Ştefan Cristian Ionescu

Biographic Data

ID4228810
NAMEŞtefan Cristian Ionescu
GIVEN NAMESŞtefan Cristian
FAMILY NAMEIonescu
SIGNATUREIONESCU Ş C
AFFILIATIONSChapman University
ORCID0000-0002-0899-2628
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania

    Ştefan Cristian IonescuARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2026

  • Roundtable

    Ştefan Cristian IonescuARTICLEJournal of Romanian Studies2026

    This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

  • Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania

    Open AccessŞtefan Cristian IonescuBOOKJustice and Restitution in…2025

    On 23rd August 1944, following the collapse of the pro-Nazi dictatorship of Ion Antonescu, Romania changed sides and abandoned the Axis to join the Allies. Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania explores the hopes, struggles and disappointments of Jewish communities in Romania seeking to rebuild their lives after the Holocaust. Focusing on the efforts of survivors to recuperate rights and property, Stefan Cristian Ionescu demonstrates how t…

  • Resisters

    Open AccessŞtefan Cristian IonescuARTICLEGerman History2025

    A review of Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany, by Wolf Gruner.

  • These Are not Ordinary Criminals!” The First War Crimes Trial at the People's Tribunal and Its Implications in Post-Holocaust Romania

    Open AccessŞtefan Cristian IonescuARTICLECentral European History2025References: 10

    This article examines the neglected war crimes trials of Holocaust perpetrators that took place at the People's Tribunal in early postwar Romania, focusing especially on the first trial (the “Macici group”). The article shows that in spite of the political interferences by the new pro-communist regime and the USSR, the Macici group trial in particular, and the first war crimes trials in general, were not Stalinist show trials or fake trials and t…

  • Romania’s Holy War

    Open AccessŞtefan Cristian IonescuARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2024

    Journal Article Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust. Grant T Harward Get access Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust, Grant T Harward, Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History Series (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021), 360 pp., hardcover $47.95, ebook $31.99. Stefan C Ionescu Stefan C Ionescu Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Email: [email protected] Search …

  • Debates on the Restitution of Romanianized Property during the Antonescu Regime, 1940–1944

    Open AccessŞtefan Cristian IonescuARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2020

    Many Jewish and non-Jewish Romanians seriously considered and debated the reversal of Romanian seizures of Jewish property (Romanianization) during the Antonescu regime. While the former hoped for full restitution, the majority of the latter opposed the return of Romanianized property. In particular, beneficiaries of Romanianization feared losing their recent acquisitions. Nonetheless, some Jews managed to recover property during the Antonescu re…

  • Perceptions of Legality during the Antonescu Regime, 1940–1944

    Ştefan Cristian IonescuARTICLEJournal of Romanian Studies2020

  • Theorists of Economic Nationalism in 1930s–1940s Romania

    Open AccessŞtefan Cristian IonescuARTICLENationalities Papers2019References: 7

    This article examines the main theorists of economic nationalism (Romanianization) and their ideas promoting protectionism and anti-Semitism in 1930s–1940s Romania. Trying to offer a rational scientific justification for excluding foreigners, especially Jews, and increasing the role of ethnic Romanians in the economy, major scholars of economics offered solutions toward successful Romanianization. Because some of these economists were also influe…

  • Loyal citizens or dangerous stateless refugees? The ‘Armenian Question’ in World War II Romania, 1940–44

    Ştefan Cristian IonescuARTICLEJournal of Genocide Research2017

    After the massacres and genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, thousands of Armenian refugees arrived in Romania and reinvigorated the local minority group (native Armenians), which at that time was mostly assimilated. While native Armenians were citizens, the refugees were stateless people holding Nansen passports. From the 1930s on, and especially during the Antonescu regime (1940–44), the legal status of Armenians, especially of Nansen re…

  • Implementing the Romanisation of Employment in 1941 Bucharest

    Ştefan Cristian IonescuARTICLEHolocaust Studies2010

    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 te…

  • Commentary

    Open AccessŞtefan Cristian Ionescu, Ștefan IonescuARTICLECulture & Psychology2009References: 2

    Sen and Wagner (2009) advance the thesis of the centrality of fundamentalist belief systems in violence. I provide further explication of their thesis by looking at the Romanian case. The explosion of violence around 1940—41, the years when Romania joined the Axis and entered the Second World War cannot be understood without taking into account the historical, political, social, and cultural factors that created the radical atmosphere of xenophob…