CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Silvestru, Octavian |
|---|---|
| Title | Opportunistic Politicking and 'Necessary Nationalism' in Romania: Anti-Semitism in the Context of the 1879 Revision of the Constitution |
| Summary | The purpose of the present thesis is to offer a synthesis and also a critical reconsideration of the corpus of Romanian anti-Semitic discourses in the 1860s and 1870s, that is during the period the Romanian state emerged. Since an exhaustive, contextual analysis of anti-Semitic discourses and policies occurring in that period would exceed the limits of this thesis, the focus will be mainly set on a specific historical moment which occasioned unmatched discursive anti-Semitism, namely the public debate on the legal situation of Romanian Jews following the 1878 Congress of Berlin. Furthermore, this selection is motivated by the fact that, as it will be argued in the following pages, the anti-Semitic discourses proffered in that specific moment recovered previous similar stances, thus standing out as an exemplification of a typical ideology as regards the nationality and the modernity. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin; Karady, Viktor; |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/silvestru_octavian.pdf |
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