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A fact from Dan Simonescu appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 September 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Romanian literary scholar Dan Simonescu, who edited a chronicle dealing with the reign of Michael the Brave, had to delete any mention of Michael having "all the Jews murdered"?
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... that Romanian literary scholar Dan Simonescu(pictured), who edited a chronicle dealing with the reign of Michael the Brave, had to delete mention of Michael having "all the Jews murdered"? Source: Andrei Oișteanu, Inventing the Jew. Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central East-European Cultures, p. 27. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. ISBN978-0-8032-2098-0. Passage: "In 1959, Dan Simonescu published Cronica lui Baltasar Walther despre Mihai Viteazul [Baltasar Walther’s chronicle on Michael the Brave], written at the end of the sixteenth century. The literary historian expunged—by replacing it with dots indicating the ellipse—the following passage: 'Likewise, [Mihai Viteazul] had all the Jews murdered, who, according to their custom, as they were wont, conducted themselves as traitors to the country.' The editors of subsequent volumes of Romanian history and ancient literature took over the document thus truncated, without even marking the omission in the censured passage. In a recent book, Dan Horia Mazilu absolves both Dan Simonescu and the editors, yet he neglects to mention the real culprits: 'It is not the lateProfessor Dan Simonescu who bears responsibility for the elisions,' and 'the innocence of the publishing houses seems to me beyond question.'" (As Oișteanu notes there and on previous pages, the "real culprits" are Romania's communist authorities.)
No eligibility problems; expanded well past the minimum and more than long enough (would be able to pass GAN without issues). Image is public domain under pre-1996 Romanian law and URAA. Hook is cited in article and interesting. QPQ done. Vaticidalprophet08:20, 5 September 2023 (UTC)Reply
No eligibility problems; expanded well past the minimum and more than long enough (would be able to pass GAN without issues). Image is public domain under pre-1996 Romanian law and URAA. Hook is cited in article and interesting. QPQ done. Vaticidalprophet 08:20, 5 September 2023 (UTC)