Jewish Land Property in Northern Transylvania after the Second Vienna Award
Jewish Land Property in Northern Transylvania after the Second Vienna Award

Summary/Abstract: After the First World War, the land tenure policy was employed as a tool for ethnic policy. In the newly-acquired territories, measures were primarily implemented so as to benefit the state-forming nation, often at the expense of the ethnic minorities. During the 1930s, in both Hungary and Romania, an intensified antisemitic discourse led to the promulgation of several acts, by the end of the decade and thereafter, explicitly aimed at first restraining and then eliminating the Jewish presence from the economy. Following the Second Vienna Award, the Hungarian land-tenure policy in Transylvania adopted a Magyarizing character, primarily focusing on restricting the number of Romanian-owned properties. The legislation concerning the Jewish landed property, including Act no. 1939: IV and Act no. 1942: XV, was also extended to Northern Transylvania. This paper analyzes the Hungarian land-tenure policy in Northern Transylvania with regard to Jewish property, specifically focusing on the measures enacted in accordance with the provisions of Act no. 1942: XV, until the period of German occupation in 1944.

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