The Ransom of the Jews
The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel
After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to leave was baldly practical: Israel paid for them, and Romania wanted influence in the Middle East. For its part, Israel was rescuing a community threatened by economic and cultural extinction and at the same time strengthening itself with a massive infusion of new immigrants.Radu Ioanid traces the secret history of the longest and most expensive ransom arrangement in recent times, a hidden exchang…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5381-4075-8
- EAN: 9781538140758
- Produktnummer: 36791750
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: Second Edition
Über den Autor
Radu Ioanid was born and grew up in Bucharest. He studied at the University of Bucharest; at the University of Cluj, where he received a PhD; and at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris, where he received a doctorate in history. He was vice president of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania headed by Elie Wiesel from 2003 to 2004. He has been a Starkoff Fellow at the American Jewish Archives and director of the International Archival Program at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is now Romania's ambassador to Israel. His books include The Holocaust in Romania and Le Pogrom de Jassy.
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