Commenting on the recent outbreak of anti-Jewish incidents, the independent newspaper, Semnalul, warns the Rumanian people that “anti-Semitism is undesirable because it could jeopardize Rumanian interests abroad.”
At the same time Peasant leader Juliu Maniu’s newspaper accuses Foreign Minister Gheorghe Tartarescu of not only supporting anti-Semitism morally, but of having organized pogroms while Premier under King Carol.
Representatives of Rumania’s 20,000 Sephardic Jews, in an interview with a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent, appealed to the Sephardic Jews of the world to help them rebuild their Bucharest synagogue, which was destroyed in 1941 by Iron Guardists.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
