Radio monitors have reported broadcasts beamed to Western Europe in the Yiddish language from Communist Rumania this week-end claiming that Yiddish culture and the Yiddish language are flourishing in Rumania. The broadcast quoted Moses Goldman, whom it designated as chairman of the Jewish community of Buenos Aires, as stating during his alleged recent visit to Bucharest:
“It gives special pleasure to every Jew, every progressive Jew, and especially to those who fight against fascism and anti-Semitism, those who fight in the so-called free world, to establish that a country where anti-Semitism reigned supreme is now a free Socialist republic which (supports) the Jewish tradition, Jewish cultural life, Jewish literature, language and teaching, and the Jewish faith.
“The two Jewish state theaters, the theater studio, the two publishing houses, the teaching of the Yiddish language in other schools, the Federation of Jewish Communities–all these institutions, which enjoy the wide support of the people’s regime, show that cultures which have the right to exist can live and flourish only in a people’s regime. To compare what life used to be here once upon a time and what it is now is like comparing fire and water.”
Bucharest Radio also reported in a newscast that Rumania is officially honoring the centenary of the birth of Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem by festivities and performances of the Bucharest Jewish State Theater. This was cited as “further proof of the free development of the cultural minorities in Rumania.”
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