Template:Did you know nominations/Dan Simonescu
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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 02:13, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
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Dan Simonescu
Simonescu in 1977
- ... that Romanian literary scholar Dan Simonescu (pictured), who edited a chronicle dealing with the reign of Michael the Brave, had to delete mention of Michael having "all the Jews murdered"? Source: Andrei Oișteanu, Inventing the Jew. Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central East-European Cultures, p. 27. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8032-2098-0. Passage: "In 1959, Dan Simonescu published Cronica lui Baltasar Walther despre Mihai Viteazul [Baltasar Walther’s chronicle on Michael the Brave], written at the end of the sixteenth century. The literary historian expunged—by replacing it with dots indicating the ellipse—the following passage: 'Likewise, [Mihai Viteazul] had all the Jews murdered, who, according to their custom, as they were wont, conducted themselves as traitors to the country.' The editors of subsequent volumes of Romanian history and ancient literature took over the document thus truncated, without even marking the omission in the censured passage. In a recent book, Dan Horia Mazilu absolves both Dan Simonescu and the editors, yet he neglects to mention the real culprits: 'It is not the lateProfessor Dan Simonescu who bears responsibility for the elisions,' and 'the innocence of the publishing houses seems to me beyond question.'" (As Oișteanu notes there and on previous pages, the "real culprits" are Romania's communist authorities.)
5x expanded by Dahn (talk). Self-nominated at 17:00, 20 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Dan Simonescu; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
