Attila Gido (Romania), Researcher, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, “Between home and uncertainty. Life in ghettos and collection camps in Northern Transylvania”.

Attila Gidó is a historian and research fellow at the The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He received a Ph.D. degree in History from the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. 

His research fields are: the history of the Transylvanian Jews after the WWI; the reconstruction of the Transylvanian and Romanian Jewish community after the Holocaust; the Zionist movement in Transylvania; the history of Jewry of Cluj; genealogical researches.

During his EHRI fellowship, he is conducting research on the ghettos and collection camps in Northern Transylvania.

Recent publications:

The Transylvanian Jews in Romania, 1918–1940. In: Attila Gábor Hunyadi (ed.): State and Minority in Transylvania, 1918–1989. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, 127–163.

School Market and the Educational Institutions in Transylvania, Partium and Banat between 1919 and 1948. Working Paper, nr. 39, Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale, Cluj-Napoca, 2011. 139 p. (www.ispmn.gov.ro/nodes/term/slug:studii-de-atelier)

The Surviving Jewish Inhabitants of Cluj, Carei and Oradea. The Survey of the World Jewish Congress in 1946. Working Paper, nr. 35, Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale, Cluj-Napoca, 2010. 181 p.Co-author: Zsuzsa Sólyom (www.ispmn.gov.ro/uploads/35%20pt%20web%20final.pdf)

On Transylvanian Jews. An Outline of a Common History. Working Paper, nr. 17, Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale, Cluj-Napoca, 2009. 43 p. (www.ispmn.gov.ro/uploads/gido_21.pdf)