Testing the limits of the Antonescu regime

"The book focuses on Romanian Jews’ use of mainly legal methods, especially in Bucharest which had the largest Jewish population in the “Old Kingdom” of Romania in the inter-war period, to resist the Antonescu regime’s brutal removal of Jews from the economic, social and cultural life of the country through the process of “Romanianization.” The “stunning feat of resistance,” as the author labels the Jewish opposition to these steps, was based on using the relatively available judicial means and an exploitation of the local rules of the game – corruption and nepotism – in order to minimize the damage done to Jews’ daily life under the shadow and daily danger of deportation and extermination. "