Radu Ioanid

The Ransom of the Jews (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel
Übersetzer: Marine, Cristina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to leave was baldly practical: Israel paid for them, and Romania wanted influence in the Middle East. For its part, Israel was rescuing a community threatened by economic and cultural extinction and at the same time strengthening itself with a massive infusion of new immigrants. Radu Ioanid traces the secret history of the longest and most expensive ransom arrangement in recent times, a hidden exchange that lasted until the fall of the Communist regime. Including a wealth of recently declassified documents from the archives of the Romanian secret police, this updated edition follows Israel's long and expensive ransom arrangement with Communist Romania. Ioanid uncovers the elaborate mechanisms that made it successful for decades, the shadowy figures responsible, and the secret channels of communication and payment. As suspenseful as a Cold-War thriller, his book tells the full, startling story of an unprecedented slave trade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538140758
• Artikelnr.: 62137638

Autorenporträt

Radu Ioanid was born and grew up in Bucharest, Romania. He was director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and then director of the International Archival Programs Division at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is presently the ambassador of Romania to Israel. Mr. Ioanid's other books include The Sword of the Archangel: Fascist Ideology in Romania, The Iasi Pogrom, June-July 1941: A Photo Documentary from the Holocaust in Romania,and The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain between Romania and Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Elie Wiesel
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction Lost and Found
1 "The Jews Are Our Misfortune"
2 Voting with Their Feet
3 The Zionist Enemy
4 Barter
5 An Uneasy Relationship
6 The Money Trail
7 The Washington Equation
8 "Why Did You Drain My Soul?"
Primary Documents
Appendix
Notes
Index
About the Author