Evreii din România între emancipare şi integrare: soluţii, dileme, incertitudini
Romanian Jews from Emancipation to Integration: Solutions, Dilemmas, Uncertainties

Summary/Abstract: This study tries to provide a description of the legal situation of the Jews in Romania from the social point of view, more specifically, of the various frictions between the legitimate aspirations of the Jews and the limited capability of the Romanian state to fully meet them. The Jewish emancipation – a term coined to designate their access to citizenship – is based on gradually, sometimes very slowly changing trends of ideas that became socio-political realities. Jewish emancipation began in France with the Revolution of 1789. It extended to England and then throughout Europe: Norway in 1851, Sweden – 1865, Denmark – 1848, Netherlands – 1796, etc. In Romania, the large number of Jews, their important role in the development of the economy, their cohabitation in the context of the Romanian society and their struggle for emancipation, for more than half a century, shaped the dimensions of a “Jewish question” with unique social and political implications.

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