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This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role of mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews and other undesired population groups from the national marketplace in transforming economic life and social relations.
List of contents
Introduction: A Marketplace Without Jews: Occupation, Everyday Economics, and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe Section 1: Architects, Planners, and Implementers of Aryanization 1. The Rise and Fall of an Aryanization Bank: The Romanian Credit Institute, 1941-1951 2. When Economics was a Racial Endeavour: The Aryanization of Jewish Stores and Businesses in Wartime Sarajevo 3. The Socioeconomics of the Final Solution in Bulgaria: A Case Study of the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs, 1942–1944 Section 2: Contestation, Competition, and Social Distance 4. Reluctant Beneficiaries of the Final Solution: Popular Responses to the Plundering of Jewish Property in Occupied Belgrade 5. Factory Purges and the Expertise Gap: How Aryanization Impeded the Construction of a “Model Workers’ Economy” in Wartime Croatia 6. “Crumbs from the Table”: Aryanization, Ethnic Competition, and the Final Solution in Wartime Osijek Section 3: Non-Jewish Aryanizations 7. Selective Resistance to Romanianization: The Coal Industry and National Minorities in the Jiu Valley, 1938–1943 8. Stealing from the “Undesired”: The Porajmos and the Plunder of Roma Property in the Independent State of Croatia 9. A Forgotten Aryanization: The Ustasha Regime, Middle-Class Serbs, and Economic Terror in Wartime Zagreb Section 4: The Challenges of Postwar Restitution and Accountability 10. “The Inhabitants Live in Our House Arbitrarily”: Confiscation and the Lack of Restitution in Hungary, 1944–1946 11. The Dispossessed: Bulgarian Jews and the “Trial of the Antisemites,” 1944–1945
About the author
Rory Yeomans is a historian of modern European history. He has taught and held fellowships at numerous institutions and universities. His publications include Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941–1945 (2013).
Summary
This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role of mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews and other undesired population groups from the national marketplace in transforming economic life and social relations.
