Final returns of Sunday’s national elections made public today reveal that all five Jewish candidates named to represent the Jewish population in the Rumanian parliament on the government bloc ticket were elected by heavy pluralities.
The five are Prof. Maximilian Popper, president of the Federation of Jewish Committees and one of the country’s outstanding physicians; he is not a member of any party and enjoys wide popularity among the Jews in Bucharest; Harrah Leibovice, an attorney, and secretary-general of the Federation, who has played a leading role in Rumania’s war crimes trials; Bercu Feldmain, a Communist who has been active in the trade union movement all his life; Marcel Fisher and Eduard Manolescu.
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