There is no prospect of Jewish immigration from Roumania and Poland to Bulgaria, Deputy Michael Landau, the Jewish representative from Kishineff in the Club of Jewish Deputies who has just returned here from the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, where he went to look into the question following the invitation extended recently by the former Bulgarian Minister of Education, M. Omarchewsky, said when he discussed the matter with the J.T.A. representative here to-day.
There is a critical economic situation in Bulgaria, Deputy Landau said, which makes any immigration there at all completely out of the question. Mr. Omarchewsky’s invitation extended to Roumanian and Polish Jews in his interview with the J.T.A. during his visit to New York recently, he declared, is completely unauthorised and cannot be taken seriously. I have discussed the matter with the Bulgarian authorities and the leaders of Bulgarian Jewry and there is no likelihood whatever of any Jewish immigration to the country.
A few days ago the Bulgarian Ambassador in Warsaw gave a statement to the J.T.A. there on the same question, in which he said that Bulgaria would welcome the immigration of Jews with capital who could establish new enterprises in the country, but there was no opening at all there for Jews seeking employment.
M. Omarchewsky, former Bulgarian Minister of Education, who is now on a visit to the United States on the invitation of the Carnegie Endowment Fund to study American educational methods, said in his interview with the J.T.A.: “The Bulgarian nation, poor but hopeful, hereby extends an invitation to the poor, persecuted suffering Jews of Roumania and Poland, to come to Bulgaria and help us build up a prosperous country. We are free from the disease of antisemitism. We give our 50,000 Jews full freedom and equality. Let the East European Jews come to Bulgaria and engage in whatever lawful pursuit they may desire. We guarantee them protection, religious liberty and the right of cultural self-espression.
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