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Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II. This study focuses on two groups of “Bukovinians”—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—as they navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in and after 1945. Through comparisons of the narratives and self-conceptions of these groups, Resettlers and Survivors gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”

Violence against Jews, Roma, and other persecuted minorities in the multiethnic borderlands of Eastern, Central, and Southeastern Europe.Includes:Anca Filipovici: The Rise of Antisemitism in the Multiethnic Borderland of Bukovina: Student Movements and Interethnic Clashes at the University of Cernăuți (1922-1938)Doris Bergen: Saving Christianity, Killing Jews: German Religious Campaigns and the Holocaust in the BorderlandsLinda Margittai: Hungarians, Germans, Serbs, and Jews in Wartime Vojvodina: Patterns of Attitudes and Behaviors towards Jews in a Multiethnic Border Region of HungaryGoran Miljan: The "Ideal Nation-State" for the "Ideal New Croat": The Ustasha Youth and the Aryanization of Jewish Property in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945Svetlana Suveica: Appropriation of Jewish Property in the Borderlands: Local Public Employees in Bessarabia during the Romanian HolocaustAnna Wylegała: Listening to Contradictory Voices: Jewish, Polish, and Ukrainian Narratives on Jewish Property in Nazi-Occupied Eastern GaliciaMiriam Schulz: Gornisht oyser verter?!: The Yiddish Language as a Mirror of Interethnic Relations and Dynamics of Violence in German-Occupied Eastern Europe

In 37 kurzen Kapiteln bietet das Buch »Rumänien. Geschichte, Literaturkritik, Erinnerungen« einen Überblick über die jüdische Kultur und das jüdisches Leben in Rumänien ab dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis kurz nach dem 2. Weltkrieg. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf jiddischsprachiger Kulturarbeit in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren im neu entstandenen Großrumänien. Herzstück des Buches sind 47 biografische Porträts wichtiger Persönlichkeiten dieser Epoche. Thematisiert werden auch Orte und Schlüsselmomente der rumänisch-jüdischen Geschichte. Nicht zuletzt werden Ausschnitte von Prosa und Lyrik zitiert und kommentiert, die in der annotierten Edition in der Mehrheit erstmalig ins Deutsche übertragen worden sind. Das einzigartige Kompendium vermittelt ein anschauliches Bild der jüdischen und vor allem der jiddischsprachigen Lebenswelt, die vor dem Holocaust in Osteuropa existierte.With its 37 short chapters, "Romania: History, Literary Criticism, Memories" offers an overview of Jewish life and culture in Romania from the end of the 19th century until shortly after the Second World War. The focus of Schlojme Bickel''s late work is on Yiddish-language cultural work in the 1920s and 1930s in the newly formed interwar "Greater Romania". At the heart of the book are 47 biographical portraits of important personalities of this epoch. It also covers places and key moments in Romanian-Jewish history. Last but not least, it cites and discusses prose and poetry excerpts, most of which have never before been translated into German. This unique compendium provides a vivid picture of Jewish and, in particular, Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.