Zerbrochene Nachbarschaft
Das deutsch-judische Verhaltnis in Rumanien (1918-1938)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9420314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Hitchins, Hildrun Glass |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 553-553 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2649861 |
| OpenAlex | W2046139833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The changes of 1989 affected historical research on east central and eastern Europe in two respects.First, archives which had been partly closed for westerners were reopened.Second, ethnicity and nationalism were on the agenda again as research issues, but even more so as political issues.Hildrun Glass's prize-winning Ph.D. thesis Zerbrochene Nachbarschaft: Das deutsch-juedische Verhaeltnis in Rumaenien (1918Rumaenien ( -1938)), defended at the University of Munich in 1995 and awarded a prize by the Suedosteuropa-Gesellschaft in Munich, mirrors these two changes.First, the author incorporated into her body of research and evidence not only primary resources located in western, namely German, archives and libraries, but also dug up information in newly accessible Romanian archives in Bucharest, Iasi, Sibiu, and Timisoara.Second, Glass focuses on a current topic of primary significance: interethnic relations among minorities in Romania.Thus, she contributes to the growing body of research and literature on interwar east central European history.These works are used increasingly as a point of reference for social scientists and politicians, either to understand contemporary ethnic conflicts or to make allusions in recreating the national self in times of social and political transition.The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I reorganized and reshaped political and ethnic conditions.Among the nine newly established, enlarged, or territorially decreased states succeeding the multiethnic empires (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia), at least five turned into multiethnic political entities themselves.The populations comprised up to one third minority populations, thus inheriting old problems from the past.Minority issues and interethnic relations were very much on the agenda of these states in the interwar period.Prominent among them was Greater Romania, which doubled its population and size after 1918 by gaining territories from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Soviet Russia.The formerly rather homogeneous Romania thus turned into a multiethnic state.Minorities made up around 30 percent of the country's population.Glass focuses on interwar Romania's second and third largest ethnic minorities--provided one trusts the official censuses which show ethnic
Political science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2017 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |