Leon Feraru popularized the latter with his work in America, having left in 1913 to escape antisemitic pressures.
16 Facts About Leon Feraru
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Leon Feraru completed his basic education in his native city, graduating from the Schwartzman Brothers school and then the Balcescu Lycee.
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Leon Feraru's dignity was defended publicly by a Romanian poet, Dimitrie Anghel, with whom he had a close bond.
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Leon Feraru is credited with having helped alter Anghel's own antisemitic stance, making him into a noted defender of Jewish emancipation.
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Alongside Stamatiad, Enselberg-Leon Feraru was an affiliate of the Vieata Noua circle, and a regular at its coffeehouse salon, La Gustav.
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Leon Feraru was friends with Jean Bart, Camil Baltazar and especially Anghel, with whom he collaborated on several poems.
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Leon Feraru interrupted this work in early 1913, when he left Romania for the United States in early 1913.
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Leon Feraru married a fellow Romanian immigrant, who had lost her fluency in Romanian; he insisted that she relearn the language, and taught it to their child.
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Leon Feraru then was a professor of Romance languages and literature at Columbia University, contributing to The Romanic Review and Rumanian Literary News.
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Back in America by February 1926, Feraru received became Honorary Consul of Romania in New York, by appointment of King Ferdinand I He was employed by Long Island University as professor and, for a while, as head of the foreign languages department.
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Leon Feraru wrote two English-language critical studies of Romanian literature: The Development of the Rumanian Novel and The Development of the Rumanian Poetry.
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Leon Feraru was later featured in Cugetul Liber, put out in Bucharest by Pas and Eugen Relgis, his texts published in the Union of Romanian Jews organ, Curierul Israelit.
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Leon Feraru's work was sampled in literary newspapers such as Victoria, Ateneul Literar, Junimea Moldovei, and Cafeneaua Politica si Literara.
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Leon Feraru submitted articles and reviews for The International Encyclopedia about Gala Galaction, Mateiu Caragiale, Ioan Alexandru Bratescu-Voinesti, Lucian Blaga, and his friend Baltazar.
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Leon Feraru died in New York City in 1961 or, according to other sources, 1962.
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Leon Feraru's memory lingered among younger authors as they themselves reached old age; in the 1980s, Geo Bogza composed a prose poem about a dream sequence involving Leon Feraru.