Victor Neumann

Victor Neumann (b. October 28, 1953) is a Romanian historian, political analyst, and professor at the West University in Timişoara. He is a well-known specialist in the recent cultural and intellectual histories of Eastern and Central Europe (focusing his reaserch on interculturalism and multiculturalism). Much of his work deals with Jewish-Romanian history, the history of antisemitism, as well as various topics connected with nationalism.

Biography

Born to a Jewish family [The Romanian Jewish community] in Lugoj, Neumann graduated from the University of Cluj-Napoca in 1976, and took a PhD in History from the University of Bucharest in 1992. He was a visiting professor at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers (1999), Emory University in Atlanta, and Georgia State University in Athens, Georgia (1999), the National Foreign Affairs Training Center din Washington, D.C. (2001), and the University of Vienna (2003-2004). In 1995-1997, he was the recipient of a NATO Scholarship, and, in 2000-2001, of a Fulbright Scholarship (at the Catholic University of America).

Neumann was also head of research at the at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and a lecturer at several higher learning institutions (the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Columbia University, the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and the University of Udine).

Works

As author

*"Vasile Maniu - Monografie istorică", Editura Facla, Timişoara, 1984
*"Convergenţe spirituale (Studii privind relaţiile culturale şi politice în Europa Centrală şi de Est, 1750-1850)", Editura Eminescu, Bucharest, 1986
*"Tentaţia lui Homo Europaeus. Geneza spiritului modern în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est", Editura Stiinţifică, Bucharest, 1991 (translated as "The Temptation of Homo Europaeus", East European Monographs, Boulder, Colorado, 1993 ISBN 0-88033-281-6)
*"Istoria evreilor din România. Studii documentare şi teoretice", Editura Amarcord, Timişoara, 1996
*"Identităţi multiple în Europa regiunilor. Interculturalitatea Banatului", Editura Hestia, Timişoara, 1997
*"Istoria evreilor din Banat. O mărturie a multi- şi interculturalităţii Europei oriental-centrale", Editura Atlas-Du Style, Bucharest, 1999
*"Ideologie şi fantasmagorie. Perspective comparative asupra istoriei gîndirii politice în Europa Est-Centrală", Polirom, Iaşi, 2001
*"Between Words and Reality. Studies on the Politics of Recognition and Changes of Regime in Contemporary Romania", Council for Research of Values and Philosophy, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 2001 ISBN 1-56518-161-1
*"Neam, popor sau naţiune?", Editura Curtea Veche, Bucharest, 2004 ISBN 973-669-034-2

In collaboration

*Dario Castiglione, "The History of Political Thought in National Context", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001
*Kenneth Cushner, "International Perspectives on Intercultural Education", Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, 1998

Notes

References

* [http://www.romanianjewish.org/en/mosteniri_ale_culturii_iudaice_03_11_02.html The Romanian Jewish community: "Incursion in the life and history of the Jew Community in Timişoara. Important personalities"] [sic]
*ro icon [http://www.curteaveche.ro/bookdescription.php?book=377 Biography at Editura Curtea Veche]
*ro icon [http://www.evz.ro/article.php?artid=253660 Simona Chitan, "Victor Neumann, evreii şi naţionalismul"] , in "Evenimentul Zilei", March 19, 2006

External links

*Andrei Oişteanu, [http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/filologie/hebra/3.htm "The History of the Jews of Banat". Chronicle of a Forecasted Book" at the University of Bucharest site]