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Rumania Bans All Anti- Semitic Literature from Public Libraries and Bookstores

September 29, 1948
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The Rumanian Ministry of Arts and Information today issued a list of more than 7,000 titles of books and periodicals which are banned from to be banned from all public libraries and bookstores.

The list includes all anti-Semitic, pro-Fascist and anti-Soviet literature published both in this country end abroad and which, up to the end of World War II, was widely circulated in Rumania. All editions of the Rumanian classics which contain anti-Semitic comments or passages will be withdraw and replaced by edited books.

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