Între reuşită şi eşec. Politici şcolare evreieşti în Parlamentul României (1922-1931)
Between Success and Failure. Jewish School Policies in the Romanian Parliament (1922-1931)

Summary/Abstract: Between Success and Failure. Jewish School Policies in the Romanian Parliament (1922-1931). The present paper deals with the situation of the Jewish schools in Romania in the thirties, focussing on the endeavors of the Jewish members in the Parliament to improve their status. While shortly after the end of World War I the Romanian authorities seemed favorable to the aspirations of the ethnic minorities, including the Jews, after 1922, the governmental policy took a turn for the worse, several restrictive measures placing the Jewish schools in a most difficult position. The Anghelescu bill for private education, issued in May 1925, forbade the Jews to study in their maternal language, which triggered the prompt response of the Jewish political and journalistic circles. The interventions and approaches of the Jewish members in the Lower and Upper Chambers of the Parliament came to nothing and the Anghelescu bill remained in force throughout the inter-war period. In spite of several partial achievements concerning the cutting down of exam fees, the increase in the number of Jewish schools that were granted license to function, etc., the liberal and the Peasants' Party governments were equally uninterested to find a final solution to the problem of the Jewish schools as desired by the Parliament members of the respective minority.

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