An interview with Corina L. Petrescu

If you enjoyed the interview with Nahma Sandrow, save the date for an interview with Corina L. Petrescu, Ph.D, and learn about the Yiddish theater in Romania under Communism.

Corina L. Petrescu is Associate Professor of German at the University of Mississippi, USA. She is the author of Against All Odds: Subversive Spaces in National Socialist Germany (Peter Lang 2010) and of various articles on Volker Braun, Eginald Schlattner, Ana Novac, representations of 1968 in the Romanian media, and Yiddish theater in Romania. She is the co-editor with Valentina Glajar and Alison Lewis of Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (Nebraska UP 2019) and Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc Between Surveillance and Life Writing (Camden House 2016). Her current work on the Jewish State Theater Bucharest from 1948 to the present has been generously funded by the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU, Budapest, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.