A Marketplace Without Jews: Aryanization and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe [Hardcover]

Introduction: A Marketplace Without Jews: Occupation, Everyday Economics, and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe??Section 1: Architects, Planners, and Implementers of Aryanization??1. The Rise and Fall of an Aryanization Bank: The Romanian Credit Institute, 1941-1951? 2. When Economics was a Racial Endeavour: The Aryanization of Jewish Stores and Businesses in Wartime Sarajevo? 3. The Socioeconomics of the Final Solution in Bulgaria: A Case Study of the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs, 19421944??Section 2: Contestation, Competition, and Social Distance??4. Reluctant Beneficiaries of the Final Solution: Popular Responses to the Plundering of Jewish Property in Occupied Belgrade? 5. Factory Purges and the Expertise Gap: How Aryanization Impeded the Construction of a Model Workers Economy in Wartime Croatia? 6. Crumbs from the Table: Aryanization, Ethnic Competition, and the Final Solution in Wartime Osijek??Section 3: Non-Jewish Aryanizations??7. Selective Resistance to Romanianization: The Coal Industry and National Minorities in the Jiu Valley, 19381943? 8. Stealing from the Undesired: The Porajmos and the Plunder of Roma Property in the Independent State of Croatia? 9. A Forgotten Aryanization: The Ustasha Regime, Middle-Class Serbs, and Economic Terror in Wartime Zagreb??Section 4: The Challenges of Postwar Restitution and Accountability??10. The Inhabitants Live in Our House Arbitrarily: Confiscation and the Lack of Restitution in Hungary, 19441946? 11. The Dispossessed: Bulgarian Jews and the Trial of the Antisemites, 19441945

This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role of mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews?and other undesired population groups from the national marketplace in transforming economic life and social relations.