Symposium regarding Jewish migration from eastern Austria-Hungary and Romania to Luxembourg and vice versa.

In the framework of the Digital Shoah Memorial and the exhibition “Fruit Trees, Railway Tunnels, and Seamless Tubes. Luxembourgish presence in Romania (1890-1950)”, the C²DH and the Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations humaines, Dudelange, organise a symposium regarding Jewish migration from eastern Austria-Hungary and Romania to Luxembourg and vice versa, within the broader context of antisemitism in Russian-occupied Bukovina during the First World War, and in Romania in the first half of the 20th century. Two Romania-based specialists, Andrei Cușco and Bronwyn Cragg, will dive into the history of antisemitic discourse and violence, a driving force behind the emigration of Jews, as well as a Luxembourgish Jew’s first-hand experience of antisemitism in Romania, while Philippe Blasen

. from the C²DH/CDMH will retrace the migration of Jews from Romania to Luxembourg during the interwar period.

Programme

Moderation: Nora Chelaru, member of the «Présence luxembourgeoise en Roumanie (1890-1950)» project, CDMH

Andrei Cușco, researcher at A.D Xenopol Institute of History, Iași

Russian Military Occupation, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Ethnicity in a Multiethnic Borderland: The ‘Jewish Question’ in Bukovina (1914-1917)

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Bronwyn Cragg, PhD student at A.I. Cuza University, Iași, member of the «Présence luxembourgeoise en Roumanie (1890-1950)» project, CDMH

Luxembourgish Experiences of Romanian Antisemitism: Jean-Baptiste Duhr (1903-1976) and Maurice Kahn (1885-after 1947)

Philippe Blasen, postdoc researcher at the C²DH, University of Luxembourg, and associate researcher at CDMH

Romania’s Jews in Luxembourg: Facing an Arbitrary Administration (ca. 1919-1933)