In Search of Romanian Jewry Before, During, and After the Holocaust

Dr. Sylvia Hershcovitz completed her PhD at Bar Ilan University, Israel. She is a Spiegel Fellow of the Finkler Institute for Holocaust Research and a coordinator of its Romanian Forum. She specializes in Romanian Jewish History, Zionism and Gender studies, and Holocaust studies.Prof. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has written and edited numerous books and articles about the Holocaust and its aftermath.

• Part I – Introduction and Historical OverviewChapter 1 - Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz – Introduction: Romania in Historical HierarchyChapter 2 – His Excellency Dr. Radu Ioanid, Romanian Ambassador to Israel – The Vanished World of Romanian JewryPart II – War and ViolenceChapter 3 - Diana Dumitru - Six Modes of Violence: Jewish Mass Killings in Territories Under Romanian ControlPart III - Prewar and Wartime Jewish Life: Art as Identity and ResistanceChapter 4 - Felicia Waldman – Escaping Reality Through Art: Jewish Modernist Architects in 20th century BucharestChapter 5 - Diana I. Popescu – Romanian Jewish Artists: An Anti-Fascist StanceChapter 6 - Olga Stefan – Reflections on Resistance Through Art and Culture in the Vapniarka CampPart IV - Postwar Jewish Life: Women, Children, and TestimoniesChapter 7 - Sylvia Hershcovitz – Gender Aspects, Partnership, and Outcomes – The Role of Women in Zionist Youth Movements in Romania (1944-1949)Chapter 8 - Ionela Ana Dascultu – Faces of Resilience: The Untold Stories of Jewish Orphans from Transnistria Photographed by Zoltan KlugerChapter 9 - Eugenia Mihalcea – Before the Silence: The 1946 World Jewish Congress Survey and the Documentation of TransnistriaChapter 10 - Greta Barak – The Hersh Segal Collection: Children's Testimonies from 1946-1947Part V - Memory of the Holocaust: Places, Myths, MemorializationChapter 11 - Astrid Rottman – Imprints and Places: A Mnemonic Map of BucharestChapter 12 - Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Why Transnistria became "The Forgotten Holocaust", and How it is Slowly Being Remembered AgainChapter 13 - Ana Bârbulescu – The Killing of Christ, Satan Allies, and Freckles: Antisemitic Myths in Romanian Folk LiteratureChapter 14 – His Excellency Dr. Simon Geissbühler, Swiss Ambassador to Israel - Literary Representations of the Holocaust in Romania by Survivors: Weissglass, Appelfeld, ManeaPart VI - Family History and Family MemoryChapter 15 - Veronica Rosenberg - Posthumous JusticeChapter 16 - Vered Tohar – Myth and Folklore in Contemporary Works by Romanian-Israeli Women Authors