Victor Neumann

For the Mexican mathematician, see Víctor Neumann-Lara

Victor Neumann (b. October 28, 1953) is a Romanian historian, political analyst, and professor at the Western University in Timişoara. He is a well-known specialist in the recent cultural and intellectual histories of Eastern and Central Europe (focusing his reaserch on interculturalism and multiculturalism). Much of his work deals with Jewish-Romanian history, the history of antisemitism, as well as various topics connected with nationalism.

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Born to a Jewish family^[1] in Lugoj, Neumann grduated from the University of Cluj-Napoca in 1976, and took a doctorate in History from the University of Bucharest in 1992. He was a visiting professor at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers (1999), Emory University in Atlanta, and Georgia State University in Athens, Georgia (1999), the National Foreign Affairs Training Center din Washington, D.C. (2001), and the University of Vienna (2003-2004). In 1995-1997, he was the recipient of a NATO Scholarship, and, in 2000-2001, of a Fulbright Scholarship (at the Catholic University of America).

Neumann was also head of research at the at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and a lecturer at several higher learning institutions (the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Columbia University, the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and the University of Udine).

Vasile Maniu - Monografie istorică, Editura Facla, Timişoara, 1984
Convergenţe spirituale (Studii privind relaţiile culturale şi politice în Europa Centrală şi de Est, 1750-1850), Editura Eminescu, Bucharest, 1986
Tentaţia lui Homo Europaeus. Geneza spiritului modern în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est, Editura Stiinţifică, Bucharest, 1991 (translated as The Temptation of Homo Europaeus, East European Monographs, Boulder, Colorado, 1993 ISBN 0880332816)
Istoria evreilor din România. Studii documentare şi teoretice, Editura Amarcord, Timişoara, 1996
Identităţi multiple în Europa regiunilor. Interculturalitatea Banatului, Editura Hestia, Timişoara, 1997
Istoria evreilor din Banat. O mărturie a multi- şi interculturalităţii Europei oriental-centrale, Editura Atlas-Du Style, Bucharest, 1999
Ideologie şi fantasmagorie. Perspective comparative asupra istoriei gîndirii politice în Europa Est-Centrală, Polirom, Iaşi, 2001
Between Words and Reality. Studies on the Politics of Recognition and Changes of Regime in Contemporary Romania, Council for Research of Values and Philosophy, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 2001 ISBN 1565181611
Neam, popor sau naţiune?, Editura Curtea Veche, Bucharest, 2004 ISBN 973-669-034-2

Dario Castiglione, The History of Political Thought in National Context, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001
Kenneth Cushner, International Perspectives on Intercultural Education, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, 1998