Jewish Communities of Romania: Proposal for a Jewish Newspaper
Description:
This folder contains two documents written by Bernard Kahana of Brașov in 1941. One is an introductory letter addressed to Fildermann, president of the Federation and with a signed note added (in Romanian) by Șafran, head rabbi at the time. The other is an extensive proposal by Kahana to establish a Jewish newspaper in Romania. It appears that Kahana owned a printing press or ran a newspaper which was shut down and seized in the wake of anti-Semitic laws and he is now proposing to found a paper which would be permitted under the new legal framework. The seven page, closely typed proposal is valuable as it sets out the situation at the time of Jews in Romania, the sudden importance of strong communal institutes, the changes wrought in Jewish consciousness since the start of the war and anti-Semitic legislation, and touches on many aspects of Jewish life, religious, secular, Zionist, etc. Everything is in German, indicating (presumably) Kahana's Transylvanian background and probably that he was not a fluent, or at least confident, Romanian speaker.
There is no indication as to how these documents became the property of the central National Archives branch in Bucharest. They were processed in 1987.
Call Number:
Colecția Comunități Evreiești din România; inventar nr. 3001; 22/1941
Bibliographic Citation:
Colecția Comunități Evreiești din România; inventar nr. 3001; 22/1941; Direcţia Arhive Naţionale Istorice Centrale