10.54885/AUB-SP-HYHL6010

NATIONALISM AND ANTISEMITISM IN THE GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH (1918-1944): SOME CONSIDERATIONS OVER THE PARADOXICAL STATUS OF THE GREEK CATHOLICS

Ionuț BILIUȚĂ [a] [b] (ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8664-1287)

Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice [Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science series]

Vol. XXVI (2024), Online first

https://doi.org/10.54885/AUB-SP-HYHL6010

[a] ionut.biliuta@academia-cj.ro

[b] "Gheorghe Sincai" Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Romanian Academy, Romania

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The text presents the adventures of the Greek Catholic Church in interwar and WWII Romania through two major lenses: the Concordat affair in the late 1920s and the sinuous relationship with the Romanian Jews. From a transnational perspective, the implications of Greek Catholic activism and its intersections with political power determined paradoxes such as fascists helping Jews to escape deportation during the Holocaust or Greek Catholics passed over by the papal nuncios in negotiations for their legal status and rights in the new Romanian national state.

Keywords: Greek Catholic Church, fascism, nationalism, anti-Semitism, rescue of Jews, Holocaust, Concordat, transnational perspectives

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Ionuț BILIUȚĂ is a researcher at the "Gheorghe Șincai" Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Romanian Academy. His main academic interests are the history of the Orthodox Church in the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the Romanian and Greek Orthodox Churches, antisemitism and racism in modern Orthodox theology, fascism and Orthodox clergymen, transferability of various languages of knowledge between Western and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, ecumenism in the nineteenth century and the interwar years, atheism and unbelief in Eastern Europe, underground religious groups in Eastern Europe during the twentieth century.

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BILIUȚĂ, Ionuț. 2024. Nationalism and Antisemitism in the Greek Catholic Church (1918-1944): Some Considerations over the Paradoxical Status of the Greek Catholics. Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice [Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political Science series] XXVI: Online first. https://doi.org/10.54885/AUB-SP-HYHL6010

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