The Jewish Question "resolved": The anti-Semitic discourse in Romania after the Congress of Berlin (1878-1879)
The Jewish Question "resolved": The anti-Semitic discourse in Romania after the Congress of Berlin (1878-1879)

Summary/Abstract: In the light of the recent theoretical developments on 19th -century anti-Semitism, this article aims to offer a synthesis and a critical reconsideration of the corpus of Romanian anti-Semitic discourses of the late 1870s, mainly focusing on the public and political debate on the legal situation of Romanian Jews following the Congress of Berlin. Building on a wide range of Romanian sources pertaining to the Jewish question - including newspaper articles, pamphlets, parliamentary and electoral speeches - the study offers a thorough contextualization of the main discursive strategies employed in the public debates and attempts to outline the roles played by anti-Semitic discourses in shaping the local political balance of power, the sense of national cohesion as well as the specific cultural representations of Western Europe and the modern values it represented.

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