14 Facts About Avram Steuerman-Rodion

Avram Steuerman-Rodion, born Adolf Steuerman or Steuermann and often referred to as just Rodion, was a Romanian poet, anthologist, physician and socialist journalist.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion committed suicide upon demobilization, following episodes of clinical depression.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion fought to defend Dobrogeanu-Gherea against dissident socialists, in particular against a pseudonymous critic, I Saint Pierre.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion's words of praise irritated nationalist historian Nicolae Iorga, who published the antisemitic review Neamul Romanesc: in one of his articles for that magazine, Iorga reported that Caragiale was a sellout to Jewish interests.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion's work established Rodion's reputation outside Moldavia: in Transylvania, critic Ilarie Chendi noted that, with Dumitru Karnabatt and some others, the "fecund" Steuerman was still maintaining alive the tradition of cultural journalism.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion ridiculed the SSR's xenophobia in a series of articles for Ordinea and Opinia.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion's comments enlisted negative reactions in Chendi's Cumpana magazine, where it was implied that Rodion risked awakening latent antisemitism, but were defended by his more liberal colleagues at Noua Revista Romana.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion was allied with Panait Zosin and Sebastian Moruzzi, two left-wing dissidents from the Conservative-Democratic Party.

In June 1915, Avram Steuerman-Rodion Steuerman was assigned a regular column in Seara, a Bucharest newspaper founded by Germanophile agitator Alexandru Bogdan-Pitesti and purchased from him by a German cartel.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion feared that a death squad would dispose of him, and became an insomniac.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion was later stationed in the village of Caiuti, where he read in Opinia that Fondane's father Isac Wechsler had died.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion was haunted by memories of the war, and, according to historian Lucian Boia, suffered episodes of clinical depression which he both concealed and left untreated.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion left several manuscripts, such as Frontul vesel and Insemnari din razboi.

Avram Steuerman-Rodion left literary works which bridged socialist tendentiousness with his own cultural priority, Jewish assimilation.