Bucureștiul interbelic, centru emergent de cultură idiș
Interwar Bucharest, an Emerging Center of Yiddish Culture

Summary/Abstract: The emergence of a new Yiddish cultural center in Bucharest, the Capital of Greater Romania, far away from traditional Yiddish centers such as Cernăuți or Chișinău and even the Moldavian capital, Iaşi, came as an unexpected development in socio-cultural terms, but it nevertheless represented a significant element for Yiddish culture in Romania. Attracted by the capital of the newly unified state and a city with a significant Jewish population, many Yiddish language intellectuals from the newly attached provinces, especially some of the most significant writers, move here shortly before, but especially after the end of World War I. They were at the center of Yiddish theatre, literary life and press during the interwar period while older centers such as Iași, Cernăuți, Chișinău started to fade away, slowly becoming part of the new periphery after being centers of Yiddish culture on the map of the Eastern European Yiddishland for centuries. The current article aims to explain how this development took place and which were the determining factors.

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