An Emotional Evening of Discovery and Connection with Romanian Roots Between 1990 and 2004, Americans adopted more than 8,000 children from Romania. Terrifying images of communist institutions filled with abandoned orphans opened the hearts of many Minnesotan families who fled to save these children. Minnesota became home- ACASA for these children, now young adults, starting […]
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Romanian Author Mircea Cartarescu attended Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Book Festival in Minneapolis on his tour of the U.S. to celebrate the launch of his novel “Blinding”, newly translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter. Mr. Cartarescu was the 2012 recipient of the Berlin International Prize for Literature, the latest of many awards.
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Two presentations were given, “Early Romanian Immigration to the Twin Cities” by Vicki Albu, a genealogist affiliated with the University of Minnesota and the Immigration Research Center, and “Castles of Transylvania” by Raluca Octav, affiliated with the Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality, New York. The event took place at the Elmer L. Andersen
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