Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
European Review of History
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,3 (2010) 491-504
Keywords:
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
In the late 1940s-early 1950s, the communist regime of Romania was confronted with the fact that most of the Jews were unfit or did not want to adapt to the new socialist reality of Romania and wanted to emigrate. In the early 1950s, ca. 150,000 Jews emigrated from Romania to Israel. This political failure caused resentment against the Jews in the ranks of the Romanian communist leadership. In particular, authorities attempted to blacken those Jews who had emigrated or wanted to do so as criminals, and branded Jewish communists and the pro-communist Jewish Democratic Committee, which failed to stop this emigration, as "cosmopolitan".
DOI:
10.1080/13507486.2010.481953
URL:
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