C oven Arch. Amalia GYEMANT Translation o f the R om anian text: Simona FARCASAN E ditorial Board: Prof. Dr. Moshe CARMILLY Prof. Dr. Pompiliu TEODOR Prof. Dr. Ladislau GYEMANT Assist. Maria RADOSAV C opyright: Sincron Publishing House, 1998 Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish Flistory, Cluj-Napoca, Str. Universitatii 7-9, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Tel/Fax: 0040-64 - 197811 ISBN 973-9234 - 24-0 ISSN 1221-5163 The preparation and publication of the volume was made possible with the help of a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Publishing Counsellor. Prof. dr. ing. Petru BRANZAS C om puterized processing-. Cristina JVloldovan
SUiMMARY I. Doctor Honoris Causa Award presented to Prof. Moshe Carmilly- Weinberger - Oct. 29, 1997, C lu j-n ap oca...9 Prof. ANDREI MARGA, Rector of the Babes-Bolyai University, O pening A d d r ess... 9 Prof. POMPILIU TEODOR, Head of the History Department, L audatio...13 Prof. MOSHE CARMILLY -WEINBERGER Inaugural Address: Art as Source fo r Jewish H istoriogra p h y... 24 Prof. ANDREI MARGA Closing R em a rk s... 56 II. Methodological Approaches and Sources of Jewish Historiography. International Conference, Cluj-Napoca, October 28-30, 1997... 57 Prof. MOSHE IDEL (Jerusalem), That wondrous, occult p o w er : som e reflections on m odern perceptions o f Jewish h i s t o r y... 57 Prof. YEHUDA DON (Bar-Ilan University), R eports to the Nazi authorities as a quantitative source in h i s t o r y... 71 Dr. LEON VOLOVICI, On several concepts and stereotypes in the historiography dedicated to the J e w s... 89 Dr. RAPHAEL VAGO (Tel-Aviv), The m issing m inority: the Jew s in the Western historiography o f T ransylvania... 99 LYA BENJAMIN (Bucharest), The historiographic criterion o f analyzing the archive sources concerning the Jew s in R om ania betw een 1940-1944... 110 Dr. SILVIU SANIE (Iasi), Inscriptions and images on tom bstones as historiographic s o u r c e s...117 Prof. LADISLAU GYEMANT (Cluj-Napoca), G enealogy and History. Sources o f Jewish genealogical research in Romania (18th-20th cen tu ries)...123 Dr. AVRAM ROSEN (Tel-Aviv), Outlook and m ethodology in the study o f the econ om ic aspects o f the history o f the Jews in R o m a n ia... 132 ZVI HARTMAN (Tel-Aviv), Sources in Israel on inter-war Transylvanian Jewish history: the case o f the Zionist m ovem en t... 151 Dr. HARRY KULLER (Bucharest), A com puterized system o f processing the inform ation on the history o f the Jew s in R om ania... 158
Dr. VICTOR NEUMANN (Timisoara), The Jew s in post-w ar historiography. Standpoints concern ing m ethodological con tro versies...177 Dr. HARASZTI GYORGY (Budapest), M ethodological approaches and sources in the n ew H ungarian-jewish h isto rio gra p h y...181 ANTON DORNER (CluyN apoca), Jew ish books in the H alid li b r a r y...197 III. History and A rch aeo lo g y...199 Prof. NICOLAE GUDEA (Cluj-Napoca),/em in R om an Dacia. II. A Jewish coin in the R om an fo r t fro m Ilisua (Dacia Porolissensis).. 199 IV. Book R e v ie w s... 203 V. The activity of the Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History in the academic year 1997/1998... 218
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS: P ro f. ANDREI M ARGA P ro f. POMPILIU TEODOR P ro f. MOSHE CARMILLY- WEINBERGER P ro f. MOSHE IDEL P ro f. YEHUDA DON D r. LEON VOLOVICI D r. RAPHAEL va G O LYA BENJAMIN Dr. SILVIU SANIE Prof. LADISLAU GYEMANT Dr. AVRAM ROSEN ZVI HARTMAN Dr. HARRY KULLER Dr. VICTOR NEUMANN Dr. HARASZTI GYORGY ANTON DORNER P ro f. NICOLAE GUDEA P ro f. MIRCEA MOLDOVAN D r. PAUL SCHVEIGER Rector of the Babej-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Head of the History Department, Babej-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Emeritus Professor, Yeshiva University, New York The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bar-Ilan University, Israel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Researcher. The Center for the Study of the History of the Jews in Romania, Bucharest Institute of Archaeology, Iasi Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Researcher. The Center for the Study of the History of the Jews in Romania, Bucharest University of Timijoaxa Researcher. Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest Researcher. Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Technical University, Cluj-Napoca