1st Edition
A Marketplace Without Jews Aryanization and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe
Introduction: A Marketplace Without Jews: Occupation, Everyday Economics, and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe
Rory Yeomans
Section 1: Architects, Planners, and Implementers of Aryanization
1. The Rise and Fall of an Aryanization Bank: The Romanian Credit Institute, 1941-1951
Stefan Cristian Ionescu
2. When Economics was a Racial Endeavour: The Aryanization of Jewish Stores and Businesses in Wartime Sarajevo
Sanja Gladanac-Petrović
3. The Socioeconomics of the Final Solution in Bulgaria: A Case Study of the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs, 1942–1944
Roumen Avramov
Section 2: Contestation, Competition, and Social Distance
4. Reluctant Beneficiaries of the Final Solution: Popular Responses to the Plundering of Jewish Property in Occupied Belgrade
Rade Ristanović and Aleksandar Stojanović
5. Factory Purges and the Expertise Gap: How Aryanization Impeded the Construction of a “Model Workers’ Economy” in Wartime Croatia
Rory Yeomans
6. “Crumbs from the Table”: Aryanization, Ethnic Competition, and the Final Solution in Wartime Osijek
Hrvoje Volner
Section 3: Non-Jewish Aryanizations
7. Selective Resistance to Romanianization: The Coal Industry and National Minorities in the Jiu Valley, 1938–1943
Anca Glont
8. Stealing from the “Undesired”: The Porajmos and the Plunder of Roma Property in the Independent State of Croatia
Danijel Vojak
9. A Forgotten Aryanization: The Ustasha Regime, Middle-Class Serbs, and Economic Terror in Wartime Zagreb
Filip Škiljan and Vlatka Dugački
Section 4: The Challenges of Postwar Restitution and Accountability
10. “The Inhabitants Live in Our House Arbitrarily”: Confiscation and the Lack of Restitution in Hungary, 1944–1946
Borbala Klacsmann
11. The Dispossessed: Bulgarian Jews and the “Trial of the Antisemites,” 1944–1945
Nadège Ragaru
Biography
Rory Yeomans is a historian of modern European history. He has taught and held fellowships at numerous institutions and universities. His publications include Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941–1945 (2013).
