Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Perception of the Holocaust in Historiography and in the Romanian Media....Pages 19-45
The Iaşi Pogrom in Curzio Malaparte’s Kaputt: Between History and Fiction....Pages 47-56
The Cernăuţi Ghetto, the Deportations, and the Decent Mayor....Pages 57-75
“Bottles in the Sea”: Letters of Deported Jews in Moghilev (Transnistria), November–December 1941....Pages 77-89
Survival and Memory: Arnold Daghani’s Verbal and Visual Diaries....Pages 91-117
Mihail Sebastian and Mircea Eliade: Chronicle of a Broken Friendship....Pages 119-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Paul Celan’s Aesthetics of Transnational Remembrance....Pages 137-155
Homescapes of Childhood: Aharon Appelfeld’s Life Stories of czernowitz....Pages 157-173
Norman Manea: “I am not a Writer of the Holocaust”....Pages 175-194
Elie Wiesel’s Night: The Death of Hope and Romania’s Problematic Moral Stand in Relation to the Holocaust....Pages 195-208
“The People of Israel Lives!” Performing the Shoah on Post-War Bucharest’s Yiddish Stages....Pages 209-223
Framing the Silence: The Romanian Jewish and Romani Holocaust in Filmic Representations....Pages 225-249
Back Matter....Pages 251-275