Autoreflecții ale intelighenției evreiești în perioada post-Holocaust
Self-Reflections of Jewish Intelligentsia in the Post-Holocaust Period

Summary/Abstract: After the tragedy suffered during the Holocaust, the identity conscience of those Jews who survived the hell of the Nazi and Fascist camps underwent a profound metamorphosis, in which Auschwitz symbolically became the point of origin of identity assuming strategies. Faced with the hardest questions, including the issue of the meaning of life after the Holocaust, the possible identity and community strategies, and that of the continuing anti-Semitic manifestations, the intelligentsia, the intellectual elite of the surviving European Jewry repeatedly tried to analyze what had happened and to draw the necessary conclusions. Self-reflection had, for some of them, serious consequences, since the conclusion they reached was that life could not be continued after Auschwitz. For others, however, it was the starting point for building the new Communist society, the “possible world”, which would eventually disappoint them in their vast majority. My study reviews the main stages of this process of self-reflection and focuses on the most important conclusions.

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