Sandu Tudor and the Christian Student Associations During the Interwar Period

• Author: Carmen Ciornea
• Position: Facultatea de Teologie, Universitatea ?Ovidius'
• Pages: 65-75

Law, Society & Organisations

Volume IV, Issue 7 (2 / 2019)

65

Carmen CIORNEA

Facultatea de Teologie – Universitatea „Ovidius”

SANDU TUDOR AND THE CHRISTIAN

STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS DURING THE

INTERWAR PERIOD

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eywords

Sandu Tudor;

Alexandru Teodorescu;

Orthodoxy;

Christian paradigm;

Association of Romanian Christian Students

Abstract

It is known that Sandu Tudor (alias Alexandru Teodorescu) belonged to the elite of the young interwar

generation, certified, in particular, by his position as a journalist. What is less known is the quality of his

ASCR membership (ASCR - the Christian Student Association in interwar Romania) in his student years.

The sources that verify this latest information are the secret police archives as well as the testimony of

Sandu Tudor himself – his autobiographical memoirs. The sources of the analysis come, in particular,

from archive documents in Romania and from the interwar press. Thus, in particular six files from A. C.

N. S. A. S. (the Archives of the National Council for studying the secret police archives) covered the field

of documentation: first, the Y. M. C. A. (Young Men's Christian Association) files, but also the files of

student congresses in Romania during the period dealt with by this study. The reader should be warned

that the interpretative sketch below does not claim a substantial analysis of what the interwar young

generation meant to Great Romania. The examination of this association aims to identify conclusive data

on how the church was perceived and experienced especially by students and intellectuals during the

interwar period.

JEL Classification: I20, K49, Z12