Jewish Resistance to 'Romanianization', 1940-44

ISBN-13: 9781137484581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 282 str.

Stefan Cristian Ionescu

Opis

In order to create a productive middle class part of an ideal society based on ethno-nationalism, the Antonescu regime (1940-1944) pursued Romanianization a policy of excluding 'foreigners, ' especially Jews and Roma/Gypsies from the economic sphere through property and business seizure and exclusion from employment. Taking an inter-disciplinary approach and drawing on a variety of official and personal documents, Ionescu investigates Romanianization and the patterns of responses to that policy by gentile and Jewish inhabitants of Bucharest. Ionescu argues that, though by the end of the Antonescu regime Romanianization had taken a harsh toll on Jews and Roma houses had been expropriated, owners evicted, building and companies sold to gentiles, and employees fired the authorities had failed to achieve complete Romanianization of real estate, businesses, and jobs. A crucial reason for this failure was the illegal (sabotage) and legal resistance conducted by Jews and Roma."

Recenzje

"Stefan Cristian Ionescu's book deals precisely with one of these developments in which intellectual, social, and material history became primarily enmeshed with the history of law. ... Ionescu's work offers an important exploratory inquiry into the daily life of Romanians, Jews, and Roma under the shadow of Holocaust. Through a well-documented and attentive analysis of the institutional, political, and sociological aspects of Romanianization, he enables us to clarify the limits of this project and its ultimate failure." (Cosmin Sebastian Cercel, H-Nationalism, networks.h-net.org, April, 2016)

Spis treści

List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations (acronyms) of Institutions and Archives 1. Introduction: World War II Bucharest and its Jews 2. Romanianization legislation: Concepts, (Mis)Interpretations, and Conflicts 3. The Romanianization Bureaucracy 4. The Beneficiaries of Romanianization 5. Romanianization versus Germanization 6. Deportation and Robbery: The Roma Targets of Romanianization 7. Jewish Legal Resistance to Romanianization 8. Sabotaging the Process of Romanianization 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

Stefan Ionescu is currently an Associate Research Fellow at the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Clark University in Worcester, MA, USA and is the author of articles in such journals as Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History and Culture and Psychology.