Romanian-American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts
By: eds. Cornel Sigmirean, Sonia D. Andraș, Roxana Mihaly
Publisher: Presa Universitară Clujeană
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Cluj-Napoca
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9786063719844
First sentence: In 1895, at age 21, Winston Churchill visited New York for the first time. Impressed, after his first encounters with America, he wrote to his mother, originally from the USA: “What an extraordinary people Americans are! They proved so hospitable that I felt at home in their midst, which had never happened to me before. On the other hand, the press and their money impressed me very unpleasantly...”
Description: As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania, as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately, isolated in the interwar period from the political realities on the continent, America saw how, at the end of the ‘30s, the political creation of the Paris Peace Conference collapsed, the US being invited to “abandon jazz” to enter a new war on the European continent, extended to Asia and Africa, to save civilization, alongside the UK. At the war’s end, Eastern Europe fell victim to communist totalitarianism imposed by the USSR, and its peoples were forced to abandon the Western model of civilization in favor of the communist model. However, after 45 years of communism, the American model became negotiable again as a cultural, economic, and political model for Romanians, allowing us to reconstruct essential pages in the history of interwar Romania in the context of Romanian- American relations.

This volume was supported by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding-UEFISCDI, the National Research Council - CNCS, the Ministry of Education (Romania), Project PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688, Contract 29 from 27 May 2022, title The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940). / Acest volum a fost finanțat de către Unitatea Executivă pentru Finanțarea Învățământului Superior, a Cercetării, Dezvoltării și Inovării – UEFISCDI, Consiliul Național al Cercetării Științifice (CNCS), Ministerul Educației, Proiect PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688, Contract numărul 29 din 27 mai 2022, cu titlul Etosul educației și dialogului: Negocieri culturale româno-americane (1920-1940).
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface	7; title: Contributors	10; title: Giuseppe Motta; title: Romanian Cultural Diplomacy in the United States between; title: the World Wars	15; title: Cornel Sigmirean; title: Bessarabia: Politics and Propaganda in the USA (1920–1940).; title: A Coin’s Story	38; title: Daniel Citirigă; title: From American Children to Romanian Children. Post-War Dialogue and Humanitarian Aid. Case Study Junior Red Cross; title: News Magazine	54; title: Liviu Bordaș; title: Mircea Eliade’s Interwar American Project	87; title: Truța Ferencz Iozsef; title: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Gilău Model Sanitary District. Romanian-American Relations under the Auspices of Health	102; title: Sonia D. Andraș; title: Interwar Romanian Fashion and Beauty in American Vogue	121; title: Iulian Boldea; title: Petru Comarnescu and “Homo Americanus”	157; title: Maria Boștenaru Dan; title: Escaping the NS Regime. Rudolf Fränkel, a (Jewish) German Speaking Architect Active in Berlin, Bucharest, the UK, and; title: the USA in the Interwar Era. His Works in Bucharest	165; title: Roxana Mihaly; title: The Transatlantic Artistic Route. Brâncuși’s Works from New York; title: at the Venice Biennale Thirtieth Edition	178; title: Eduard Andrei; title: Lost/Rediscovered Artworks. Values of the Romanian cultural; title: heritage at the New York World’s Fair 1939–1940	191; title: Octaviana Jianu; title: Ministry of Industry and Commerce – Commissioner General; title: for the Romanian Pavilions at the International Exhibitions in Paris (1937) and New York (1939) – 1936–1943 Fund. New Perspectives; title: on Romania’s Participation in the New York World’s Fair	225; title: Carmen Andraș; title: Soldiers of the Associated Press. Cultural Negotiations in American; title: War Correspondents’ Reports from Romania (1939–1940)	239