(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Jewish population of the province of Transylvania, formerly a part of Hungary and now a part of Roumania, again faces the dilemma concerning its identity.
The question of establishing its identity will have to be met in the census which will shortly be taken in the province. In connection with this the Hungarians are urging their former compatriots to declare themselves Hungarians. The Roumanian government in telegraphic despatches urged the Jewish population of Transylvania to declare themselves Roumanians of Mosic faith. The Jewish nationalists urge them to declare themselves “of Jewish nationality and Roumanian citizenship.”
Dr. William Filderman, president of the Union of Roumanian Jews in Bucharest, in a statement issued to the press, urged Transylvania Jews to answer the question of ethnical origin by saying Jews, to reply to the question of nationality by describing themselves as Roumanians and to declare themselves of Mosaic faith in reply to the question of religion.
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