I’m
at the fine-tuning stage of the guide – giving me the freedom to surf some of
the links I had added to the text which lead to others I had not had the chance
to explore. For example some of the book references in a discussion thread
about Romanian literature .
But
it was the back issues of the francophone bimonthly Regard which led me via an interview to what seems (probably
wrongly) to be a typically surreal bit of recent writing by a young historian
Choosing your Ancestors - an imaginary genealogical journey to Romanian Boyars.(2013)
If you scroll further down the link(and have automatic translate) you will see
that the launch (last August) was kicked off by Romania’s two greatest historians
- Lucian Boia (whose family name google automatic magnificently and variously translates
as “pulveriser” or “paprika”!) and Neagu Djuvara
It
was author Filip Lucian-Iorga’s well-connected website which led to me the
tremendous photo archives Costica Acsinte Archive celebrating the work of a man born in 1897 who was a war photographer in the
First World War and then set up shop in the town of Slobozia about 70 kms east
of Bucharest.
The
site is a unique record of life in those times – and encourages readers to
write stories around particular photos!!
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