Loading ...Romania is displaying at an important stand in the Jerusalem International Book Fair, which was opened on Sunday evening by Israeli President Shimon Peres. On Monday at around 10:00 o'clock local, the first opening hour of the fair, the Romanian stand recorded a significant number of Romanian-speaking visitors, who wanted to keep themselves abreast of the latest publishing releases in Romania, whether fiction, science, history or arts, to get in touch with officials of the exhibiting publishing houses, and, of course, to buy books.
At this edition of the Jerusalem Book Fair, the book lovers can buy directly the books they want. The Romanian stand will host Romanian literature promotions shows, with the participation of successful Romanian writers, and the attending Romanian writers will take part in the Literary café, a talk show on literary themes to be broadcast by the public Israeli television broadcaster.
Ana Andreescu of the Romanian Ministry of Culture told Agerpres that the Romanian stand, which covers 28 square metres, as it did in the previous edition, hosts 25 publishing houses. Four publishing house officials will be there to guide the visiting Israeli readers. „We want to promote contemporary Romanian literature and writers, including Horia Roman Patapievici, Andrei Plesu and Ana Balndiana. We are also introducing two rising stars – Dan Lungu and Gabriel Ghifu – and we will be releasing the complete works of Norman Manea, published by Polirom,” Andreescu told, adding that the complete works of Nina Cassian will also be presented at the fair.
Besides contemporary and classical fiction, the Romanian publishing houses are also displaying scientific works and children's books that have been issued over the past two years. The Romanian Culture Institute is exhibiting its own publications. Selling books at the fair will be only the publishers, while the remaining books will be taken over by the Romanian Embassy in Tel Aviv to be donated to Israeli associations of Romanian-born Jews. Among the first visitors at Romania's stand was Rodica Jacob, head of the Cataloguing and Classification Department of the library of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
Jacob told that he came to the Romanian stand to buy books on WWII, Holocaust and Jewish communities of Romania. „Yad Vashen has a stock of 7-8,000 Romanian books. We receive catalogues from Romania and Moldova, advertisements, we are searching the Internet for books, and then our friends recommend us some books.
Erstwhile, I would travel to Romania to look for books in bookshops, but the book fair has made our documentary work easier,” said Jacob. Erica Weiss Schwerer, a member of the Romanian and the Israeli unions of visual artists, has travelled 200 km from Beersheva to Jerusalem to look for the latest releases in Romanian fiction and arts.
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