Aspects from the history of the Jews in Central and Eastern Europe

On the other hand, I wanted to underline the importance of these postwar years both for Romanian Jews, and for Hungarian Jews and from other countries from Eastern Europe. They are the years when they dare to place their lives on a new wave, to reconstitute themselves as individuals and community after the choc of Holocaust. In this context the Zionist current (of emigration of the Jews in Israel) is manifesting visibly in Romania and Hungary. The Romanian communist parties did not see it with good eyes perceiving it as a cosmopolitan current that opposed to the isolation characteristic to communist state. The case study focusing on the emigration of Romanian Jews in Israel completes the information about emigration of Jews in a state where authorities were favorable to emigration. In Romania, in communist times, 400 000 of Jews emigrated. In Hungary, the situation was less favorable to emigration and more permissive in the first years after the war.

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In 1999, Anca Oltean graduated the Faculty of European Studies from Cluj-Napoca. In 2002, she graduated the specialization History at the Faculty of History- Geography (Oradea). PhD in History under the coordonation of prof.Mihai Drecin, "History of Romanian and Hungarian Jews (1945-1953) in Romanian and Hungarian Historical Writing" in 2013.