Mihail Sebastian was born Iosif Hechter in 1907 in Brăila on the Danube; he changed his name in 1927 when he became a student in Bucharest, where antisemitism was rife. It would e
Friday, 23 October 2020, 2pm online | Livestream on RCI London’s Facebook page and recorded on YouTube channel from Sat 24 Oct Organised with the support of the British C
Already a star of Bucharest’s literary scene in the 1930s, Mihail Sebastian was killed at the age of 37 by an erratic Soviet military truck before the end of the Second World War
