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The book tells of Levi’s final days in the camp in southern Poland before his eventual return home to Turin, via numerous extended detours and meanderings through Soviet Russia, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria.

Central Europeans became especially hooked on it; by the nineteenth century, maize was the daily bread of Serbia, Rumania, and Moldavia.

At the time, the latest volume was reported to showcase the Vatican’s “attempts in 1943 to help Jews in Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Italy” but also not to answer all criticisms.

Facing the hostile ring, Israel has built links with Azerbaijan, Rumania, Greece and Cyprus, and has expanded trade with Russia, China and India.

Much of its economic ties go to Rumania- as it should be.