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IMAGINEA EVREILOR DIN MARAMUREŞUL INTERBELIC ÎN MEMORIA COLECTIVĂ
The Image of Jews from Maramures in Collective Memory

Author(s): Aura Pintea
Subject(s): History
Published by: Argonaut
Keywords: words: oral history, Jews, collective memory, Maramures, tradition, interview, life story

Summary/Abstract: The fragment of history that Jews from Maramures are connected to risks to be forgotten in the middle of the political, social, administrative events interwar. The subjective history related to them has the chance to be known and to reveal a world that disappeared. Oral history can recreate a mere opaque atmosphere for our world but necessary in the process of reconstruction the unknown history due to the communist rules. The author appealed to the interview as a strategy in order to discover significant moments of childhood, youth, family traditions, capital rules in Jewish community. It is also given a social and economical frame, details about school, clothes, food, rituals, everyday life, celebrations, ethnic relationships, matrimonial strategies, occupations etc. As a conclusion, for the spectacular information already received, the research on this field remains open for oral historians as well as for traditional ones.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: XII
  • Page Range: 55-106
  • Page Count: 52
  • Language: Romanian