From Romania to Israel 

Saving Jewish Lives from the Darkest Days in Bucharest 

An Evening with Ambassador Alfred Moses, in Discussion with Celebrated Journalist and Author, Sarah Wildman 

In the mid-1970s, Alfred Moses learned that there was a pocket of Jewish life all but forgotten by the world, tucked behind the Iron curtain. Not the Soviet Union: Romania, under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. For 13 years, Moses quietly shepherded visas to trapped Romanian Jews, enabling thousands to make aliyah to Israel. His activism didn’t stop there. In the early 1990s, he was appointed ambassador to Romania. He spent three years in the post, helping, as he later put it “move Romania from darkness to light.”

Adas Israel is pleased to invite you to a very special evening with Ambassador Alfred Moses—lawyer, Navy vet, former president of the American Jewish Committee, father of four, and quiet Moses to the Jews of Romania. His book, Bucharest Diary: Romania's Journey from Darkness to Light, navigates the decades he spent working to address the needs of a nation. In conversation with Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandmother Left Behind and host of the Foreign Policy Podcast, First Person.