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Independence, money, and ethnic purity in the Jewry policy during the Ceaușescu years
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12709666 |
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| Authors | Amedeo Gasparini (0000-0002-5899-1359, independent scholar, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267-275 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-5886 • E-ISSN: 1472-5894 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14725886.2023.2212283 |
| OpenAlex | W4377989263 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 5 |
Nicolae Ceaușescu’s policy towards the Jews was dictated by the necessity to appear autonomous vis-à-vis Moscow, maintain the MFN status with the U.S., and the desire for an ethnic-homogeneous Romania. The Jewish policy under Ceaușescu reflected his political necessities and opportunism. His pragmatism imposed him to go beyond ideologies and beliefs. His goal was only personal enrichment among the Western and Eastern blocks. 235,000 Jews emigrated from Romania to Israel under these Israel-Romania underground agreements. This practice ended with the regime’s fall in 1989. In Communist Romania, there was no right for people to migrate: Jews could do so if Israel paid. And the payments mainly served to clear Romania’s trade deficits. Ceaușescu’s policy towards the Jews reflected his being a maverick, among East and West, but was also rooted in historical Romanian religious and political antisemitism
Antisemitism · Communism · Economic history · Economics · Ethnic group · Ideology · Independence (probability theory · Judaism · Opportunism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Romanian · Sociology · History · Interdisciplinary Studies and Sociocultural Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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