Codrescu, Andrei
The Exquisite Corpse
http://www.corpse.org/
A journal of arts, letters, and literature published by Romanian American poet,
essayist, and NPR commentator, Andrei Codrescu.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Frommers.com
Romania
http://www.frommers.com/
destinations/romania/
Commercial travel site to help you plan a vacation to Romania. The
site features maps, itineraries, background, and information about
food and lodging. Frommers is not a
budget site, but it lists some value accomodations.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Library of Congress
Portals to the World -- Romania
http://www.loc.gov
/rr/international
/european/romania
/ro.html
A meta site with facts, figures, and information about Romania sorted by subject. The site was last revised August 21, 2009.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Lonely Planet Guides
Romania Travel Information and Travel Guide
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
romania
Background and practical information and basics to help you plan a budget trip to Romania. For more in depth
coverage, you may want to buy the book, Romania & Moldova.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
New York Times
Romania Travel Guide
http://travel.nytimes.com
/travel/guides/europe
/romania/overview.html
This site offers basic travel information plus articles from the New York Times on Romanian
travel and culture.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
United States Central Intelligence Agency.
CIA World Factbook -- Romania
https://www.cia.gov
/library/publications
/the-world-factbook/geos
/ro.html
Facts, figures, and a brief history of Romania. The map is
readable and comprehensible. Note: the site is written by the
US government and may include possible bias.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
United States Department of State.
Background Notes -- Romania
http://www.state.gov/
r/pa/ei/bgn/35722.htm
Offers, background, facts, a map, and recent history of Romania. This
is a US government web site, so the information may come with some bias.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
This display features books, media, web sites, musical scores, and artifacts in honor of the Georgia Perimeter College's (Now Perimeter College at Georgia State University) Writers' Guild's reading of Romanian literary works in translation in April of 2010.
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Art as Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe.
New York: Universe Books, 1992.
Call Number: DK50 .A78 1992
Published in connection with a traveling exhibition, this book includes over
100 political posters mostly from 1989 and 1990. As rigid totalitarian controls
crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe, the poster became a
powerful vehicle for expression of long-suppressed ideas and new aspirations.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Astrachan, Samuel.
Malaparte in Jassy.
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1989.
Call Number: PS3551.S7 M35 1989
Curzio Malaparte, Italian journalist, political activist, enfant terrible,
and man of the world finds himself stranded in Jassy, Romania during
World War II. He has fled the Russians and the Germans. He is stricken
with PTSD. Will he survive, mentally and physically intact? What
happens to a man who witnesses first hand the horrors of World War II?
Do scars and suffering always make us stronger?
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Bartok, Bela.
Bear Dance for Piano Solo.
New York: Kalmus, [n.d.]
Call Number: Musical Score M30.B37 B4
This is a score arranged for solo piano, for a work that Bartok based on a Romanian folk dance.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Bartok, Bela.
Divertimento Sz 113.
Deutsche Graamophon, 1986.
Call Number: CD MR2 .B285 Di4S3
A pleasant work for strings, a work based on
Romanian dances, and a divertimento by Leos Janacek are all part of this classical CD.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Bartok, Bela.
Erdelyi Tancok.
Source Info: Budapest, Hungary: Denemukiado Valladat, 1964.
Call Number: Musical Score M1060.B28 D3 1964
Bartok shows his pride in his homeland, by a classical piece
inspired by dances from the land of Dracula. This is a musical score.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Bartok, Bela.
Ket Roman Tanc.
Budapest, Hungary: Zenemukiado, 1965.
Call Number: Musical Score M1060 . B28 op.8a W4 1965
This musical score features two Romanian folk dance inspired works for piano.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Bartok, Bela.
2 Roumanian Dances for Piano Solo.
New York: E. F. Kalmus, [n.d].
Call Number: Musical Score M30.B37 R8
This is a piano score for two works by Bartok, based on folk dances of Romania.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Boia, Lucian.
Romania: Borderland of Europe.
London: Reaktion, 2001.
Call Number: DR217 .B645 2001
Romania occupies a unique position on the map of Eastern Europe.
It is a country that presents many paradoxes. In this book the preeminent
Romanian historian Lucian Boia examines his native land’s development from the
Middle Ages to modern times, delineating its culture,
history, language, politics and ethnic identity.
Source:
http://www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk
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Farnoaga, Georgiana and Sharon King eds.
The Phantom church and Other Stories from Romania.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
Call Number: PC871.E8 P48 1996
A splendid collection of short fiction, now in a first-time
English translation, from the perpetually beleaguered little
country whose writers have long struggled against political
repression and censorship, most notably during
the Stalinist regime and recently under Ceausescu.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Gallagher, Tom.
Romania After Ceausescu: The Politics of Intolerance.
Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.
Call Number: DR268 .G35 1995
This, the first comprehensive first-hand account of
post-1989 Romania, shows how ex-communist officials
have used nationalism to delay the country's passage
from a closed to an open political system.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Gerolymatos, Andre.
The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution, and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond.
New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Call Number: DR36 .G39 2002
Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia. Today's headlines could have
been written in the 1800s or in the 1400s. Conflict has
raged unabated in the Balkans for hundreds of years
and always, writes historian André Gerolymatos, over
the same tired issues: nationalism and religion.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Halsey, Stevens.
Romanian Dance.
Champaign, IL: Helios, 1964.
Call Number: Musical Score M233.S835 R6
This is a musical score for Halsey's Romanian dance inspired work for piano and strings.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Kaplan, Robert D.
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History.
New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Call Number: DR16 .K36 1994
A history of the Balkan Peninsula explores the region’s
political, social, religious, and economic past in order to understand
the nature of the recently rekindled, centuries-old blood feuds
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Kaplan, Robert D.
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.
New York: Random House, 2000.
Call Number: DR16 .K364 2000
Eastward to Tartary is a fascinating exploration of places
Kaplan has not written about in depth before: "Third World Europe" (Romania and Bulgaria),
Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and the confusing conglomeration of countries and peoples in the Caucasus.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Kenney, Patdraic.
The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe since 1989.
New York: Zed Books, 2006.
Call Number: DJK51 .K464 2006
The Burdens of Freedom is a history of fifteen countries -- some newly-created --
as they make their way from communism to the present day. For
some, the story ends happily, with triumphant entry into the European Union in 2004.
Others are caught in limbo, destroyed by nationalist politics, war,
and genocide, or crippled by corrupt political practices.
Source:
http://www.palgrave-usa.com
Kerrick, Donald.
Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies).
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Call Number: Ref DX115 .K46 2007
There are some seven million gypsies in Europe, an
often mythologized people in the past. But now they
represent a new political force, both in eastern
Europe and as a new westward migration begins.
The Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) provides
a wealth of definite, factual information about this
typically hidden people, and their unique culture.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Mazower, Mark.
The Balkans: A Short History.
New York: Modern Library, 2000.
Call Number: DR36 .M39 2000
Mazower, professor of history at Princeton and
author of Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century,
has written a concise history of Europe's troubled southeastern
corner that is both sympathetic to the region's
never-ending struggle for identity and freedom
from invaders and critical of its inhabitants' recurring
failure to reconcile the religious and cultural differences
imposed on them by the powers of the West and the East.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
McNally, Raymond T. and Radu Florescu.
In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Call Number: DR240.5.V553 M36 1994
McNally and Florescu, the authors of several
Dracula-related titles, here trace the history of
Vlad Tepes, a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler, the murderous
Romanian prince upon whom Bram Stoker
based his infamous blood-drinking count.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
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Rebreanu, Liviu.
Ion.
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967.
Call Number: PC839.R4 I623
The novel, Ion, introduces us in the life of the
paesants and intellectuals of Transylvania before the war.
The action takes place in Pripas village and in
the little town Amaradia.
Source:
http://www.goodreads.com
Rennon, Rosemary K.
Language and Travel Guide to Romania.
New York: Hippocrene Books, 2007.
Call Number: DR204.5 .R39 2007
Rosemary Rennon discovered Romania in 1993 when she went
hunting for the small village where her father was born. She
was captivated by its scenery and by the
simplicity of a country just awakening from its long communist nightmare.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Romania & Moldova
Hawthorn, British Columbia: Lonely Planet Publications, 1998.
Call Number: DR204.5 .R526
Discover the Wild West of Eastern Europe, where untouched
Medieval villages, vampire legends, dramatic peaks and
unspoiled forests await you. This indispensable guide helps
you explore these diverse, culturally rich countries.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Romanian.
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2005.
Call Number: CD PC639.5.E5 R52 2005
Learn Romanian the way you learned English with the Pimsleur method that combines grammar with convesration.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Steinberg Jacob. ed.
Introduction to Rumanian Literature.
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1966.
Call Number: PC871.E8 S8
These selections, each with its own vision of life, reflect in
artistic form, landscapes, cahracters, and customs
bearing th specific traits of life led by the
Romanian people, a people settled along the northern
bank of the Danube and astride the mountain
ranges of the Carpathians. The univeral significance
of their contribution resides in the authenticity
of the life they have endeavored to render.
Source: Botez, Demonstene. "Forward." Introduction to Rumanian
Literature. Ed. Jacob Steinberg. New York: Twayne Publshers, 1966. ix-xiv. Print.
Youth Without Youth.
Prod. Francis Ford Coppola. Sony, 2008.
Call Number: DVD PN1997.2 .Y78 2008
Romania is on the brink of war with Germany and
linguistics professor Dominic Matei has little left to live
for. On Easter Day 1938, he crosses the street and is
struck by a bolt of lightning. Badly burned and
nearly dead, he amazes the doctors by healing in only
a short time. He defies science and ages
in reverse from 70 to 40. There’s seemingly no limit
to the wonder and love he can find in his new youth.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
The book jacket images for Malaparte in Jassy and for Ion are both entirely my artistic creation. For the background of Malaparte in Jassy's book cover I used this image by Andrei Stroe. The image on the "cover" of Ion is based on this photo by "TKSDesign." Both images are available under a Creative Commons License.
