In 2002 he had a documentary grant in Germany (Berlin, München, Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf) offered by Goethe Institute, a grant on “Jewish Identity and Antisemitism in Central and Eastern Europe”. Between 1997-1999, he had a research grant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. In 1997 he took a course in Jewish Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (lecturers: Moshe Idel and Michael Silber). During the early 1970s, he was active in Ceata Melopoică, an experimental music and concept band led by Mircea Florian.
Biography īorn into a Jewish family in Bucharest, Oișteanu took a post-graduate course in Oriental Studies at the University of Bucharest (lecturers: Sergiu Al-George and Amita Bhose). He is the father of Amana Ferro Oisteanu, EU public affairs expert (Brussels) and the brother of American poet Valery Oișteanu (New York).
Andrei Oișteanu is a Knight of the Order of the Star of Romania, awarded by the Romanian President (2006), and a Commander of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, awarded by the Italian President (2005). He is also member of the educational board of the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (Academic Studies Press, Boston). Oișteanu is professor at the Department for Jewish Studies, at the University of Bucharest. After the Romanian Revolution, he also became noted for his articles and essays on the Holocaust in Romania.Ī founding member and researcher at the Institute for History of Religions of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest, he is also the president of the Romanian Association for the History of Religions (RAHR). Specialized in the history of religions and mentalities, he is also noted for his investigation of rituals and magic and his work in Jewish studies and the history of antisemitism. Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Commander classĪndrei Oișteanu ( Romanian pronunciation: born September 18, 1948) is a Romanian historian of religions and mentalities, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, literary critic and novelist. Order of the Star of Romania, Knight class
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