Romanian Jews and their International Recognition in the Cinema World.

This study is dedicated to those Jews from Romania who established themselves as international filmmakers or important figures of the international cinema industry with remarkable film contributions in Turkey, Germany, France, and the USA, where they won four Oscars and eight nominations. Therefore, we can talk about Romanian Jews as personalities who left a mark on the cinema field and whose work entered world film culture. The article will document how, until WWII, Jews were a large minority in Romania, able to create a distinct culture with by establishing the world's first Yiddish language theatre, while also having an important contribution to Klezmer music. The article also looks at documentaries mirroring the emigration of Romanian Jews to Israel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]