Flourishing World, Vanishing World: Aspects Related to the SocioPolitical Condition of Jews in Province of Bukowina under Austrian and Romanian Adm
Flourishing World, Vanishing World: Aspects Related to the SocioPolitical Condition of Jews in Province of Bukowina under Austrian and Romanian Adm

Summary/Abstract: Dating back to the Middle Ages, the history of Bukowina’s Jews has become inseparable from the history of the land, its people and their cultures. This essay briefly and synthetically depicts the differences, if not discrepancies, between two administrative regimes, two very different political cultures, as reflected on the (changing) face of the Jewish minority. If under Austrian governance the Jewish communities were subjected to inclusive, wise and mostly considerate policies, under the Romanian one they faced an ethnocentric regime, blind to the very essence of the region: its national diversity, and witnessed the gradual deterioration of their edifice of socio-economic achievements as well as the destabilization of their politicojudicial condition in the region, and in the country as a whole.

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