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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Bukawina Jews Leaders in Jewish
Party Politics of Rumania

BY LOBEL TAUBES.

That the Bukawinian Jews who pression of the rights of the Jews to
have already had great experience in complete political, social and cultural
the political field while their province freedom.
was part of the old Austria-Hungary
These am their demands in general.
should lead their Rumanian co-re- What are their specific demands:
ligionists, but recently emancipated First, that the Government should
and still inexperienced in political ac- support Jewish institutions to the
tivity, is hardly surprising.
same degree that it supports the in-
The Bukawinian Jews have been stitutions of the other national groups.
political pioneers in an even larger It should subsidize Jewish kinder-
sense. It has been pointed out in a gartens, grammar and intermediate
previous article that much of the an- schools, normal schools for teachers,
tagonism and hatred of the Jess's in and establish chairs of Jewish history,
Central Europe, particularly in Aus- Jewish science, and of the H ebrew
tria-Hungary, was the direct effect of language, in the universities attended
their stupid political affiliations which by large numbers of Jews.
made them the political tools of the
Second, since in the old Rumania
larger nationalistic groups, to he used no legally recognized Jewish organi•
in the suppression of the smaller zation existed, national popular coun-
groups. To the credit of Bukawinian cils should be established in all the
Jews let it be said that they were the Jewish communities, at the head of
first to recognize that only by form- them to be the Jewish National As-
ing a political party of their own to sembly.
act as an independent political unit
Third, in order to avoid dissension
may the Jews avoid dangerous en- between the various nationalities liv-
tanglements and cease to be the ing in the state, and also to assure the
scapegoat of the other nationalistic smaller national groups, the so-called
groups. Only after tasting the bitter "national minorities" a just represen-
fruits of their foolish harvest, have tation in the legislative bodies, special
the Jews of the other territories of electoral colleges should be establish-
Central Europe learned to profit by ed for all the various nationalities, in-
their example. All of them have now cluding the Jewish. These new
adopted the Jewish political program. bodies should send their representa-
In the first Rumanian elections tives to both houses of Parliament.
after the annexation of Bukawina, and
Fourth, all Jewish holidays and the
before the Peace 'Treaty with Ru- Sabbath should be recognized as days
mania was ratified, the Jews of that of rest in the Jewish schools.
province declined to participate. Great
Last, the Government should before
effort was exerted by the Rumanian all the world recognize the authority
• Government to induce all sections of of the Jewish Deputies Club as the
the enlarged country to take part in definite and legitimate organization of
the elections in order to manifest the Jewish members of Parliament
their affiliation w ith the new "father- and as the true exponent of the will
land." Of small numbers-102,000 ac- of the Jewish people of Rumania.
cording to 1910 census—but with
So much for the exclusively Jewish
great experience, the politically con- planks of the platform. It goes fur-
scious and mature Bukawinian Jews ther and expresses the organized
stuck to their resolution that as long opinion of Bukawinian Jewry upon
as the status of their province was general subjects such as world pi2ace,
not definitely decided, and while the social order, the League of Nations,
Rumanian Government failed to show questions which concern all the peo-
by act and deed that it was going to ple of Rumania regardless of nation-
fulfill its promises of equality to the ality.
To materialize this program the
Jews, they would not participate in
the elections. The Government, anx- Jewish National Party of Bukawina
ious to prove to the nations of the nominated the following candidates:
For the Chamber of Deputies: the
Entente that the Jews of Bukawina
were on Rumania's side, put on a cer- former Deputy of the Austrian Par-
liament
and the Bukawina 1.andtag,
tain lumber merchant, William Hecht
of Czernowitz as a candidate for the Dr. Streicher, and the well-known
Senate. Ile was elected by a mar- Zionist, Dr. Joseph Bierer.
For the Senate: the head of the
ginal majority, but the Bukawinian
Jews never recognized him as their it ti k aw ma Zionist Organization, Dr.
representative and denied that he had, Meyer Ebner.
a right to speak in the name of the •
Jewish people.
fate would have it.
Nlr. Hecht died As
soon after his elec-
tion, and his place in the Senate was I
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made vacant. This time it was felt
in governmental circles, that the
Munich.—The Bavarian government
whole of Bukawinian Jewry . mint lie has found it necessary to mollify the
interested in the election of Ileches • terms of its decree according to
successor w ho should actually repre-! which all the foreign Jews of Bavaria
sent it in the Senate.
Were to be expelled. It has decided
Meanwhile, the whole Parliament i not to deport all those Jews who
was dispelled because of internal p0-1 were former residents of Austria. It
litical dissension, and now all the was feared by the Bavarian govern-
citizens of greater Rumania are called: meet that these Austrian Jews would
upon to participate in a general elec-! upon their return to their own coun-
lion to both the Senate and Chamber try agitate against the union of
of Deputies. And the Jews also, whose Austria with Germaany. Of all the
political rights have in the main. al-I German states, Bavaria is the mos;
ready been recognized, for the first lanxious to bring about such a union,
time in the history of Rumania areibecause Austria like Bavaria is most-
to express their will in the adminis-11y Catholic, and the entry of a few
tration of their country. "Green" in I millions of Catholics into the German
the political field, the newcomers have empire would greatly reinforce the
turned to their veteran Bukawina co- Catholic ihtluence.
It was in order not to jeopardize
religionists for leadership and inspira-
lion. Their election platform, although this possible combination of forces
in certain points seeking to satisfy the that the Bavarian government deemed
particular needs of the Jews of Ituka-I it necessary not to deport the Au-
wina, still is sufficiently extensive in striae Jews living within its domain.
its scope to express the wishes of all, Since the latter constitute about
the Jews of the country. three-quarters of the foreign Jews in
Fiist and foremost in the platform Bavaria and also since many excel,
of the Jewish Deputies, Jewish Na- G u ns in the cases of prominent Jew-
tional Party of Bukawina has put out ish business and professional men of
the demand for a full Jewish Emanci- , other coutnries are also to be made,
the impending catastrophe which
pation.
The present emancipation of the would have resulted from a wholesale
expulsion is avoided. Only in the be-
is
based
merely
upon
a
decree
J ews
of the Government and has still to ginning were a number of barbarous
be enacted into constitutional law by outrages committed in the execution
the new Parliament. It rests with the of the government's decree. It is to
Jewish Deputies to see that the tragic be hoped that in the end only a few
experience with the famous seventh hundred instead of many thousands
paragraph of the Treaty of Berlin is of Jewish families will suffer from
not repeated. No Jewish Deputy Bavarian anti-Semitism.
should therefore consider himself the
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