Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Morar, Vasile
Year: 2007
Title: Tristan Tzara And The Moral Lesson Of A Lecture Held In Bucharest In 1946
Journal: Studia Hebraica
Issue: 7
Pages: 355-365
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, Bucharest, post-second world war, intellectuals, the holocaust in public perception, holocaust, art
Abstract: (En) The founder of Dadaism - Tristan Tzara - had the opportunity to present his view on the role of surrealism in the aftermath of World War II in Bucharest, in 1946. On that occasion he emphasized - in the country which he had left - that "Dada was first and foremost a moral movement". In our hypothesis, the origin of his beliefs on the horrors of war and on the Holocaust can be sought not just in his adhesion to the rationality and morality of the ethical-political project proposed by modernity but also in his adhesion to the writings of the prophets of the People of Israel - Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah - who were the first to foresee, along history, the notion of open moral. In its name Tzara condemned the catastrophic perils befalling human condition, at a time when the barbarity of the crematoria tended to suppress the most elementary moral.