IASI JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
Accepted
24 March 2026
Available Online
15 November 2012
Abstract
THE JEWISHCOMMUNITY FROM IASI WAS ONE OF THE MOSTIMPORTANT COMMUNITIES IN ROMANIA. BETWEEN 1938 -1941, THE JEWS WERE TARGETED BY DISCRIMINATORY RACIST LAWS, PROHIBITED FROM ACTIVITY IN SEVERAL ECONOMIC SECTORS, PART OF THEM WERE FIRED FROM ROMANIAN FIRMS, AND CATEGORIES OF JEWISH PROPERTIES AND BUSSINES WERE IN THE PROCESS OF “ROMANIZATION”. ALTHOUGH THE HEIGHT OF RACIST MEASURE AGAINST THE JEWS FROM IASI WAS AT THE END OF JUNE 1941, REPRESSION AND ANTI -SEMITIC LAWS CONTINUED UNTIL 1944.END OF THE WAR IN 19 45 MEANT FOR ALL A PERIOD OF RECOVERY AND INTEGRATION, A TIME WHEN ANTI -SEMITIC LAWS WERE REMOVED. THE JEWS FROM IASI TRIED TO RETURN TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE INTERWAR PERIOD. BUT MANY OF SOCIAL AND MEDICAL INSTITUTION WERE CONFISCATED OR CLOSED, THE ZI ONIST ASSOCIATION WERECONSIDERED DANGEROUS TO THE STATE. IN 1945 WAS CREATED JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE, “A JEWISH INSTITUTION FOR ALL JEWS”. THE REAL PURPOSE OF JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE WAS TO CONTROL ALL THE JEWS, TO SECURE THE SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION. ONE OF MY MAIN GOALS OF THE STUDY WAS TO ANALYZE THE MAIN DOCUMENTS OF JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE, AND TO OBSERVE THE IMPACT AND THE CONSECQUENCES OF THIS ORGANIZATION.
Keywords
JEWISH
JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
COMMUNISM
COLLABORATION
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