Country of residence

Romania

Brief introduction

PhD candidate, Strassler Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Department of History, Clark University

Education

Master of Arts Degree (History, 2005, awarded by the Central European University, Budapest)

Academic profile

Having a bakground in law and history, I am interested in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies, particularly in property and employment rights of ethnic minorities and in the non-democratic states’ policies to breach these rigths. My research investigates the exclusion of Jews, Roma, and other domestic foreigners from the Romanian economy and society during the World War II.

Publications

• ”Legal Tools instead of Weapons: Jewish Resistance to the Romanianization of Urban Real Estate and Businesses during the Antonescu Regime,“ in Patrick Henry (ed.). Jewish Resistance to the Nazis (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2012) - (forthcoming).
• “Implementing the Romanization of Employment in 1941 Bucharest: Bureaucratic and Economic Sabotage of the ‘Aryanization’ of the Romanian Economy,” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 16, no. 1-2, Summer/Autumn (2010).
• “Myths, Narratives, and Patterns of Rumors: The Construction of “Jewish Subversion” and Retributive Violence in 1940-1941 Romania,” Culture and Psychology 15, no. 3 (2009).

Keywords

History; Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Contact

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