Jewish Resistance to 'Romanianization', 1940-44

Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy.

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)

Auteur

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.

Contenu
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