Promovarea folclorului românesc din Basarabia în revista „Cuget moldovenesc” [Articol]

Abstract

Numerous journals and newspapers of the 1930s, aiming at integrating into Romanian spirituality, included a series of sections related to folk culture, publishing ethno-folkloric materials and evaluating their role in cultural life, which, unfortunately, are little known to today‟s readers. A significant contribution to the understanding of the spiritual heritage of the Bassarabian villages was made by teachers, students, and pupils who were engaged in studying history based on songs, legends, customs, and the occupations of the inhabitants, etc. It was they, who, by preserving and publishing folklore, contributed to the return to the roots, to that solid foundation upon which modernity and the 21st century society were subsequently built. In this context, the Bassarabian Folklore page, a regular section of the Bălţi journal “Cuget Moldovenesc”, provided readers of the time with an extensive collection of folk songs (of longing, sorrow, love and estrangement) and incantations, which aimed to reflect the soul of the Bassarabian peasant. All these had been diligently collected by the Latin language teacher Nicolai Palamaru.