1st Edition
In Search of Romanian Jewry Before, During, and After the Holocaust
Part I – Introduction and Historical Overview
Chapter 1 - Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz – Introduction: Romania in Historical Hierarchy
Chapter 2 – Radu Ioanid – The Vanished World of Romanian Jewry
Part II – War and Violence
Chapter 3 - Diana Dumitru - Six Modes of Violence: Jewish Mass Killings in Territories Under Romanian Control
Part III - Prewar and Wartime Jewish Life: Art as Identity and Resistance
Chapter 4 - Felicia Waldman – Escaping Reality Through Art: Jewish Modernist Architects in 20th-Century Bucharest
Chapter 5 - Diana I. Popescu – Romanian Jewish Artists: An Antifascist Stance
Chapter 6 - Olga Ştefan – Reflections on Resistance Through Art and Culture in the Vapniarka Camp
Part IV - Postwar Jewish Life: Women, Children, and Testimonies
Chapter 7 - Sylvia Hershcovitz – Gender Aspects, Partnership, and Outcomes – The Role of Women in Zionist Youth Movements in Romania: 1944–1949
Chapter 8 - Ionela Ana Dăsculțu – Faces of Resilience: The Untold Stories of Jewish Orphans of Transnistria Photographed by Zoltan Kluger
Chapter 9 - Eugenia Mihalcea – Before the Silence: The 1946 World Jewish Congress Survey and the Documentation of Transnistria
Chapter 10 - Paula-Greta Barak – The Hersh Segal Collection: Children's Testimonies from 1946 to 1947
Part V - Memory of the Holocaust: Places, Myths, Memorialization
Chapter 11 - Astrid Rottman – Imprints and Places: A Mnemonic Map of Bucharest
Chapter 12 - Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz – Why Transnistria Became the "Forgotten Holocaust" and How It Is Slowly Being Remembered Again
Chapter 13 - Ana Bârbulescu – The Killing of Christ, Satan Allies, and Freckles: Antisemitic Myths in Romanian Folk Literature
Chapter 14 – Simon Geissbühler – Literary Representations of the Holocaust in Romania by Survivors: Weissglass, Appelfeld, Manea
Part VI - Family History and Family Memory
Chapter 15 - Veronica Rozenberg – Posthumous Justice
Chapter 16 - Vered Tohar – Myth and Folklore in Contemporary Works by Romanian-Israeli Women Authors
Biography
Dr. Sylvia Hershcovitz completed her PhD at Bar Ilan University, Israel. She is Spiegel Fellow of the Finkler Institute for Holocaust Research and Coordinator of its Romanian Forum. She specializes in Romanian Jewish History, Zionism and Gender Studies, and Holocaust Studies.
Prof. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has written and edited numerous books and articles about the Holocaust and its aftermath.
