Paper short abstract:

My paper aims to offer an understanding of social fear,approaching the Jewish community of a Transylvanian city, Cluj, where I have been conducting fieldwork in the last years.

Paper long abstract:

My paper aims to offer an understanding of social fear, approaching the Jewish community of a Transylvanian city, Cluj, where I have been conducting fieldwork in the last years.

Being exposed to certain historical, social, cultural challenges, this community constructed different strategies to face and approach them. All these ended up in a process of internalizing and experiencing a sort of deep cultural/social/ethnic fear. Meanwhile, fear- in various forms of expression, individual or collective-is a key term, involved in producing responses to the various triggers that aggregated tragic,limit-experiences. I am going to explore how fear is assumed and approached in the very current context by the members of this community, which are the main responses to it, how the internal/communitarian fear is perceived by other groups of Cluj,which are their main reaction to it. As methods, life histories and semi structured interviews are of election.