Dr Alexandru Bar is a cultural historian and Research Associate in the Department of History of Art at the University of York. He was recently awarded the Ștefan Odobleja Fellowship at the New Europe College, Bucharest, for the 2025–2026 academic year. His research bridges art history, Jewish studies, and cultural history, with a particular focus on the avant-garde and modernist movements of the twentieth century. He completed his M.A. at Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. at the University of Leeds, where his dissertation examined the complex relationship between Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, exploring how their multilayered identities shaped both their artistic production and their social positioning. Focusing on Jewish avant-garde figures such as Janco and Tzara, Dr Bar interrogates the intersections of art, identity, and trauma, challenging universalist narratives of modernism by foregrounding its regional tensions, cultural frictions, and contested meanings. His current research investigates Marcel Janco’s transcultural legacy—from his contributions to European modernism and his responses to the Holocaust, to his postwar engagement with vernacular architecture and heritage preservation in Israel. Among his recent work is “Dada Lingua Franca: The Linguistic Fate of Tristan Tzara and Raoul Hausmann” (with Michael White), in Cannibalizing the Canon: Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe (Brill, 2024).