Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest by Alexandra Chiriac Holocaust History But when the struggles of

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Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest by Alexandra Chiriac Holocaust History But when the struggles ofThis 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