Jewish Press in Roumania in Danger: Funds Needed to Enable “ost-juedische Zeitung” to Continue: “uj

The “Ost-Juedische Zeitung”, edited by ex-Senator Dr. Layer Ebner, is now in its 13th. year in danger of closing down, because of lack of funds. The campaign started to save the “Ost-Juedische Zeitung” has not met with the success we hoped for, Dr. Ebner writes in the paper. Several districts in our own Province of Bukovina have not even taken any heed of our urgent appeal. In other districts the number of new subscribers is inadequate to compensate for the losses we have had because of the economic crisis. Nor are the Zionists doing their duty to this Jewish paper, he says, though the “Ost-Juedische Zeitung” has always served the interests of the Zionist movement and funds without receiving any financial assistance.

Roumanian Jewry, in these terrible times of economic and spiritual difficulties, need a paper published in a world language like German and fighting for nearly thirteen years for Jewish honour and Jewish interests, more urgently than in times of peace, quiet and economic security. We appeal to our friends not lightmindedly to allow our paper to die.

The “Uj Kelet”, the Jewish daily appearing in the Hungarian language in Cluj, the capital of Transylvania, which is the organ of the Jewish National Party of Roumania, suspended publication on November 2nd., because of financial difficulties, Dr. Ebner writes, but the Jews organised in the Jewish Party of Transylvania made strenuous efforts to raise a fund to enable it to reappear, and after a few days the “Uj Kelet” is again being published with an increased number of subscribers. That is the right answer to our enemies. But the response of the Jews of Bukovina to our appeal for the “Ost-Juedische Zeitung” is a disgrace. In this eleventh hour, we appeal again to our Party members to save us from having to close down.