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  In the summer of 1942, the writer, journalist and historian of religion Mircea Eliade was briefly in Bucharest, between leaving his diplomatic post in London and taking over the one at the Romanian Embassy in Lisbon. This was the last time the author, then aged 35, saw his home country and, more importantly, his birth city, Bucharest, which he gave a mythical aura in his prose. This was also when he left his entire personal archive, with manuscripts, documents and scientific writings, in ...

Indian and Oriental studies have had a number of remarkable representatives in Romania as well. The first was Mircea Eliade, born in 1907, a reputed writer and historian of religions, who had a vast scientific and didactic career in the West. The following generation of experts in Indian studies included Sergiu Al-George, Anton Zigmund-Cerbu, Eliza Zigmund-Cerbu, Marcel Leibovici and Arion Roșu, the four latter being members of the Bucharest-based Jewish community. Arion Roșu was born February...