Bibliography (non-English) on History of Kishinev, Moldova and Romania

Periodicals and Series - non-English

• Nash galos “Our Voice” : gazeta obshchestva evreiskoi kul’tury Moldavii (Kishinev: Assotsiatsiia evreiskikh organizatsii i obshchin RM), 1990-, in Yiddish and Russian. [Harvard's library has some issues.]
• Studia judaica / "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, The History and Philosophy Faculty, "Moshe Carmilly" Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History; Cluj-Napoca: "Babes-Bolyai" University, 1991- , ISSN: 1221-5163. USHMM Library Stacks DS135.R7 S77
• Studia et acta historiae Iudaeorum Romaniae [1996] (=Historical Studies on the Jews of Romania) (Bucuresti: Editura Hasefer, 1996-), ISSN: 1224-8789 USHMM DS 135 .R7 S76

Kishinev: History - non-English

• Feiwel, Berthold. Die Judenmassacres in Kischinew / von Told, mit einem Weiheblatt von E.M. Lilien. Berlin: Juedischer Verlag, [1903], 102 p., ill., plates, 24 cm. USHMM - Rare Book Collection DS135.R9 F4 1903
• Du pogrom de Kichinev a l’affaire Beilis: les dessous des machinations antise?mites en Russie tsariste. Paris: Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, [196-?], 91 p., ill., 24 cm. USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 D87 1960
• Doron, David (see Spektor, David).
• Kopanskii, IA. M.; A. A. Berzoi; K. L. Zhignia Kishinevskii pogrom 1903 goda: sbornik dokumentov i materialov. Kishineu: Izdatel’stvo Ruxanda, 2000, Russian, 523 p., [16] p. of plates, ill., 27 cm., ISBN: 9975720927 USHMM - DS135.M64 K57 2000
• Kishinevskii pogrom 1903 goda: sbornik statei / Otv. red. I.E. Levit. Kishinev: "Liga", 1993, 136 p., maps, photos, 20 cm. ISBN: 5868924444 USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 K47 1993
• Kishinevskii pogrom 1903 goda--vzgliad cherez stoletie: materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii / [sostavitel' IA.M. Kopanskii]. Chisinau: Pontos, 2004, 172 p., col. ill., 22 cm. ISBN: 9975927793 USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 M49 2003
• Shpital’nik, Sarra, ed. Evre?ski? Kishinev: putevoditel' (=Jewish Kishinev Guide). (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.) (Kishinev: Evre?skaia Biblioteka im. I. Mangera / Y. Manger Jewish Library), 15 p.
• Shurer, H?ayim. ha-Pogrom be-Kishinov: bi-mel'ot 60 shanah Pesah? 663-Pesah? 723, 1903-1963, toldot, 'eduyot, mismakhim, reshamim / [ha-Ma'arkhet: H. Shurer (ha-korekh) Y. Kurin, D. Vinitski]. Tel-Aviv: [ha-Igud ha-'olami shel Yehude be-Sarabyah], 1963, 294 p., ill., facsims., ports., 26 cm. USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 P64 1963
• Yeshivat Kishinov (=The yeshiva of Kishinev), in Hebrew. Yeshiva of Kishinev Students. (Tel Aviv, Israel: Igud talmide Yeshivat Kishinov/Students of Kishinev, 1962), First Edition, 5.75 X 8.5, Hardcover. DJ. 191 Pages. b/w photos.
  
  Designed like a Yizkor, memorial book in remembrance of the Yeshiva at Kishinev. black and white photo section.
• Spek?tor, David (=David Doron). Geto Kishinov, ha-pogrom ha-sofi (Added title: Ghetto Kishinev - the final pogrom) (M.A. thesis ha-Universitah ha-'Ivrit, Yerushalayim, 1973; Yalkut Moreshet 19 (1975): 67-108. (published: Jerusalem: Kiryat sefer ha-hasut ha-Igud ha-'olami shel Yehude Besarabyah, 737, 1977), in Hebrew, 170 pages. black and white photos and maps of the ghetto. USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 D67 1977 (there is Russian translation too: Kishinevskoe getto -- poslednii pogrom, Jerusalem: Biblioteka-Aliia, 1991. ISBN 9653202154

Bessarabia/Moldova: History - non-English

• Bekker, Mikhail, avtor-sostavitel'. Pamiat' bessmertna. Kishinev: TSentr. tip., 2000. 319 p., ill. (some col.), 23 cm. ISBN: 9975780547 USHMM - D810.J4 P26 2000
• Bekker, Mikhail. Zazhgi svechu v den pobedy. Kishinev: IPF TSentral'naia tip., 2002. 463 p., ill., 25 cm. ISBN: 9975782051 USHMM - D810.J4 B425 2002
• Bertini, K. A. (K. Aharon), A. B. Yoffe and Getzel Kressel. 'Al admat Besarabyah: divre mehkar, zikhronot, reshimot, te'udot ve-divre sifrut li-kevi'at ha-demut shel Yahadutah. Tel-Aviv: Ihud ha-irgunim shel yotse Besarabyah, 719 [1958 or 1959]-723 [1962 or 1963], 3 v.: ill., ports., 24 cm. USHMM - Rare Memorial Books, Shelved by region name: Bessarabia Region. Ask at Reference Desk for assistance.
• Goberman, David N. Zabytye kamni: evreiskie nadgrob'ia v Moldove / Forgotten stones: Jewish tombstones in Moldova (Sankt-Peterburg: Iskusstvo-SPB, 2000), 35 p., 118 p. of plates, ISBN 5-210-01536-X
  
  Photographs of and text about Jewish tombstones cared in Moldova by artists of the 18th to early 20th century. Most of the art presented in this album no longer exist.
• Hausleitner, Mariana. Deutsche und Juden in Bessarabien, 1814-1941: zur Minderheitenpolitik Russlands und Grossrumaniens. Muenchen: IKGS Verlag, 2005, 255 p., 1 map, 1 table, 24 cm., ISBN: 398088838X (pbk.). USHMM - Library Stacks DR214.G4 H38 2005
• Kogan, Anatolii. Krasnaia pena: bessarabskii genotsid. Kishinev: Tip. A.S.M., 2001. 94 p., 21 cm., ISBN: 9975620612 USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 K64 2001
• Lerner, Falik. A Besaraber shtetl: lebnsshteyger, bilder, geshtaltn, zikhroynes. Buenos-Ayres: F. Lerner, 1958. 207 p., 20 cm. DS135.M64 L47 1958
• Nazarija (Nazaria), Sergey/Sergiu. Holocost v Moldove (=The Holocaust in Moldova) (Chisinau: Institutului de Stat de Relatii Internationale din Moldova / Institute of International Relations, 2005?)
• Perelmuter-Konvizor, Ester. Erika: dos lebn un shafn / fun Ester Perelmuter-Konvizor. [H.m.: h. mo. l.], 2000, 109 p., ill., ports., facsims., 24 cm. USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 P47 2000
• Pilat, Izrail' Natovich. Iz istorii evreistva moldovy Kishinev: Ob-vo evreiskoi kultury, 1990. 100 p., ill., ports., 20 cm. - USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M65 P45 1990
• Schildkraut, Israel. 'Al horvot Besarabiyah: zikhronot / m'et Yisrael Schildkraut, me-Idish A. Mitus. Tel Aviv: [s.n.], 714 [1954], 251 p., ill., 22 cm. USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 S355 1954
• Shpital’nik, Sara. Evrei Moldovy: deiatel’nost’ evreev v kul’ture, nauke, ekonomike Moldovy v XX veka: [biobibliografiia] (=Jewish Moldova). (Kishinev: Evreiskaia biblioteka, 2000), 311 p., 30 cm., Summaries in English. At head of title: Biblioteca municipala "Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu," Evreiskaia biblioteka im. I. Mangera, Dzhoint. (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.)Includes bibliography (p. 310) Ohio State - DS135 .M64 S46 2000, USHMM - Library Oversize DS135 .M64 S46 2000
• Vinitzky, David. Bisarabyah ha-Yehudit be-ma'arakhoteha: ben shete milhamot ha-'olam, 1914-1940. Jerusalem: ha-Sifriyah ha-Tsyonit, 1973, 2 v. (719 p.): ill., 24 cm. USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 V56 1973

Transylvania: History - non-English

• Carmilly-Weinberger, Moshe. Istoria Evreilor din Transilvania = History of the Jews in Transylvania, (1623–1944). Bucharest: Enciclopedica, 1994. ISBN: 9734500902. USHAMM - Library Stacks DS135.R72 T736 1994

Romania: History - non-English

• Die Judenfrage in Rumaenien, by Janku Meir Cargher. (Berlin: C. A. Schwetschke, 1918), LBI DS 135 R7 C35
  Provides a historical narrative with specific details about various pieces of legislation.
• Fingurt, I. (I. S.). Obrechennye. Kishinev: "Menora", 1994, 140 p., 20 cm. USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M629 F56 1994
• Gyémánt, Ladislau. Evreii din Transilvania in epoca emanciparii: 1790-1867 = The Jews of Transylvania in the age of emancipation: 1790-1867. Bucharest, Editura Enciclopedic?, 2000, 495 p., 21 cm. ISBN: 9734503065 USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.R72 T745 2000
• Gol'tser, Petr. Deti voiny [Skokie, Ill.]: P. Gol'tser, [1998], 87 p., ill., 30 cm. USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.M64 G65 1998
• Zionist Organisation. Die Judenpogrome in Russland / herausgegeben im Auftrage des Zionistischen Hilfsfonds in London von der zur Erforschung der Pogrome eingesetzten Kommission. Koeln und Leipzig: Juedischer Verlag, G.m.b.H., 1910, 2 v., 26 cm. USHMM - Rare Book Collection DS135.R9 Z5 1910
• Kopanskii, IA. M., ed. Kishinevskii pogrom 1903 goda: vzgliad cherez stoletie: Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii / / = The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903. (Chisinau, Moldova: Pontos, 2004), in Russian, 172 p., 4 p. of plates: ports., 27 cm. ISBN: 9975927793. USHMM Library Stacks DS135.M64 M49 2003
• Digest pe o tema eterna: Nu vom uita! = Daidzhest na vechnuiu temu: Ne zabudem!. 1/2000 / consiliul redactional, I. Kotler ... [et al.]. Publisher: Chisinau: Publicatie a Uniunii Organizatiilor Evreiesti din Municipiul Chisinau, 2000. 52, 52 p., 20 cm. USHMM - Library Stacks DS135.R7 D55 2000
• Ruppin, Arthur. Die Juden in Rumaenien. Berlin: Verlag von Louis Lamm, 1908. Pamphlet with statistics, LBI DS 135 R7 R86
• Schuster, Hans. Die Judenfrage in Rumaenien. Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1939, LBI DS 135 R7 S37
• Tkach, Efim (ed.). Antiiudaizm, ili peshchernyi mir: stat'i, dokumenty, vospominaiia, stikhi / sostavitel', Efim Tkach. (=Peshchernyi mir). Kishinev: Antifashistskii demokraticheskii alians RM, Obshchestvo evreiskoi kul'tury RM, Khelinkskaia grazhdanskaia assambleia v Moldove, 1998, 195 p., 21 cm., USHMM - Library Stacks DS146.R6 A585 1998
• Verax [Rosetti, Radu D.] La Roumanie et les Juifs. Bucharest: I. V. Socecu, 1903 LBI DS 125 R7 V4
• Dokumental'nye materialy po istorii evreev v arkhivakh SNG i stran Baltii: predvaritel'ny? spisok arkhivnykh fondov (=Documentary Sources on Jewish History in the Archives of the CIS and the Baltic States: Preliminary list of archival holdings) / Peterburgski? evre?ski? universitet, Institut issledovani? evre?sko? diaspory / Petersburg Jewish University; Institute of Jewish Diaspora; Russian State University for the Humanities; Historical-Archival Institute, Center of Archival Research; Compiled by D. A. Eliashevich (Sankt-Peterburg: Akropol/, 1994), 136 p. SBN 5865850237. In Russian, summary in English. USHMM Library Stacks DS135.R9 E38 1994
• Literatura o evreiakh na russkom iazyke, 1890-1947: knigi, broshiury, ottiski state?, organy periodichesko? pechati: bibliograficheski? ukazatel (=Literature on Jews in Russian, 1890 - 1947: Books, brochures, reprint of articles, periodicals. Bibliographical Index). Petersburg Jewish University, Russian National Library; Compiled by V. E. Kelner, D. Elyashevich; Edited by M. Benina. (Sankt-Peterburg: Akademicheski? proekt / Humanitarian agency "Academic project," 1995), 680 p. ISBN 5733100095. In Russian. USHMM Library Stacks Z6366 .K45 1995
• Pinkas ha-kehilot. Romanyah: entsiklopedyah shel ha-yishuvim ha-Yehudiyim le-min hivasdam ve-`ad le-ahar Sho'at Milhemet ha-`olam ha-sheniyah. Editors: Dr. Jean Ancel, Dr. Theodore Lavi, Aviva Broshi, Zvi Shal. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem)
  
  An historical geographical encyclopedia of Romania. Contains histories of even small towns in Romania that had Jewish populations. Includes biographies and list many personal names.
  
  Vol. I Moldavia (1969), edited by Theodore LAVIE. Contents 'History of the Jews of the Regat,' 'Regat – Historic Romania,' 'Southern Transylvania,' 'Transnistria,' 'German Camps Across the Bug River.' Vol I. Online version (incomplete)
  Vol. II (1980), edited by Theodore LAVIE. Contents: 'The Jews of Northern Transylvania,' 'History of the Jews of Bessarabia,' 'History of the Jews of Bukovina.' Vol II. Online version (incomplete)
• Transliteration: [Hebrew title?] = Archive in Memory of the Jews of Bessarabia (Tel Aviv, 1961), 144 p., in Hebrew
  "Includes section on the history of Bessarabia and Jewish Bessarabia, spiritual-cultural life in Bessarabia, economic life, social life, political-national life, national-Zionist life, public life in the Jewish communities, and Jewish and general folklore of the region. [It] contains bibiographies of writers, poets, educators, and other prominent people. Some items are: Map of Kishinev, 1880, List of those killed in the Odessa pogrom, 1906, Photographs of people, Pinkassim from Dombrovky, Kishinev, and Badsa." (from Clapsaddle (Avotaynu 1990).

Archival Resources - non-English

• Odessa Oblast Archives records [microform]. User copies 24 microfilm reels, 16 mm. USHMM - Archives RG-31.004M; Acc. 1995.A.0500
  
  Summary: Contains files from the central administration of Transnistria (Ukraine) dealing with the local Jews and with the Jews deported from Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria, and their fate in the ghettos between the Dniestr and the Bug.
• Romania. Consiliul de Ministri. Presedintia Consiliului de Ministrii records - Cabinet Militar [microform] = Presidency of Council of Ministers-Military Cabinet, 1940-1944. User copies 34 microfilm reels, 35 mm. USHMM - Archives Rg-25.013M; Acc. 2001.209
  
  Summary: Records of the military cabinet of Ion Antonescu. Documents relating to the persecution and deportation of the Jews, confiscation of their properties, military actions against partisans, and secret police records relating to the Romanian retreat from Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina in 1940.
• Romanian Ministry of National Defense, Archive of the General Staff concerning the Holocaust in Romania, records [microform], 1939-1945. User copies 396 microfilm reels. USHMM - Archives RG-25.003M; Acc. 1992.A.0085
  
  Summary: Contains memoranda, lists, charts, maps, correspondence, orders, reports, and other documents relating to Jews in forced labor in Romania; deportations of Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina to Transnistria (Ukraine); establishment of concentration camps in Transnistria; confiscation of Jewish property; executions of Jews; surveillance of Jews in Transnistria; and Hungarian atrocities in Transylvania.
• Romania. Ministerul de Interne. Selected records from the collection "Ministry of the Interior (Miscellaneous)" [microform], 1910-1957. User copies 130 microfilm reels, 35 mm. USHMM Archives RG-25.023M
  
  Summary: Contains police reports from various areas of Romania, as well as letters and complaints to local police, newspaper clippings, tables, telegrams, situation reports and correspondence. Documents relate to the activities and leaders of many political parties or movementsm including: Iron Guard; Agrarian Union Party; National Christian Party; Peasant Party; Everything for the Fatherland Party; and The National Front of Rebirth. Some police reports relate to activities of student organizations and movements, including Hitler Jugend, cultural organizations, and Association of Jewish Women. Other topics include: religious sects; relations with USSR; Bulgarian irredentists; relations between the Army and the population; Jewish leader Filderman; surveillance of foreigners from Germany and Hungary who applied for citizenship; diplomatic relations with other countries; abuses against Jews; references to the "Jewish problem;" occupation of Bessarabia by USSR and of Transylvania by Hungary; and postwar reports on Legionnaires who emigrated.
• Romania. Ministerul Muncii. Selected records from the Romanian Ministry of Work, Health and Social Protection - Central Office of Romanianization (Aryanization) [microform], 1939-1944. User copies 40 microfilm reels, 35 mm. USHMM - Archives RG-25.024M
  
  Summary: Contains material of the Central Office of Romanianization (the OCR) under the Ministry of Work, Health and Social Protection, concerning the Romanianization of personnel of various private enterprises, the sacking of Jews, the hiring of ethnic Romanians in their stead, and "doubling; i.e, the practice of having the sacked worker continue on for a time to teach the new worker his job. Included also are a proposal to accelerate "Romanianization"; a draft law to that effect; explanatory memoranda about it; the structure of the personnel of the OCR; its budgetary expenses; draft law on Romanianization of personnel in North Bucovina and Bessarabia; the "Jewish question" in general and denunciation of Jews by ethnic Romanians; activity reports of the OCR to the Ministry of Labor; requests by refugees and other ethnic Romanians to be "placed" in various jobs; and denunciations of Jews by ethnic Romanians. Also contains correspondence of OCR with various governmental bodies, individual companies, and private persons concerning Romanianization; collections of news clippings concerning Romanianization; inspection of individual companies concerning Romanianization; and correspondence of OCR with individual companies and private persons.
• Selected records related to Bessarabia and Bukovina from the Romanian National Archives [microform], 1924-1961. User copies 65 microfilm reels, 35 mm. USHMM - Archives RG-25.019M, 2004.404
  
  Summary: Contains records related to the surveillance of Jews and expropriation of their property in the regions of Bessarabia and Bukovina, Romania. Also contains documents related to the surveillance and harassment of other minority groups and members of Protestant denominations.
• "Materials of the General and Special Surveys of the Bessarabian Province" (Russian title: ?) (RGADA, Moscow, Fond 1229)
  
  "As in the case of the Ekaterinoslav Jewish villages, [this collection contains] information about the Bessarabian colonists is found in “written field survey proceedings.” The information in this fond is somewhat broader than for the Ekaterinoslav colonies. Here we find the power of attorney (called “letter of trust”) of the Jewish petty bourgeoisie of Podolsky Province, who selected trustees to represent their interests in the selection and purchase of individual land for settlement. There are also deeds of purchase, documents by certain powerful Jewish groups wishing to create a colony. Thanks to these documents, we not only possess information about the number and personal makeup of the colonies (for example, the first settlers), but also about the towns or villages from which they came. Surname lists from the powers of attorney, deeds of purchase, and lay agreements allow us to determine the number of Jews in the Bessarabian colonies of Brichova, Dumbraveni, Lublin, Valya-lui-Vlad, and Vertuzhani." (From Feldman "Archival sources for the genealogy..." in Avotaynu, vol. 15, Summer 1999)

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