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This book deals with six trials, conducted by the Romanian state
against Jewish key officials employed in state-owned import-export
companies between 1950 and 1960. It begins with a presentation of
the political realities of Romania following the Communist Party's
rise to power, in particular those regarding its relationship with
Romania's Jews and Gheorghiu-Dej's policy of National Communism.
Rozenberg describes the criminal procedure used in the staged
economic trials follows and then examines this procedure based on
the legal system of the period, as exemplified by the six analyzed
trials. The Romanoexport Jewish officials' trial is analyzed in
depth, as the case study of the whole book. This book concludes by
bringing to light two phenomena that dissipate some mystique
surrounding the events: first, the state's practice of using its
legal system as a means of oppressing the population; and second,
the stereotypical image of "The Jew" which the regime in Romania
developed. Despite its supposed anti-religiosity, it held on to
centuries-old prejudices against Jews as pariahs, with supposed
allegiance to foreign elements preferred over their surrounding
society, even to the point of betraying and exploiting their own
country.
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