This volume constitutes the first in-depth study of modernism in design and performance in
interwar Romania covering the period 1924 to 1934. It focuses on Jewish avant-garde artists
and cultural producers as well as design educators arts patrons and women entrepreneurs.
Based on extensive research in Romania Latvia Germany and the United States it highlights
the transnational impact of Jewish cultural production and its contribution to avant-garde
movements across Europe and further afield. It shows how Bucharest was connected to places such
as Berlin Paris Riga and Chicago through modern design and experimental Yiddish theatre and
argues that the Schule Reimann was more influential in Romania than the Bauhaus. Drawing on
scholarship from the fields of performance studies design history and art history this
volume makes a valuable new contribution to histories of modernism and avant-garde.
