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Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian HolocaustThe Perception of the Holocaust in Historiography and in the Romanian Media

Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust: The Perception of the Holocaust in... [The historiography and the memory of the Holocaust, of the Romanians, and of Romanian Jews can be understood only through knowledge of the peculiarities of the Holocaust in Romania within the wider context of Holocaust Studies. Certain characteristic features of the history of the modernization of Romania in the twentieth century turned the “Jewish problem” into an ideologically active element, present on a large scale in the public sphere. Unquestionably, the tragedy of the Romanian Jewry was bound up with the European context, but it also had its own manifestations because of the political regime in Romania from 1938 to 1944. Six decades ago, Lucretiu Pătrăşcanu accurately remarked that “anti-Semitism in Romania still remains a Romanian phenomenon, which should be examined in its specific nature, and not only in what it imitates” (1944, 171). Romanians never embraced this research project; instead, they explained the Romanian Holocaust by blaming it on imported Fascism. One of the most frequently invoked reasons for this neglect is the ideology of national Communism; in this view, everything Romanian was good, while the origin of evil was always from outside. According to this preconception, risen to the rank of a “theory” of history, atrocities either did not occur in Romania from 1938 to 1944 or, if they happened, were caused by external forces.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian HolocaustThe Perception of the Holocaust in Historiography and in the Romanian Media

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Glajar, Valentina; Teodorescu, Jeanine
Florian, Alexandru
Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust — Oct 18, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
ISBN
978-1-349-29451-0
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19 –45
DOI
10.1057/9780230118416_2
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Abstract

[The historiography and the memory of the Holocaust, of the Romanians, and of Romanian Jews can be understood only through knowledge of the peculiarities of the Holocaust in Romania within the wider context of Holocaust Studies. Certain characteristic features of the history of the modernization of Romania in the twentieth century turned the “Jewish problem” into an ideologically active element, present on a large scale in the public sphere. Unquestionably, the tragedy of the Romanian Jewry was bound up with the European context, but it also had its own manifestations because of the political regime in Romania from 1938 to 1944. Six decades ago, Lucretiu Pătrăşcanu accurately remarked that “anti-Semitism in Romania still remains a Romanian phenomenon, which should be examined in its specific nature, and not only in what it imitates” (1944, 171). Romanians never embraced this research project; instead, they explained the Romanian Holocaust by blaming it on imported Fascism. One of the most frequently invoked reasons for this neglect is the ideology of national Communism; in this view, everything Romanian was good, while the origin of evil was always from outside. According to this preconception, risen to the rank of a “theory” of history, atrocities either did not occur in Romania from 1938 to 1944 or, if they happened, were caused by external forces.]

Published: Oct 18, 2015

Keywords: Jewish Population; Political Regime; Jewish School; Holocaust Denial; Romanian People

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