I’m ashamed to be sad: Mihail Sebastian’s journal as lived history

Titlu: I’m ashamed to be sad: Mihail Sebastian’s journal as lived history

Autor: Emanuel-Marius Grec

Cuvant inainte: Cristina A. Bejan

Dată publicare: Noiembrie, 2024

Pagini: 130

ISBN 978-973-664-981-3

DESPRE CARTE:

Written between 1935 and 1944, Mihail Sebastian’s Journal was published for the first time in 1996. In it, we find not only the thoughts of one of the greatest writers of Romanian literature but also the experiences, desires, sentiments, and memories of an identity-seeking man, a Jewish-Romanian writer of exceptional talent and clarity of mind. The Journal is not a simple diary but rather the testament of an era: the Holocaust persecution and crimes, a portal into policies of discrimination, as well as the distinctiveness of survival. In this book, we pay homage to Mihail Sebastian’s life, work, and thoughts, and we look at the Journal through an academic lens, trying to deconstruct his Journal as a form of lived history and an exceptional literary work.

DESPRE AUTOR:

Emanuel Marius Grec is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Heidelberg. He is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the Fondation pour la Memoir de la Shoah in Paris. Emanuel was Saul Kagan Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies at Claims Conference from September 2021 to August 2023. He is currently working on his dissertation titled “The Perpetrators of the Odessa Massacre: War-Crimes Trials in Postwar Romania (1944-1948)”.

He earned a B.A. in History from Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad in 2013, an M.A. in Comparative History from Central European University in Budapest (2016), and an M.A. in Jewish Civilizations from the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien in Heidelberg (2019). He also obtained a fellowship from Central European University in 2014 for his MA work and a research fellowship from Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden. Additionally, he is the recipient of two consecutive research fellowships from Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES) in Germany, both for his MA (until 2019) and PhD (until 2021), as well as the Yad Vashem Scholarship for Doctoral Students from the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union in 2022. Emanuel won the Ratiu History Prize from the Ratiu Foundation and the Ratiu Center for Democracy in 2020.