Andrei Oișteanu

Who is Andrei Oișteanu?

Andrei Oișteanu is a Romanian historian of religions and mentalities, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, literary critic and novelist. Specialized in the history of religions and mentalities, he is also noted for his investigation of rituals and magic and his work in Jewish studies and the history of antisemitism. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he also became noted for his articles and essays on the Holocaust in Romania.

A founding member and researcher at the Institute for History of Religions in Bucharest, a member of the Romanian Academy's Folklore and Ethnology Commission and the International Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences in London, he is the president of the Romanian Association for the History of Religions. Andrei Oișteanu is professor at the Department for Jewish Studies, at the University of Bucharest. He is also member of the educational committee of the 'Elie Wiesel' National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania and member of the European Association for Jewish Studies.