Barbu Lăzăreanu

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Barbu Lăzăreanu
Lăzăreanu ca. 1950.jpg
Lăzăreanu in a 1950s photograph
Born Avram "Bubi" Lazarovici
(1881-10-05)October 5, 1881
Botoșani, Kingdom of Romania
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Other names Barbou Lazareano, Barbu Lăzărescu, Bélé
Academic background
School or tradition Marxist historiography
Marxist literary criticism
Academic work
Main interests Romanian literature, Romanian folklore, historical linguistics, phonoaesthetics, labor history, history of medicine

Barbu Lăzăreanu (born Avram Lazarovici,[1] also known as Barbou Lazareano[2] or Barbu Lăzărescu;[3] October 5, 1881 – January 19, 1957) was a Romanian literary historian, bibliographer, and left-wing activist. Of Romanian Jewish background, he became noted for both his social criticism and his lyrical pieces while still in high school. His socialist-and-anarchist advocacy made him a target of the conservative establishment, which expelled him from the country in 1907. Lăzăreanu spent five years studying in France, then returned to Romania as a publicist, columnist, and workers' educator. He earned the reputation of a highly focused literary researcher and biographer, noted as the editor of works by Ion Luca Caragiale and Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea.

By 1933, Lăzăreanu was a public critic of fascism, a fact which contributed to his persecution by the antisemitic far-right in the 1940s. Having narrowly escaped a deportation to Transnistria and a likely death in 1942, he returned to public life after the 1944 Coup and subsequent democratization. He rose to prominence post-1948, under the Romanian communist regime, first as a rector of Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy, then as a member of the Romanian Academy and its Presidium. Lăzăreanu spent his final decade as a decorated and lionized writer and political forerunner of the regime.

Biography

Early life and 1907 deportation

The future author, primarily known in his early years as "Bubi" Lazarovici,[4] was born in Botoșani as the son of Herschel Lazarovici.[1] He attended primary school and A. T. Laurian High School in his native town,[1] while becoming acquainted with Marxism through his perusing of Contemporanul review and, as noted by his official obituary of 1957, making a name for himself as a "propagandist of such ideas."[5] In early 1899, the Laurian High School expelled him for his socialist agitation.[1][6]

Having debuted as a poet in his own magazine, Victor Hugo,[1] and as a satirist in the paper Zeflemeaua,[7][8] young Lăzăreanu had his work taken up in the left-wing reviews România Muncitoare and Viitorul Social,[5] and in Barbu Nemțeanu's Pagini Libere.[9] After Victor Hugo, he persisted in trying to establish a lasting newspaper of his own, putting out Gândul ("The Thought", 1902), then Inima și Mintea ("Heart and Mind", 1903).[10]

In 1906, he founded the satirical weekly Țivil-Cazon ("Civilian-Conscript"),[9] for which he used the pseudonym "Bélé".[3] The magazine had Victor Eftimiu as a pseudonymous co-editor. Eftimiu and Lăzăreanu's work for it included rhyming quatrains that parodied or mocked the more serious literary reviews.[11] Eftimiu noted, years later, that Bélé was "very talented".[12] Țivil-Cazon became the first Romanian journal of its kind to feature colored prints, and included artwork by Iosif Iser, Nicolae Petrescu Găină, and Nicolae Mantu. Heavily inspired by Ion Luca Caragiale and his Moftul Român, it mainly targeted Romanian Army personnel, depicted as slow-witted and (especially if cavalry officers) as sex objects.[13]

With his Romanian-sounding adoptive surname, Lăzăreanu had contemplative and rustic poems hosted in Arhiva of Iași. These brought him to the attention of A. C. Cuza, a traditionalist and antisemitic poet-doctrinaire, who was unaware of Lăzăreanu's Jewishness. Cuza traveled to Botoșani just to greet the "national troubadour", only to be informed that "it is the Jew's Lazarovici's boy [...] who is as shriveled as a raisin, and who looks at the moon like a somnambulist".[4] By then drawn into anarchist circles, Lăzăreanu was for a while the co-publisher of Panait Mușoiu's newspaper, Revista Ideei.[14]

Lăzăreanu was eventually deported from the country shortly after the 1907 peasants' revolt.[4][15][16] According to a detailed account of this incident, published in Furnica, Premier Dimitrie Sturdza had read Lăzăreanu's work in Zeflemeaua, and had decided to punish his insolence.[15] Lăzăreanu was allegedly arrested at Colentina Hospital,[15] having suffered a nervous breakdown.[4] The expulsion was facilitated by Lăzăreanu's Jewish ethnicity: under the still-restrictive laws of the Romanian Kingdom, he was classified as heimatlos.[17]

From 1907 to 1912, he lived in France, where he was admitted by examination to the Paris-based École des Hautes Études. There, he took courses with Sylvain Lévi and Charles Diehl, and between 1908 and 1909 was a classmate of the future historian Orest Tafrali.[1] He was published in the French socialist press[5] and, with fellow Botoșani exile Deodat Țăranu, was a member of the Romanian socialist students' society in Paris.[18] On May 28, 1910, he stood on the "revolutionary jury" which "tried" the Romanian anarchist Adolf Reichmann, suspected of being an agent provocateur. He deemed Reichmann not guilty.[19]

Return

Upon his return to Romania, Lăzăreanu, sometimes passing himself off as "Matei Rareș", "Trubadurul", or "Alexandru B. Trudă",[7] was an editor at the magazines Înfrățirea, Viitorul Social, Lupta Zilnică, and Adevărul Literar. He became a regular contributor to the left-wing dailies Adevărul and Dimineața,[1] and eventually also their cultural editor.[9] In 1915, using the pen name "Arald", he was featured in the pages of Rampa magazine.[3] Shortly before World War I, he had involved himself in the Romanian labor movement, teaching literature and the history of socialism at the "workers' university" in Bucharest.[5] His first book of literary portraits appeared in 1917, as Constantin Radovici, Agatha Bârsescu, Nora Marinescu.[1][20] Despite his growing reputation, Lăzăreanu, like other Jewish professionals, was barred from joining the Romanian Writers' Society (SSR).[4]

Lăzăreanu, noted for a while as a publisher of anti-war literature,[21] remained in German-occupied Bucharest after 1916. He was a member of the underground Social Democratic Party and guest speaker at its defiant Labor Day picnic (May 1, 1917).[22] Writing for Scena review, usually as "Alex. Bucur" or "Mathieu H. Rareșiu",[23] he met and befriended writer I. Peltz, who recalled that his "little essays" on literature, "of greatest interest to the reading public", took up most of Lăzăreanu's time, preventing him from publishing his poetry. Peltz also recalls Lăzăreanu's satire of "the oligarchy", noting him as an "elegant polemicist" of "fine humor".[24] His tireless glossing of texts earned accolades from Perpessicius, who described Lăzăreanu as "all-knowing" and "without rival".[1] A posthumous reviewer, Marin Bucur, was unimpressed. He describes Lăzăreanu as a scholar who missed out on "the general layout", focused on documenting "infinitesimal" aspects of history, including "trifles" and "bromides".[25]

Following the war and the creation of Greater Romania, Lăzăreanu maintained a profile in the labor and socialist movements. A speaker at the funeral of Marxist doyen Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea,[26] he was closely followed by agents of the Siguranța, who noted his association with labor organizer Herșcu Aroneanu, "a very dangerous element".[27] Joining the postwar Socialist Party, he returned to his native region during the 1919 paper mill workers' strike, which Aroneanu assisted, and again during the 1920 commemoration of the Paris Commune.[28] Lăzăreanu also became editor of the Socialist Party organ, Socialismul,[1] putting out its cultural pages.[5] He had similar contributions in the magazines Progresele Științei and Presa Dentară.[9] His other work appeared in Flacăra, Viața Românească, Vremea, Contimporanul, Revista Literară, Mântuirea, Adam, Luptătorul, Curierul, and Revista Idealistă.[1][29]

Cu privire la... period

From 1919 to 1930, Lăzăreanu resumed his work in popular education, this time as a staff member for the Union of Romanian Jews People's University.[9] Although he worked in political and trade-union journalism, as well as a philologist and bibliographer, he was primarily a commentator on Romanian literature. Writing about numerous authors who included Caragiale, Mihai Eminescu, Gheorghe Asachi, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Anton Pann, and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, his book titles for the early 1920s usually began Cu privire la... ("With a Look at...").[1][30] In 1922, Lăzăreanu annotated, prefaced and edited Caragiale's satiric verses, grouped into poetic cycles.[8][31] The work was poorly reviewed by his colleagues in the literary press, who noted that Caragiale himself had made efforts to erase all memory of his work in verse. Lăzăreanu defended himself with chronicles in Adevărul Literar și Artistic, arguing that the Caragiale poems had documentary and, "sometimes", artistic value.[32] Some 12 years after, Lăzăreanu received public thanks from Paul Zarifopol, Caragiale's friend and biographer: "neither the richness and exactitude of his knowledge, nor the kindness with which he imparts it, have an end."[33]

Writing mainly for Adevărul Literar și Artistic, Lăzăreanu discovered and published poetry by politicians such as Take Ionescu, Gheorghe Nădejde, and Constantin Istrati, also republishing 19th-century tracts by Jean Alexandre Vaillant and physician Alcibiade Tavernier, and documenting the minutae of Hasdeu's literary and political activity.[34] He also held a column on phonaesthetics,[35] and completed in print a historical review of the Romanian Communards and their sympathizers.[2] Known to his Romanian peers as an "incidental" but noteworthy medical historian,[36] his 1924 collection of essays bridged philology and health historiography, as: Lespezi și moloz din templul lui Epidaur ("Slabs and Debris from Epidaurus' Temple").[37] He also studied folkloristics and historical linguistics, focusing especially on "the destiny of some words".[5]

Over the following years, he researched and edited several volumes of essays by Dobrogeanu-Gherea, issuing, as part of the "Dobrogeanu-Gherea Collection", the socialist poetry of Dumitru Theodor Neculuță and Anton Bacalbașa, and the biography of Ottoi Călin (Doctorul Ottoi).[38] His 1924 review of "various raconteurs" (Câțiva povestitori) included monographs on Ion Creangă and N. D. Popescu-Popnedea. His critical verdicts were dismissed by Bucur, who described the book as "puerile" and "glib",[39] and later by Ioana Pârvulescu, who sees Lăzăreanu as "a minor, socialist literati [who] did not shy away from distorting literary reality".[8] In 1927, he published at Adevărul an overview of Hasdeu's humorous writings (Umorul lui Hajdeu). Originally a report to the Romanian Academy,[40] it was noted for its satirical tinges and a slight mockery of its protagonist.[41] Also that year, Lăzăreanu put out an ethnographic study of courtship (Ursitul fetelor și al vădanelor).[20]

Anti-fascism and 1940s persecution

In the 1930s, Lăzăreanu became a committed anti-fascist, and one of the main contributors to Petre Pandrea's left-wing review, Cuvântul Liber.[42] In 1936, the Romanian Communist Party attracted him into a semi-legal National Antifascist Committee, where he became colleagues with Iorgu Iordan, Sandu Eliad, and Petre Constantinescu-Iași.[43] His other focus was on researching Romanian folklore, touring the country to lecture the public on related topics, billed alongside Peltz and S. Podoleanu.[44] In 1936, he wrote in Adevărul an homage to the Romanian Jewish linguist Moses Gaster.[45]

Lăzăreanu was sidelined during the antisemitic ascendancy of the National Christian Party (1937), but returned to favor under the National Renaissance Front (1938): although fascist in nature, the latter stipended leftist and Jewish intellectuals, protected by Mihai Ralea, the Labor Minister.[46] Like other men from Ralea's circle, he remained a regular contributor to Adevărul Literar și Artistic, the sole leftist review still tolerated by the regime.[47] In 1938, he published his final Cu privire la... volume, focused on George Coșbuc, followed in 1940 by an introduction to the work of Constantin Graur and a history of the Libertatea socialist club.[48]

As the country plunged into World War II alongside the Axis powers, Lăzăreanu was again exposed to racial and political persecution. He was placed under constant surveillance by the Ion Antonescu regime,[5] and his collection of documents in Botoșani was presumed looted.[49] Publication and circulation of his work was explicitly banned.[50] In October 1942, he was arrested with other Jews and scheduled to be deported to Transnistria Governorate, but was spared thanks to the interventions of Queen Helen and a Romanian physician, Victor Gomoiu.[51]

After the fall of Antonescu in August 1944, Lăzăreanu became a visible associate (later member)[5] of the Communist Party, contributing to its main organs: România Liberă, Scînteia, Studii.[7] From 1945 to 1948, he served as the inaugural rector of the new Workers' University in Bucharest, which became the Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy under his tenure.[1][52] In May 1945, he was finally elected to the SSR, one of seven Jewish members enlisted on that occasion.[53] On September 18, 1947, he joined Gala Galaction, Victor Eftimiu, Mihail Macavei and others on the leadership board of the Bucharest Atheneum.[54]

He returned to writing with a Creangă monograph, put out by the Romanian–Russian Relations Library,[55] focusing his research on that writer's debt to Russian fairy tales.[5][8] The communist party's Section for Political Education hosted his lectures on the "poets of labor and poets as laborers", which placed focus on laborist themes in the work of Eminescu or Creangă, and introduced the public to works by Zaharia Boiu, Dumitru Corbea, and Alexandru Toma.[56]

Communist period

Shortly after the Arab–Israeli War, Lăzăreanu gave public endorsement to the Jewish Democratic Committee, which followed a communist platform of anti-Zionism and anti-cosmopolitanism.[57] In 1948, when the new communist regime revamped the Romanian Academy, he was elected a titular member.[1][58] Lăzăreanu headed the Academy's library from 1948 to 1957.[1][58][59] In 2013, mathematician-writer Mircea Malița recalled that he was actually in charge of the latter, Lăzăreanu's presidency being otherwise "symbolic".[60] Nevertheless, Lăzăreanu is alleged to have obtained for the Academy the letters of left-wing novelist Panait Istrati, having coaxed his widow into handing them over.[61]

Lăzăreanu was similarly involved, in 1952, with the Romanian orthographic reform, voted in as a member of the Linguistics Institute, and nominally implementing locally the objectives of Marxism and Problems of Linguistics.[62] He published in 1950 an anthology of anti-monarchic literature, which went through two more editions by 1957.[55] He returned to socialist historiography and reissued as a book his earlier study on the Romanian Communards.[63] His other work was in early-readers' literature, with the book Dan inimosul ("Hearty Dan").[64] Although a representative of the new regime, in 1950 he signed a public protest in support of his friend Peltz, who had been exposed as a Siguranța informant and was facing communist imprisonment.[65]

Before his death in January 1957, Lăzăreanu had served several times in the Academy Presidium. He was also a recipient of the Star of the People's Republic of Romania, Second Class, and Ordinul Muncii, First Class.[58] He was survived by son Alexandru Lăzăreanu, who worked as a Head of Department in the Foreign Ministry and was instrumental in obtaining Romania's affiliation to UNESCO and the United Nations.[59]

Incinerated at Cenușa crematorium, Barbu Lăzăreanu's funeral, including the speeches, was held on the premises and closed with the singing of "The Internationale", the highest mark of adherence to the communist ideal.[66] His ashes were deposited near the mausoleum in Carol Park, but his and all other remains at the complex were removed after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.[67] Found and preserved by the World Jewish Congress, his documentary collection is housed in New York City.[68]

Notes

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Aurel Sasu (ed.), Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, Vol. I, p. 839. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. ISBN 973-697-758-7
  2. 2.0 2.1 Pompiliu Păltânea, "Lettres roumaines", in Mercure de France, Nr. 627, August 1924, p.818
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Straje, pp. 390, 391
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Leon Feraru, "The Mendacity of Roumania. How the Government Persecutes Its Jewish Men of Letters", The Reform Advocate, Vol. XLVII, Issue 23, July 1914, p. 857
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 "Acad. B. Lăzăreanu", p. 247
  6. Bejenaru, p. 361
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Straje, p. 391
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 (Romanian) Ioana Pârvulescu, "Nimeni nu poate sări peste umbra epocii lui", România Literară, Nr. 23/2009
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Podoleanu, p. 159
  10. Ioan Maximiuc, "Posibile și necesare corective și completări la o (posibilă) istorie a presei locale", Hierasus, Vol. X, 1997, pp. 226–227
  11. Eftimiu, pp. 127–131
  12. Eftimiu, p. 127
  13. Horia Vladimir Șerbănescu, "Caricatura militară în presa umoristică românească, de la Unire până la Războiul cel Mare (1859–1916)", Studii și Cercetări de Istoria Artei. Artă Plastică, Vol. 3 (47), 2013, pp. 34–40
  14. "Matin Veith: Panait Musoiu. Zu Leben und Publizistik des rumänischen Anarchisten", Syfo – Forschung & Bewegung, Abstracts No. 2, 2002, p. 6
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 Paul de Coks, "Expulzarea unui trubadur", Furnica, Nr. 139/1907, p. 7
  16. "Acad. B. Lăzăreanu", p. 247; Petrescu, p. 201
  17. J. L. "La Réaction en Roumanie", L'Humanité, May 23, 1928, p. 2; Petrescu, p. 201
  18. Bejenaru, p. 362
  19. "Dernière heure. Tribunal Révolutionnaire. Le Roumain Reichmann a été jugé la nuit dernière par les anarchistes réunis à Paris", Le Journal, May 29, 1910, p. 4.
  20. 20.0 20.1 Podoleanu, p. 160
  21. Pompiliu Păltânea, "Lettres roumaines", in Mercure de France, Nr. 576, June 1922, p. 803
  22. Ion Toacă, "Locuri și case memoriale care evidențiază rezistența maselor populare românești împotriva regimului de ocupație (decembrie 1916 – noiembrie 1918)", Revista de Istorie, Nr. 1/1977, p. 117
  23. Straje, p. 390
  24. Peltz, pp. 23–25
  25. Bucur, pp. 249–250
  26. Cioculescu et al., p. 602; Petrescu, p. 339
  27. Leon Eșanu, "Doctor H. Aroneanu și mișcarea muncitorească din Bacău în anii 1918—1920", Carpica. Publicația Muzeului de Istorie și Artă Bacău, Vol. VI, 1973–1974, p. 183
  28. Leon Eșanu, "Activitatea secțiunilor din Moldova ale Partidului Socialist în anii premergători înființării P.C.R." and Elisabeta Ioniță, Gheorghe Grivețeanu, "Casa în care a fost votată constituirea Partidului Comunist Român", Cercetări Istorice, Vol. II, 1971, pp. 271, 376
  29. Podoleanu, pp. 159–160; Straje, p. 391
  30. "Acad. B. Lăzăreanu", p. 247; Bucur, p. 250
  31. Podoleanu, pp. 159, 160
  32. Pușcariu, pp. 1033–1035
  33. Leon Feraru, "Reviews. I. L. Caragiale, Opere, Tomul III", The Romanic Review, Nr. 1/1934, p. 70
  34. Pușcariu, pp. 994–995, 1000–1002, 1045
  35. Pușcariu, pp. 1016–1017, 1053
  36. Valeriu L. Bologa, "Institutul de istoria medicinei, farmaciei și de folklor medical din Cluj", Boabe de Grâu, Nr. 6/1932, p. 207
  37. "Bibliografie", Foaia Diecezană. Organul Eparhiei Ortodoxe Române a Caransebeșului, Nr. 41/1924, p. 5
  38. Podoleanu, pp. 159, 160. See also Bucur, p. 250; Cioculescu et al., pp. 631, 635; Pușcariu, p. 995
  39. Bucur, p. 249
  40. Pușcariu, p. 1045
  41. C. D. Fortunescu, "Recenzii. Cărți", Arhivele Olteniei, Nr. 32–33/1927, p. 396
  42. Ovid Crohmălniceanu, Literatura română între cele două războaie mondiale, Vol. I, p. 162. Bucharest: Editura Minerva, 1972. OCLC 490001217
  43. Gheorghe I. Ioniță, Virgil Smîrcea, "Acțiuni de masă desfășurate în România în anii 1933—1940 pentru apărarea independenței și suveranității patriei, împotriva fascismului", in Petre Constantinescu-Iași (ed.), Din lupta antifascistă pentru independența și suveranitatea României, pp. 40–41. Bucharest: Editura Militară, 1971.
  44. Peltz, p. 113
  45. Ilie Bărbulescu, "Sărbătorirea și personalitatea științifică a d-lui Moses Gaster", Arhiva, Organul Societății Istorico-Filologice din Iași, Nr. 3–4/1936, pp. 253, 256–257
  46. Boia, pp. 141–143
  47. Boia, p. 143
  48. Bucur, pp. 250–251
  49. Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Tentative List of Jewish Cultural Treasures in Axis-Occupied Countries. Supplement to Jewish Social Studies, Volume 8, No. 1, p. 63. New York City: Conference on Jewish Relations, 1946. OCLC 4225293
  50. "Situația creatorilor de artă și literatură, în anii Holocaustului", in Realitatea Evreiască, Nr. 237/2005, pp. 8–9
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  52. "Acad. B. Lăzăreanu", p. 248; (Romanian) Paula Mihailov Chiciuc, "Universitatea PCR", Jurnalul Național, September 6, 2006
  53. Boia, pp. 265–265
  54. Veronica Aldea, Adriana Gagea, Angela Oprea, "Biblioteca Ateneului Român", Biblioteca Bucureștilor, Nr. 1/2003, p. 7
  55. 55.0 55.1 Bucur, p. 250
  56. "Poeții muncii și poeții muncitori", Scînteia, March 1, 1946, p. 2
  57. "News of the Month", Brooklyn Jewish Center Review, Vol. XXXI, Issue 7, October 1949, p. 11
  58. 58.0 58.1 58.2 "Acad. B. Lăzăreanu", p. 248
  59. 59.0 59.1 Mircea Malitza, "Réflexions sur la création et le fonctionnement de l'UNESCO-CEPES: l'avis personnel de l'un des fondateurs", L'Enseignement Supérieur en Europe, Nr. 1–2/2002, p. 9
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  62. Ana Selejan, Literatura în totalitarism. Vol. II: Bătălii pe frontul literar, pp. 115–116. Bucharest: Cartea Românească, 2008. ISBN 978-973-23-1961-1
  63. Bucur, p. 250; Gh. Haupt, "Primele asociații muncitorești în Romînia", Studii. Revistă de Istorie, Nr. 1/1957, p. 75
  64. Marcel Breslașu, "Literatura pentru copii și tineret", in Lucrările primului Congres al scriitorilor din Republica Populară Română: 18—23 iunie 1956, p. 191. Bucharest: Editura de Stat pentru Literatură și Artă, 1956. OCLC 895460598
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  66. Marius Rotar, History of Modern Cremation in Romania, p. 317. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4438-4542-7
  67. (Romanian) Petrișor Cană, "Urne cu pământ de pe Frontul de Est, aduse la Mausoleul Eroilor Neamului", Evenimentul Zilei, June 8, 2013; Mihaela Grancea, "Moartea comunistă în România", Romanian Political Science Review, Nr. 2/2008, pp. 282–283
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