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Public Perceptions of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Romania
Author(s): Waldman, Felicia; Chionveanu, Mihai
Editor(s): Himka, John-Paul; Michlic, Joanna Beata
Date: 2013
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Commemoration, Post-1989
A "zsidókérdés" és a holokauszt a román tankönyvekben (1998-2002)
Translated Title: The "Jewish Question" and the Holocaust in Romanian textbooks (1998-2002)
Author(s): Waldman, Felicia
Date: 2003
Topics: Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Holocaust Education in Post-Communist Romania
Author(s): Waldman, Felicia
Date: 2004
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Education
Abstract: As Israeli historian Leon Volovici has pointed out in a recent article, Romania is nowadays facing a point in time marked by the concurrent presence of a prolific nationalistic media with strong anti-Semitic accents and a swell of events dedicated to the history of its Jews. This remarkable paradox is perhaps just one more example of the originality of Romania’s post-communist transition, the more so since the object of both trends is becoming less and less numerous every day: there are only about 9,000, mostly elderly Jews living in contemporary Romania. After 45 years of “relative silence” imposed by the communists and eight more years of “relevant silence” imposed by the neo-communists, as of 1998 the Holocaust is finally mentioned and discussed, but “in the third person”, as it were: it’s true, it happened, but not in Romania!
From Taboo to Acceptance: Romania, the Jews, and the Holocaust
Author(s): Waldman, Felicia
Date: 2008
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Commemoration, Jewish Heritage
Abstract: The existence of Jews on Romanian territory was suppressed under Communism. Romania’s complicity in the Holocaust was a taboo. In the post-Communist era, attitudes were slow in changing. President Ion Iliescu’s remark that there had been no Holocaust on Romanian territory represented a particularly low point. Only with the integration of Romania into international organisations and the convening of the Elie Wiesel commission of inquiry did the climate change. Now Romania is increasingly willing to accept responsibility, to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, and to integrate the country’s Jewish heritage into its national remembrance culture.
Jewish Studies in Romania
Author(s): Waldman, Felicia; Shafir, Michael
Date: 2011
Topics: Jewish Studies, Universities / Higher Education, Main Topic: Other