Born in Romania in 1907, Mihail Sebastian worked as a lawyer and writer until anti-Semitic legislation forced him to abandon his public career. Having survived the war and the Holocaust, he was killed in a road accident in 1945. His long-lost diary, Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years, was published in the late 1990s.
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This literary masterpiece revives the ideological debates of the interwar period through the journal of a Romanian Jewish student caught between anti-Semitism and Zionism. Although he endures persistent threats just to attend lectures, he feels disconnect... SEE MORE