Curierul Israelit, organ of the Union of Rumanian Jews, protested today that Jews were being discriminated against in the application of the phrase “of ethnical origin other than Rumanian.”
Demanding a definition of the phrase, the paper said that in connection with the Rumanian language requirement for lawyers of such origin, the bar authorities refused to recognize Jews having parents and forefathers born in Rumania as being of rumanian origin, while first-generation non-Jews were recognized as Rumanians. Declaring that religion was made the decisive criterion for ethnical descent, the paper said this contradicted the principles of the new regime.
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