Comunitatea evreiască şi politicile culturale comuniste în România postbelică: de la dimensiunea internaţionalistă la stalinismul naţional cu accente xenofobe
The Jewish Community and Communist Cultural Policies in Postwar Romania: from the Internationalist Dimension to National Stalinism with Xenophobic Touches

Summary/Abstract: Using archival material issued by Romanian communist Agitprop and Cadre Sections of the RCP/RWP Central Committee, the aim of this paper2 is to shed more light on communist cultural policies regarding national minorities, especially Jewish community in Romania after 1945. One focused mainly on the cadre recruitment process for high cultural bureaucracy, without neglecting the institutional dimension, and the role of the ideological leaders who implemented Romanian Communist Party’s official line concerning both the national question, and cultural politics. On the other hand, the article tried to offer an explanation to the so called 1940s and 1950s over representation of the national minorities within Romanian communist state and party apparatus, preeminently at the high level of the ideological bureaucracy. Last but not least the paper is an attempt to identify the main inflection points which contributed to the transition from the late 1940s Soviet-type internationalist line regarding cultural politics and national question to an extreme national communist trend, with xenophobic tendencies, also called national Stalinist.

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