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Eugenism transnațional în literatura ghetoului evreiesc din România: perspective minoritare asupra discriminării rasiale
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Transnational Eugenics in the Literature of the Jewish Ghetto in Romania:
Minority Perspectives on Racial Discrimination
Abstract: This article argues that interwar Romanian ghetto novels written by Jewish authors foreground the ideological and transnational dimensions of eugenics, tracing its local operationalization through strategies of symbolic and civic elimination. Historically shaped by multiple empires and nation-states, Romania emerges as a productive site for investigating the hybrid manifestations of eugenics shaped by distinct political and imperial frameworks. The textual analysis of ghetto novels – Copilăria unui netrebnic (1936) by Ion Călugăru, Ghetto veac XX (1934) by Ury Benador, and Calea Văcărești (1933) by Isac Peltz – is justified by their sustained depiction of Jewish ghetto life as a space of social marginalization and reveals a eugenics-based tactic of discrimination against the Jewish minority, conceptualized here as “non-violent extermination”: an implicit strategy aimed at reducing the perceived hereditary Jewish “danger”. Reconsidering eugenics from the standpoint of a minority voice foregrounds the perspective of those subjected to this ideology and reframes a field of analysis long dominated by hegemonic perspectives.
Keywords: Jewish Literature, eugenics, transnationalism, literature of the ghetto, Interwar Romania.
Citation suggestion: Gorgan, Irina. “Eugenism transnațional în literatura ghetoului evreiesc din România: perspective minoritare asupra discriminării rasiale”. Transilvania, no. 3 (2026): 12-18.
https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2026.3.02.
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