Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Annual (Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria "Shalom")
Angaben zur Quelle:
28 (1995) 48-66
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The "Jewish problem" in interwar Romania was part of the larger minorities question in the country. Having gained vast multiethnic territories following World War I, the Kingdom of Romania tried to secure dominance for the Romanian ethnic majority. Romania signed a Minority Treaty at the Paris Peace Conference only after a prolonged struggle against it. Having signed it, Romania hindered the naturalization of its Jews. The universities were hotbeds of antisemitism. There were clashes between Jewish and non-Jewish students, and there were pogroms. Antisemitic organizations, such as the Iron Guard, had a large membership and enjoyed the support of the authorities. In 1938 Romania introduced antisemitic legislation and began to revise the citizenship status of its Jews. Romania's antisemitic politics aroused protests from the League of Nations, and also from the Jewish community in neighboring Bulgaria.
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