a view to a discreet biography, dedicated to the cause of Jewish emancipation, through efforts and modesty. Schwarzfeld’s writings are a true chronicle of Jewish life after 1866. The encounter with his biography and writings is an encounter with a whole age of which we know very little, today.

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