"From Romania, For Cash" - first episode of the podcast series "Antisemitism, Holocaust Memory and National Narratives in the Former Eastern Bloc"

Dr Radu Ioanid, Romanian Ambassador to Israel and historian of Romanian Jewry, discusses his book The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain between Romania and Israel detailing how, over decades, hundreds of thousands of Romanian Jews were exchanged for money, livestock and goods.

06 October 2021

The Stephen Roth Institute is overjoyed to announce the first podcast in a series our Institute has organized with Tel Aviv Review on TLV 1. The series is a part of the project "Antisemitism, Holocaust Memory and National Narratives in the Former Eastern Bloc", dealing with forms and functions of antisemitism and the politicization of memory. The first episode is an interview with Dr Radu Ioanid, Romanian Ambassador to Israel and historian of Romanian Jewry, discussing his book "The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain between Romania and Israel", and Holocaust memory in contemporary Romania.
We invite you to listen to the podcast here.

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