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 – His Excellency Dr. Radu Ioanid, Romanian Ambassador to Israel – 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 Anti-Fascist Stance
Chapter 6 - Olga Stefan – 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 Dascultu – Faces of Resilience: The Untold Stories of Jewish Orphans from 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 - Greta Barak – The Hersh Segal Collection: Children's Testimonies from 1946-1947
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 – His Excellency Dr. Simon Geissbühler, Swiss Ambassador to Israel - Literary Representations of the Holocaust in Romania by Survivors: Weissglass, Appelfeld, Manea
Part VI - Family History and Family Memory
Chapter 15 - Veronica Rosenberg - 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 a Spiegel Fellow of the Finkler Institute for Holocaust Research and a coordinator of its Romanian Forum. She specializes in Romanian Jewish History, Zionism and Gender studies, and Holocaust studies.
Prof. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the 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.
