Although this is no excuse, the Romanians were no exception - the Poles, for instance, who were accorded independence in 1919, were equally "happy and excited" with the millions of Jews who lived there, and discriminated against them from the start.
Hag Sameah
Mordecai
----- הודעה מקורית -----
מאת: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
תאריך: Saturday, October 11, 2014 3:01
נושא: Re: [Cz-L] Commemoration 1902
אל: Shelley <shemit65_at_gmail.com>
העתק: Fred Weisinger <fredweisinger16_at_gmail.com>, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>, Czernowitz Genealogy and History <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
> By comparison to Romania, Austria in 1918 was economically
> better developed, had a reasonably good civil service,
> good institutions of middle and higher learning,
> good medical care and a law system which stipulated equality
> of all the ethnic and religious groups.
>
> While the Romanians were very happy to be given both the districts
> of Bucovina and Transilvania, they were not at all pleased
> to suddenly have acquired a large Jewish population and
> discriminated against Jews with ever increasing intensity.
>
> Mimi
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