Language:
Romanian
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust; studii şi cercetări
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,1 (2010) 113-132
Keywords:
Christianity and antisemitism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
The role of the Romanian Orthodox Church is of great importance in the creation and consolidation of the Romanian national state. During the interwar period, Romanian fascism and nationalism grew side by side with the renewal of the Orthodox Church. The fascists developed antisemitic elements and demonized the Jews; the Church, part of the establishment, lacked the moral force to prevent this process. The antisemitism implemented by the Legionary regime in 1940, and then by Antonescu's dictatorship, was only narrowly based on Nazi ideology. Romanian fascism and the Church had entirely absorbed traditional Christian antisemitism, raising it to a new dimension of cruelty. States that the Romanian Orthodox Church and clergy are, without doubt, partly responsible for the tragedy which befell Romanian Jewry.
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