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The diaries of the former senior political representative of the
United States to Romania from 1944 to 1947, Burton Y. Berry,
provide a first-hand account of the communist takeover of Romania,
as seen through the eyes of an American diplomat. Born on 31 August
1901 in Fowler, Indiana, Burton Y. Berry completed his studies at
Indiana University before joining the United States Foreign
Service. From 1928 to 1944 he served in various posts at American
diplomatic missions in Turkey, Greece, Iran, and Egypt. In 1944 he
was appointed as senior political representative for the United
States in Romania, with the personal rank of Minister. As General
Cortlandt Van R. Schuyler, the chief of the U.S. military
representation on the Allied Control Commission in Romania
described it, Berry's primary task was to establish and maintain
informed channels with the king and the Romanian government. From
this position, Berry witnessed first-hand the events that led to
the installation of a communist regim
The Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest holds a rare piece
of Jewish art from the seventeenth century, an illuminated scroll
of the Book of Esther, dated 1673. This manuscript is a unique
example in terms of Jewish art because of two distinct components
that it exclusively possesses. One of them is the date indicating
the year 7181 in Byzantine chronology, which corresponds to the
Gregorian calendar year 1673. The second component is the coat of
arms of the Principality of Moldavia, placed within the escutcheon
in the ornamental section at the beginning of the scroll. These
essentially biographic elements indicate an age for this type of
megillah, and although this is not the very year when it first took
shape, they prevent specialists from oscillating between the 16th,
17th, and the mostly preferred 18th centuries. In addition, the
presence of the Moldavian coat of arms in the escutcheon, along
with other evidence, points to a Romanian holder, namely Dosoftei,
the metropolita
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