Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
49,3 (2019) 200-219
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish councils
;
Jewish leadership
Abstract:
The Jewish leadership in Romanian territories during World War II sought to change antisemitic legislation, stop deportations, and ensure the survival of the deportees in the camps and ghettos. Unfortunately, they found their communities attacked from various sides and their petitions largely unheeded by the Antonescu wartime government. When the Federation of Jewish Communities was replaced by the government-controlled Jewish Center, Bucharest lawyer Wilhelm Filderman and former Federation members found other avenues by which to continue their work. I analyze their major successes as well as their failures in regard to legislation, deportations, and survival of deportees through the different phases of the war to reveal the dominating influence of regionalism among Romanian Jewish leadership.
DOI:
10.1080/13501674.2019.1718948
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