Cilibi Moise

Born into the Jewish community in Focşani, Moise lived much of his life in Bucharest, where his family moved when he was a child.

[4] Moise traveled throughout the Danubian Principalities, and his experience in assessing people's characters, as well as his interest in memorizing catchphrases, contributed to his literary career.

Influential dramatist and short story author Ion Luca Caragiale admired his work, and especially the cohesion of his ideas.

[6] Literary historians George Călinescu[2][5] and Tudor Vianu[7] both cited Moise as a parallel to the Ottoman-born Wallachian writer Anton Pann.

[8] Samples of Moise's work formed the first part of a 1996 anthology, which listed Romanian-language Jewish literature from him to Paul Celan; the work, published by Editura Hasefer, was edited by Ţicu Goldstein (De la Cilibi Moise la Paul Celan.