Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944–1950
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Biographical note
Stefan Cristian Ionescu is the Theodore Zev and Alice R. Weiss-Holocaust Educational Foundation Visiting Associate Professor in Holocaust Studies at the Department of History at Chapman University. He has particular research interests in the Holocaust and Jewish-non-Jewish relations in twentieth century Romania. His previous publications include Jewish Resistance to 'Romanianization': 1940–1944 (2015).'This landmark study of Romanian Jewish survivors' efforts to reclaim their homes and businesses draws upon Ionescu's meticulous research and his insight and compassion. It tells many stories: the international politics of Allied pressure on Romania; the domestic politics of the consolidation of Romania's communist regime; the institution of new repressive policies by that regime. At its heart, however, stand the survivors and their amazing agency, tenacity, and resourcefulness.' Debórah Dwork, The City University of New York
'This book tells the intricate and ironic story of how in five years after the Holocaust a relatively successful, though cynical program of returning the stolen real property of Romanian Jews turned into a process of dispossession that encouraged emigration. A ground-breaking contribution to Romanian and Jewish history and to the study of both the Holocaust and the early Cold War.' Peter Hayes, Northwestern University