Eli Lotar
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Eli Lotar was a French and Romanian photographer, cinematographer and film director. The eldest son of writer Tudor Arghezi, his mother was the schoolteacher and poet Constanța Zissu, who got pregnant
Image from the slaughterhouse series in Documents
A. L. Zissu
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Abraham Leib Zissu was a Romanian writer, political essayist, industrialist, and spokesman of the Jewish Romanian community. Of modest social origin and a recipient of Hasidic education, he became a c
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…existence was later concealed by Arghezi. Authors such as Paul Cernat assume that Constanța Zissu was the sister of a Jewish community leader and writer, A. L. Zissu. This interpretation is contradicted by archival research, which traced her lineage to an Orthodox and ethnic Romanian family, centered on Pitești…
Zissu, photographed c. 1935
Cover of Hasmonaea, the Romanian Zionist magazine, in 1924
Group of Jewish parachutists, photographed in Bucharest in September 1944. Shaike Dan Trachtenberg is center, seated, with Baruch Kamin to his left
Cell of Jilava Prison, photographed in 2012