The decree curbing activities of Jews in the liberal professes published in the Official Gazette, provides that the new system goes into effect in February 1940. Until then Jews are allowed to exercise their professions but must register as Jews with the professional syndicates within 20 days on pain of a month’s detention and a 3,000 lire fine.
Starting Feb. 1 all professional registers will be divided into three groups ”Aryans,” Jews and ”privileged Jews.” The ”privileged Jews” will be permitted to exercise their professional with only a few restrictions, while the other Jews will be permitted to serve only Jewish clients, except under special emergency conditions.
Some professions are affected more than others. Thus, no will be allowed to serve as notaries and the ”unprivileged Jews” will be completely barred form the journalistic profession. The law deals almost entirely with professions where special registers of members are kept, which leads to the belief that further amendments regarding other professions are coming.
The same issue of the Gazette publishes two other decrees, the first compelling all Jews who adopted ”Aryan” names to reassume their original Jewish names and also giving” Aryans” with Jewish sounding names the right to change them, the second nullifying any provision in wills specifying that the beneficiary must be of the Jewish religion.
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