Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Iancu, Carol
Year: 2008
Title: Chief Rabbi Alexander Safran And Queen Mother Elena
Journal: Studia Hebraica
Issue: 8
Pages: 335-344
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, interdisciplinary, rabbi, intellectuals, holocaust rescuers, biographies
Abstract: (En) The paper outlines the decisive role played by Chief Rabbi Alexander Safran (1910- 2006) in Engineer Emil Simiu (Moshe Şmilovici)'s initiative to obtain the title of "Righteous among the Nations" for Queen Mother Elena (1896-1982). This initiative was launched on February 26, 1989, with a letter addressed by Emil Simiu to Alexander Safran, and ended up with the favorable decision of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous among the Nations of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (of which the late Ytzhak Artzi was a member), which was communicated on March 15, 1993, to Chief Rabbi Alexander Safran. It is published here, together with two letters written by Alexander Safran on February 13 and 17, 1992 (a copy of the French originals can be found in the Alexander Safran Archive in Geneva), which proved decisive for the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous among the Nations