The Cultural Elite and Antisemitic Rhetoric in Interwar Romania
Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts;
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Product details:
- Publisher Polirom
- Date of Publication 4 November 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783032015723
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages297 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations IX, 297 p. 700
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Long description:
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This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the antisemitic rhetoric expressed by the interwar Romanian cultural elite, examining eight public voices of the period (A. C. Cuza, N. Iorga, N. Crainic, N. Ionescu, O. Goga, N. Paulescu, M. Vulca?nescu and V. Horia) and discussing their position regarding the Jewish minority. This is done in correlation with the codification of idioms they used to frame identity and the symbolic borders they constructed to define both belongingness and exclusion. What were the diacritical marks used to frame Jewishness and how does this correlate with the identity narrative ascribed to the Romanian people and to the generic Other? As all eight figures were strongly involved in different political projects, the book moves from rhetoric to action, analyzing the political ?solutions? they supported in regard to the ?Jewish problem?. The book argues for both the centrality of such antisemitic rhetoric in interwar Romania and, also its local specificity. It proves that such sentiment was present and widespread among the cultural elite, a fact that explains both the collapse of Romanian democracy near the end of the interwar period and the full participation of the Romanian state in the Holocaust.
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1. Introduction.- 2. Mircea Vulca?nescu: The (Dis)covering of a Problematic Past.- 3. Nicolae Iorga and the Jews: On how the ?Hydra? became our Brother and then a ?Hydra? Again.- 4. Nicolae Paulescu: Divine Will, Jewish Degeneration, and Future Promises of Peace.- 5. A.C. Cuza: The Jews, and the Struggle against Satan.- 6. Octavian Goga: Same Blood, Same Soul, Same Enemy.- 7. Nae Ionescu: The Nation, God and the Jews.- 8. Nichifor Crainic: The Royal Kin of the Earth and the Invasion of the Parasites.- 9. Vintila? Horia: The Fascist Past and an Embellished Posterity.- 10. Right-wing Radicalism, a Cultural Movement of the Interwar Period, at its End.
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