/lit/ - Literature

>>12564600
Unlike today, maybe, antisemitism in Romania then had its reasons

>By 1825, Jewish population in Wallachia (almost completely Sephardi) was estimated at between 5,000 and 10,000 people - of these, the larger part resided in Bucharest (probably as much as 7,000 in 1839); around the same time, Moldavia was home to about 12,000 Jews.[33] In parallel, the Jewish population in Bukovina rose from 526 in 1774 to 11,600 in 1848.[34] In the early 19th century, Jews who sought refuge from Osman Pazvantoğlu's campaign in the Balkans established communities in Wallachian-ruled Oltenia.

>When Charles von Hohenzollern succeeded Cuza(that was anti Jewish immigration in Romania) in 1866 as Carol I of Romania, the first event that confronted him in the capital was a riot against the Jews. (Against the immigration of Jews)
Carol was OK with the Jews, some say that's the reason Cuza was dethroned

>By 1900 there were 250,000 Romanian Jews [...] 42% of Iași population

>antisemitism also tended to surface in on the left-wing of the political spectrum, in currents originating in Poporanism - which favoured the claim that peasants were being systematically exploited by Jews.

>The popularity of anti-Jewish messages was, nevertheless, on the rise, and merged itself with the appeal of fascism in the late 1920s - both contributed to the creation and success of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu's Iron Guard and the appearance of new types of anti-Semitic discourses (Trăirism and Gândirism). The idea of a Jewish quota in higher education became highly popular among Romanian students and teachers.

In this book you have exactly this, the perspective of a Romanian student, Codreanu, and how he became aware about the JQ, the events that lead to him creating the Iron Guard and more