Please answer the following question: What key details about benjamin fondane  can be extracted from the following bio?  Bio: benjamin fondane -lrb- -rrb- or benjamin fundoianu -lrb- ; born benjamin wechsler , wexler or vecsler , first name also beniamin or barbu , usually abridged to b. ; november 14 , 1898 -- october 2 , 1944 -rrb- was a romanian and french poet , critic and existentialist philosopher , also noted for his work in film and theater . known from his romanian youth as a symbolist poet and columnist , he alternated neoromantic and expressionist themes with echoes from tudor arghezi , and dedicated several poetic cycles to the rural life of his native moldavia . fondane , who was of jewish romanian extraction and a nephew of jewish intellectuals elias and moses schwartzfeld , participated in both minority secular jewish culture and mainstream romanian culture . during and after world war i , he was active as a cultural critic , avant-garde promoter and , with his brother-in-law armand pascal , manager of the theatrical troupe `` insula '' . fondane began a second career in 1923 , when he moved to paris . affiliated with surrealism , but strongly opposed to its communist leanings , he moved on to become a figure in jewish existentialism and a leading disciple of lev shestov . his critique of political dogma , rejection of rationalism , expectation of historical catastrophe and belief in the soteriological force of literature were outlined in his celebrated essays on charles baudelaire and arthur rimbaud , as well as in his final works of poetry . his literary and philosophical activities helped him build close relationships with other intellectuals : shestov , emil cioran , david gascoyne , jacques maritain , victoria ocampo , ilarie voronca etc. . in parallel , fondane also had a career in cinema : a film critic and a screenwriter for paramount pictures , he later worked on `` rapt '' with dimitri kirsanoff , and directed the since-lost film `` tararira '' in argentina . a prisoner of war during the fall of france , fondane was released and spent the occupation years in clandestinity . he was eventually captured and...
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- imagesize is 250px- death place is auschwitz-birkenau -lrb- oświęcim -rrb- , poland- period is 1912 -- ca. 1944- caption is fondane-fundoianu , ca. 1915- influences is vasile tudor arghezi , george bacovia , charles baudelaire , henri alecsandri bergson , george coșbuc , mihai eminescu , jules de , gaultier , andré gide , octavian goga , remy de grigore gourmont , jacob gropper , nathaniel hawthorne , homer , alexandrescu horace , nicolae iorga , Ștefan octavian iosif , francis , jammes , søren kierkegaard , lucien lévy-bruhl , eugen lovinescu dimitrie , alexandru macedonski , ion minulescu , arthur rimbaud , anghel william shakespeare , lev shestov , sophocles , avram steuerman-rodion , , paul verlaine- death date is 2 october 1944- genre is biography , idyll , lyric poetry , memoir , ode , , pastiche , pastoral , prose poem , short story , epic sonnet , travel writing , verse drama poetry , essay , free verse- influenced is andrei ilarie voronca codrescu , david gascoyne , nichita stănescu ,- pseudonym is f. i. hașir , isaac laquedem , const . meletie , benjamin mielușon , i. g. ofir , al. vilara , alex. , vilara , von doian diomed , dio , funfurpan ,- birth date is 14 november 1898- name is benjamin -lrb- wexler , vecsler -rrb- fondane -lrb- fundoianu -rrb- barbu fundoianu benjamin wechsler- movement is neoromanticism , surrealism , constructivism , '' contimporanul '' , '' , sburătorul '' symbolism , modernism , avant-garde , expressionism- nationality is romanian , french- image is fondane in his youth.jpg- birth place is iași , romania- occupation is poet philosopher , translator , theater producer , screenwriter , film , director , librarian , news presenter dramatist , opinion journalist , critic ,