Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Ionescu, Ștefan
Year: 2010
Title: Implementing the Romanisation of employment in 1941 Bucharest. Bureaucratic and economic sabotage of the "aryanisation" of the Romanian economy
Journal: Holocaust Studies. A Journal of Culture and History
Volume: 16
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 39-64
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, Antonescu regime, tolerance, romanization, nationalism, discrimination, employment, economy, public opinion, antisemitism, Bucharest
Abstract: (En) In order to create an ideal society based on ethno-nationalism, the Antonescu regime pursued 'Romanisation' - a policy of excluding 'foreigners', especially Jewish Romanians, from the economic sphere through property seizure and exclusion from employment. In particular, the Romanisation of employment proved to be extremely difficult to implement. The different perspectives on Romanisation and the practical problems it faced created significant tensions and triggered multiple, and often contradictory, responses from various groups of Bucuresteni involved in the process. Despite their different interests and diverging perspectives, one important feature characterised the behaviour of many Bucuresteni involved in the process: the sabotage of Romanisation. This article investigates the history and the motivations for this sabotage, and in doing so complicates the history of economic exclusion which often preceded or accompanied the genocide of the Jews in Eastern Europe.
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