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hosts, mainly im-
ported from abroad,
of Romania's anti-
Semitic, pro-Nazi past
haunted this country's small
and rapidly shrinking Jew-
ish community during the
recent election campaign.
It impelled Jews to vote
heavily for the ruling Na-
tional Salvation Front,
which won Sunday's elec-
tions by a landslide.
But fears are still alive
that Romania may be on the
edge of a new wave of anti-
Semitism.
Most Jews who spoke to
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency accused the opposi-
tion National Peasants Par-
ty of maintaining links to
supporters of the prewar fas-
cistic Iron Guard now living
in the United States and
Canada.
They charged that Iron
Guard supporters in North
America sent tons of anti-
Semitic literature and pam-
phlets to Romania recently.
Jewish community leaders
said they had unofficially
asked the customs au-
thorities to seize openly
racist material coming into
the country, especially from
North America. The deposed
Communist government of
Nicolae Ceausescu did not
sanction publication of Iron
Guard literature.
Most of it appeared to have
been printed in Detroit by
former supporters of the late
Archbishop Valerian Trifa,
who headed the Romanian
Orthodox Church in the
United States, many said by
force.
The Romanian-born Trifa,
an Iron Guardist and Nazi
collaborator, led the first
pogrom against Jews in
Bucharest in 1941. It was
one of the bloodiest, most
gruesome anti-Semitic
events in Holocaust history.
Trifa was stripped of his
U.S. citizenship and
deported after his Nazi past
was revealed. He died in
Portugal, never tried for any
crimes.
Jews charged that Peas-
ants Party publications,
which include more than a
dozen daily newspapers,
published anti-Jewish barbs
and innuendos during the
election campaign, aimed at
Front leaders of Jewish
origin.
For example, Front ideol-
G
ogist Silviu Brucan, a Jew,
was attacked on the eve of
Election Day for being neo-
Communist and of "foreign
origin."
There are Jews and people
of Jewish origin in the top
ranks of the National Salva-
tion Front.
Many, though not Jewish,
have close ties to the Jewish
community, which they
helped during Ceausescu's
long reign.
Prime Minister Petre
Roman's father and grand-
father were Jewish, which
accounts for some of his
campaign posters being
pasted over with Stars of
David and slogans such as
"Roman the Jew."
President Ion Iliescu's
second-in-command, Gelu
Voican- Voiculescu, is not
Jewish but nevertheless a
keen student of Jewish cul-
Jews are also
acutely sensitive to
the personality
differences
between Iliescu
and his rival.
ture, including the Talmud.
He is known from television
as the man with a small
white beard and khaki
uniform who conducted
Ceausescu's trial and over-
saw his execution and
burial.
Despite the ongoing tur-
moil, he made a point this
year of attending the second
seder at the table of
Romania's chief rabbi,
Moses Rosen, and dutifully
recited the Haggadah.
Another prominent mem-
ber of the regime who is
close to the Jewish commun-
ity, though not a Jew, is
Aurel Dragos Volcan,
Romania's ambassador to
the United Nations.
A former law professor
believed slated to become
foreign minister, Volcan has
one of the country's largest
private libraries of Judaica,
consisting of about 6,000
volumes. At the beginning of
the anti-Communist upris-
ing last December, Volcan
showed up at Rosen's home,
offering to post army guards
at Jewish institutions.
Although the best-known
Jew in the government is
Deputy Prime Minister
Brucan, two others who hold
ministerial portfolios are
Aurel Darius Muntean and
Paul Cornea.