[1] He is also member of the educational board of the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania[2] and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (Academic Studies Press, Boston).

He is the father of Amana Ferro Oisteanu, EU public affairs expert (Brussels) and the brother of American poet Valery Oișteanu (New York).

[4] During the early 1970s, he was active in Ceata Melopoică, an experimental music and concept band led by Mircea Florian.

[5] In 1997 he took a course in Jewish Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (lecturers: Moshe Idel and Michael Silber).

Between 1997 and 1999, he had a research grant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.