The uphill struggle of Romania's Jewish immigrants

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: July 7, 1996| Author: SRAYA SHAPIRO | Copyright information


Jerusalem Post

07-07-1996

ROMANIA is proud of its Latin-based language, French acculturation, Balkan landscapes, and unfettered mind. But its treatment of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia left a lot to be desired. Just freed from centuries-long Moslem domination, the combined Wallachia and Moldavia was a rough country when it gained independence in 1861.

Murders occur daily, and nightly, reported the writer Peretz Smolenskin when he visited the country...

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