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)
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)
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
16.00 - 19.00
Black Box, Maison des Sciences humaines, Belval Campus
Free entrance
Sponsors: Claude and Claudine Blasen-Mergen