Diana Dumitru: Jews in Soviet Moldavia and Romania after WWII: What We Know and What We Don’t Know

Описание: This talk summarizes the current state of historical knowledge about Jewish life in Soviet Moldavia and socialist Romania after the Second World War and introduces the author’s own research on Jewish life under late Stalinism in Soviet Moldavia. Archival sources from Chișinău and Moscow indicate that developments in this republic followed a trajectory somewhat different from the tendencies displayed at the time in the Soviet capital. It will discuss both the opportunities and limitations faced by Jews in the MSSR, placing these phenomena in the framework of Soviet nationalities policies and its accompanying personnel policies. The second part of the presentation will explore the main areas of interest of historians of Jewish life in postwar Romania as well as their main findings. The presentation intends to identify and encourage further explorations of neglected and understudied topics related to Jewish history in these two regions.