(J. T. A. Mall Service)
In connection with the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Piatra Niamz, Chief Rabbi Dr. Niemirover sent an address to the Patriarch Miron, head of the Roumanian Church and member of the Regency Council.
“The profanation of the Jewish cemetery in Piatra Niamz,” he wrote, “has caused us great sorrow. Is it an epilogue to the blasphemous acts of Oradeamare or is it a prologue to fresh devastations? I mourn this catastrophe as a Rabbi, but it is also a great grief to me as a Roumanian citizen, for it is a fresh blot on the honor of our people. It is a deplorable fact that the repeated attacks made upon the Jewish faith which have been tolerated for years have resulted in these new outbreaks.
“The will of the late Professor Michael Facsanu and several isolated declarations by priests are like rays of sunshine in the darkness which is upon us. I hope that at this moment when civilization is in peril, the Church of the Roumanian people and State will speak its word to all the inhabitants of the country, thereby protecting the honor of religion and of the fatherland. As the representative of the Jewish faith, I express my regret, knowing how much you as the Chief Priest of the Roumanian State suffer from such events which are an affront to religion and civilization.”
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