Scriitorii români de origine evreiască în discursul antisemit al Securității din anii 1970-1980
Romanian Writers of Jewish Origin in the Anti-Semitic Discourse of the Securitate in the Years 1970-1980

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to tackle with the Communist political police surveillance in the case of a few very influential Jewish intellectuals (literary historians and critics) in the more general context of the Securitate actions of monitoring the writers’ milieus during the last two decades of the Romanian Communist regime. It emphasizes the anti-Semitic trends of the 1970s and 1980s which characterized most of the Securitate’s activities, carried on in the process of close surveillance of prominent Romanian Jewish writers – Paul Cornea, Zigu Ornea, Ovid. S. Crohmălniceanu and others. Many of those mentioned above were former pro-Communist cultural journalists or publicists of the 1950s who became, recalcitrant writers after 1965/1970 – from the communist perspective. As a consequence, they were placed under the strict informative surveillance by the Romanian secret police. Although the 1950s Stalinist methods of terror were avoided after 1964, the Securitate tried to viciously exploit and instrumentalize the (allegedly) Zionist past of some of these Jewish authors. Mostly after 1971, in the context of Ceausescu’s Cultural Revolution (the well-known „July 1971 Theses”), the secret police also attempted to use the accusation of cosmopolitanism against them.

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