Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years (Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Me)

Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life a Jew’s diary a reader’s notebook a music-lover’s journal. Despite the pressure of hatred and horror in the “huge anti-Semitic factory” that was Romania in the years of World War II his writing maintains the grace of its perceptive and luminous intelligence. The legacy of a journalist novelist and playwright Sebastian’s Journal stands as one of the most important human and literary documents of the climate that preceded the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.