2019 Activities

Academic Scientific Research Report 2019

Publications / Publicatii

Ana Barbulescu, “The Djurin ghetto: official order, internal structure and networking strategies.” Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări, vol. XI, nr. 1 / 12 (2019): 95-120. ISSN: 2065-6602. https://www.inshr-ew.ro/revista-inshr-ew-holocaust-studii-si-cercetari-vol-xi-nr-112-2019/#1575375735680-60c0be33-81ad. [journal article, journal indexed in EBSCO, CEEOL, Clarivate Analytics: Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index]

Stefan Cristian Ionescu, “The War Crimes Trials at the People’s Tribunal in Post-war Romania, 1945–46,” in Martin Bergsmo et al (eds.), Historical Origins of International Criminal Law, 2nd edition (Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2019), vol. 2. December 2019. In press. [book chapter]

Dana Mihailescu, “Transcultural Networks in Narratives about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.” European Holocaust Studies, vol. 2. The Holocaust in the Borderlands. Interethnic Relations and the Dynamics of Violence in Occupied Eastern Europe. Edited by Gaëlle Fisher and Caroline Mezger (Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien München). Wallstein Verlag, 2019: 235-241. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783835344198-235/transcultural-networks-in-narratives-about-the-holocaust-in-eastern-europe. [research note]

Dana Mihailescu, Review of Child Survivors of the Holocaust. The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience, by Beth B. Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018. Jewish Culture and History, vol. 21, no. 2, 2020, pp. 190-196. Advance article published online on 30 September 2019. ISSN: 1462-169X (Print), 2167-9428 (Online). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462169X.2019.1669349. [Taylor and Francis journal book review]

Dana Mihailescu, “Representations of Jewish Childhood from 1950s Communist Romania in Memoirs by Women Émigré Authors to the United States.” East European Jewish Affairs 49.1 (2019): 42-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2019.1618168. ISSN 1350-1674 / ISSN 1743-971X online. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. [ISI-AHCI journal article] [UEFISCDI publication award in November 2019 (PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI- 2019-37405)]

Dana Mihailescu, “Transcultural Networks of Holocaust Memories in Elie Wiesel’s The Time of the Uprooted.” The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel’s Literary Works. Eds. Victoria Nesfield and Philip Smith. New York: SUNY Press, August 2019. 219-238. SUNY Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture. ISBN13: 978-1-4384-7545-5. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6767-the-struggle-for-understanding.aspx. [book chapter]

A new course on Transcultural Configurations of the Holocaust in American Culture for American studies M.A. students at the University of Bucharest, first introduced in Spring 2019

Conference presentations / Prezentari conferinte

Stefan Cristian Ionescu, “Restitution of Jewish Property in Post-Holocaust Bucharest, 1944-1950,” Special Lessons and Legacies Conference: The Holocaust and Europe: Research Trends, Pedagogical Approaches, and Political Challenges, Munich, Germany, 4−7 November 2019. https://www.ifz-muenchen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Forschung/Zentrum_für_Holocaust-Studien/Lessons_Legacies_2019_Draft.pdf.

Dana Mihailescu, “The Jewish Fusgeyer Migration Movement from Early Twentieth Century Romania as Transcultural Rhetorical Tool in U.S. Memorial Literary Culture,” Forgotten Histories, Forgotten Memories in U.S. Culture Panel (convener: Cristina Stanciu, Virginia Commonwealth University), Constructions of Identity Conference on History, Memory and Accomplishment, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, 24-26 October 2019 [presentation on 25 October], https://constructions10.wordpress.com/programme/.

Stefan Cristian Ionescu and Dana Mihailescu, “Politics of Holocaust Memory in Communist and Post-Communist Romania: On Jewish Communist Survivor Matei Gall’s (Re)told Life Stories.” Third Annual Memory Studies Association Conference, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, 24-28 June 2019. https://211093-639790-raikfcquaxqncofqfm.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MSA2019_FinalProgram_web.pdf.

Mihaela Precup, ‘“The Jew, a Poisonous Mushroom”: Perpetration, National Guilt, and Family History in Nora Krug’s Heimat: A German Family Album.’ AICED-21. The 21^stAnnual International Conference of the English Department: Trauma, Narrative, Responsibility, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 6-8 June 2019. https://engleza.lls.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/Bucharest-2019-Trauma-Narrative-Repsonsibilty2.pdf.

Dana Mihailescu,“Confronting the Shadow of the Holocaust through Transcultural Memory Networks: Martin Lemelman’s Mendel’s Daughter (2006) and Two Cents Plain (2010).” Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics Conference, Center for Jewish Studies, Graz, Austria, 26-29 May 2019. https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-40353; https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/juedischestudien/tagungsprogramme/Program_HOLOCAUST_COMIC_final.pdf.

Ana Barbulescu, “Lagărul de la Târgu-Jiu: între istorie şi memorie [The Târgu-Jiu Camp: Between History and Memory], Memoryscapes of the Holocaust in Romania seminar / spring school, Şimleu-Silvaniei, organizers: Institutul Naţional pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România Elie Wiesel, 21-25 May 2019. http://www.inshr-ew.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Scoala-de-primavarav2-mai-2019.pdf

Ana Barbulescu, “Transnistria as a Total Institution -- Using Testimonies for a New Methodological Approach.” Future of Holocaust Testimonies V Conference, Akko, Israel, Organizers: The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at Appalachian State University, the Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California.11-13 March 2019 [presentation on 12 March]. https://www.wgalil.ac.il/files/Holocaust_Studies/edu_sho_5/Invitation%20Eng.pdf.

Dana Mihailescu, “Dynamics of Remembrance across Time and Media: On Ruth Glasberg Gold’s Multiple Accounts of Her Holocaust Experiences in Transnistria.” Future of Holocaust Testimonies V Conference, Akko, Israel, Organizers: The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at Appalachian State University, the Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California.11-13 March 2019 [presentation on 12 March]. https://www.wgalil.ac.il/files/Holocaust_Studies/edu_sho_5/Invitation%20Eng.pdf.

Research stays / Stagii cercetare

Roxana Oltean, ECCLES Center for American Studies, British Library, London, UK, 19-31 August 2019

Mihaela Precup, Freie Universitet Library, Berlin, Germany, 1-30 August 2019

Dana Mihailescu, Uppsala University Library, Uppsala, Sweden, 10-17 February 2019; 11-28 August 2019