Andrei Oişteanu

Born 1948. Lives in Bucharest. In the 80s and 90s he practiced visual arts, participating in exhibitions with collages, assemblages of objects, installations, mail art, happenings, artist's books. Researcher at the Institute for History of Religions. His latest books: Religion, Politics and Myth (2007), Il diluvio, il drago e il labirinto: Studi di magia e mitologia europea (Verona, 2008), Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Central-East European Cultures (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), Narcotics in Romanian Culture (2010), Konstruktionen des Judenbildes (Berlin, 2010).