Ultranationalist newspapers such as Romania Mare. edited by two of Ceausescus former propagandists. regularly print antiSemitic and inflammatory articles. Romania Mare has the largest circulation of any weekly paper in Romania. Jews are accused of having been responsible for communism. and for currently holding too many positions of power. One paper decried the "inborn arrogance and superiority" of the Jewish race. Another advised Jews to "leave this country alone." Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen. who has received numerous threats. has urged Romanias remaining Jews to emigrate to Israel. Equally disturbing has been the recent effort to rehabilitate the memory of former dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu. executed as a war criminal in 1946. Earlier this month.
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Jews are accused of being responsible for communism and holding too many positions of power; they are described as having "inborn arrogance and superiority".