BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON MOLDOVA
in English language and by foreign authors

"Playing the Moldovans at Tennis" by Tony Hawks

Tony Hawks is an English comedian who once bet a friend that he can't beat the entire Moldovan national football team at a game of tennis.

"All I knew about Moldova were the names of eleven men printed on the inside back page of my newspaper. None of them sounded to me like they were any good at tennis"

At stake - full nudity and a severe test of Romanian singing skills.

First published in Great Britain in 2000
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Michael Palin, the Former Monty Python star is traveling around the New Europe, visiting Moldova and Transdniestr among others.

"Day Forty-six: Chisinau, Moldova

I look out of my hotel window in downtown Chisinau (pronounced Kish-i-now), expecting a panorama of Soviet drabness but all I can see is a sylvan carpet stretching across the city. Below me is a park, full of fine, tall trees, into which people are disappearing with various bits of equipment. I mean to ask the staff what's going on but they don't encourage contact." More of the book and photos find on Michael's website

Lonely Planet "EUROPE ON A SHOESTRING", 5th edition, March 2007

Lonely Planet "ROMANIA & MOLDOVA" by Leif Peterson, May 2007

A lot of information about Romania, but only few papers on Moldova and Transdniestr

"Lost Province - Adventures In A Moldovan Family" by Stephen Henighan

Moldova described by a Canadian author who lived with a Moldovan family as an English teacher. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels he’s an unnerving disappointment for many Moldovans, especially to the MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei. The author doesn’t own his own home, is unable to use his English to communicate with singer Michael Jackson, and has inadequate knowledge of the prices of the latest North American gadgets. As a Canadian, Henighan feels at home in this nation adrift. There is interesting information about the tremendous difficulties and politics of language.

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"The Moldovans and subtitled: Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture" by Charles King

This American Assistant Professor was part funded by Oxford University to produce the most authoritative examination of Moldova and its history. A review of the history of Moldova up to, during, and after the transition to independence from the Soviet Union. While replete with scholarly notes and bibliography, it is also readily accessable to the non-specialist seeking to understand this very interesting country.

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Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans (Paperback) by Albert Kern

Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Albert Kern is a must read for anyone whose ancestors were born or lived in Bessarabia. Those Germans from Russia whose direct line does not stem from Bessarabia will also benefit from the insight written by many people of the area. The descriptive writings about the history, immigration, and then the resettlement during World War II, grips you with the smell of the earth, the blue of the sky, and the wrenching sadness, when they must leave their land, home, animals and all they possess. The articles on more than 100 colonies and estates, are written by the people who lived and served in various capacities in the area. The voices of experience and daily living, pictures of homes, churches, and colony life. It includes one of the best lists of site locations of German Parishes in Bessarabia. The Honor List of Missing in Action and Deaths in WWI and WWII lists hundreds and hundreds of names of sons and fathers of all the various colonies.

Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (The Jewish Genealogy Series) by Miriam Weiner

Miriam Weiner, a courageous and brilliant historian and archivist, has haunted the archives of Eastern Europe, painstakingly piecing together the world that was. Here she has memorialized hundreds of shtetls and towns through document examples and photographs.

In addition to providing the first tangible inventory of what the regional archives hold, in regard to the history of Jewish families, this book gives a wonderful pictorial overview of the area. It does so by providing photos of the places the families inhabited in the past, contrasted, in many instances, with how those same places appear now. The vivid past jumps off the pages of this beautifully formatted book, just as the lure of the book's vast archive document inventory tempts the reader with its research possibilities for the future. This book is a must for anyone contemplating research into their family history in Ukraine and Moldova, and a treasure for those who are merely curious about the world Jewish ancestors lived in and left behind.

Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom (Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History) by Edward H. Judge

Judge's book covers the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. In seven chapters, the author lays out the background of the Jewish question in Russia, profiles the city of Kishinev, narrates the events leading up to and included in the pogrom, and analyzes its causes and effects

Bessarabia and Bukovina (Publisher: East European Monographs, October, 1983 ) by Nicolas Dima

Moldova and the Transdnestr Republic (East European Monographs, September, 2001) by Nicolas Dima

Nicholas Dima provides a concise historical background of Moldova from its years as a territory of the Soviet empire to the post-Soviet era. The core of the book details the political upheaval of the 1980s, the independence of Moldova. Dima blaims Moscow attempting to regain its former geopolitical power by means of assistance to the self-proclaimed Transdnestr region of Moldova.

The Gagauz (Peoples of the Caucasus Handbooks) (Hardcover) by Harun Gungor, Mustafa Argunsah

ARTICLES:

"The Ex-soviet state where communism is quietly thriving" and "The tiny state where the hammer and sickle still fly" by Christopher James, Morning Star, December 2005.
"Transdniestr: the country that doesn't exist" by Nick Bradshow, Esquire magazine, July 2005
"Organ traffic in Moldova: livers lost" by Martin Adler, Swedish magazine "Grande reportagem", 12 March, 2005;
"Holidays in the danger zone: places that don't exist" BBC television programme on Transnistria and Moldova, 2 February, 2005
April 1903: the Kishinev pogrom. : An article from: Midstream by Yehuda Khaver

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