Jewish resistance to "Romanianization", 1940-44 / Ștefan Cristian Ionescu, Chapman University, USA.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ionescu, Ștefan Cristian, 1976- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the history of genocide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Romania--History--20th century.

Jews.

Antisemitism.

History.

Jews--Persecutions.

Romania.

Jews--Persecutions--Romania--History--20th century.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Antisemitism--Romania--History--20th century.

Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.

Politics and government.

Romania--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 267 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-259) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781137484581

1137484586

OCLC:

891610539

Publisher Number:

99963131446