State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust - The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union

This book explores regional variations in civilians' attitudes toward the Jewish population in Romania and the occupied Soviet Union.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Experiencing the Russian Empire; 2. Bessarabia within the Romanian state - antisemitism reframed; 3. Committed to change - fighting antisemitism and integrating Jews in Soviet Transnistria; 4. Under assault - civilians' behavior toward Jews during the Holocaust in Bessarabia; 5. Jews and their neighbors in occupied Transnistria; 6. Substantiating and explaining the differences.

About the author

Diana Dumitru is Associate Professor of History in the World History Department at Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University, Moldova. She has been awarded prestigious fellowships, including the Gerda Henkel Stiftung fellowship, the International Institute for Holocaust Research Postdoctoral Fellowship for Study and Research at Yad Vashem, and the Rosenzweig Family Fellowship for research at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. She has authored over twenty articles and two books and, in 2012, she received the Mary Parker Follett Award for the best article or chapter published in the field of politics and history awarded by the American Political Science Association.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Dumitru, Dumitru Diana
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107583368
• ISBN: 978-1-107-58336-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Romania, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era