The Autobiography of a Romanian-American Dream: They Crossed Mountains and Oceans (1947) by Anișoara Stan
The Autobiography of a Romanian-American Dream: They Crossed Mountains and Oceans (1947) by Anișoara Stan

Summary/Abstract: Aniºoara Stan’s autobiography They Crossed Mountains and Oceans (1947) depicts her RomanianAmerican experience in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. Stan (1902–1954) describes her assiduous endeavors to showcase the Romanian folk art across her adopted country as a way of promoting the cultural heritage of first-generation Romanian-American immigrants and of fostering ethnic pride in their descendants. Moreover, her goal was to create an ethnographic museum of folk art in order to emphasize the valuable contribution of immigrants to American culture. This article examines Stan’s autobiography with a view to uncovering the ways in which she strove to create ethnic and cultural bridges between Romania and the United States through Romanian folk art, thus contributing significantly to the enrichment of the history of the Romanian-American immigration in the first part of the twentieth century.

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