Reference Type: Book Section
Author: Brătescu, Liviu
Year: 2008
Title: Căderea guvernului liberal-radical (1867-1868). Un episod al problemei evreieşti din România
Translated Title: [The Fall of the Radical Liberal Government (1867-1868). An Episode of the Jewish Issue in Romania]
Editor: Ciobanu, Vasile - Radu, Sorin
Book Title: Partide politice şi minorităţi naţionale din România în secolul XX
City: Sibiu
Publisher: Techno Media
Volume: 3
Pages: 12-28
Language: Romanian
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, modern period, politics, economy, minority rights, legal status, legislation, antisemitism
Abstract: (En) Installed on the Romanian throne in a period of maximum political tension and economic-social crisis, the king Carol of Hohenzollern had to solve a few essential issues for the normal working of the State. Some of these issues were related to ensuring a certain political steadiness, others to accelerating the modernizing process of the economy, and last but not least a part of its energy was about to focus on modifying the international juridical statute of the country. But at the same time two issues that hadn't been solved by the former regime were about to be on the agenda of the Romanian political class and to arouse numerous vivid debates. When saying that, we consider the issue of centralizing and decentralizing the Romanian State and what was called „the Jewish issue". Whereas the first half of the 19th Century was characterized by local incidents between the Jews and the Romanians, after the 1848 Revolution the Romanian political elite started to consider the statute of the Jewish minority in a way that showed a small chance of granting it political rights. There can be seen an important involution when comparing the provisions of the programmatic documents during the 1848 Revolution such as The Islaz Proclamation, with the well-known 7th article of the 1866 Constitution. Until 1866 the Jewish issue had been in the attention of the Romanian political class of the intellectual elite, who felt the need to discuss this issue and to take action. But after 1866 this issue had withdrawn in itself a lot, becoming then a pressure factor on the Romanian political class and thus contributing to the breaking of political alliances, falling of governments and isolations of Romanian political leaders on an international level. The crisis of 1868 which ended with the fall of the radical liberal government was about to find out unsuspected solidarities between certain political leaders who had been remarked for several years by their attitudes towards the Jewish issue, great differences between their real convictions and their oral speeches, as well as a special way of conceiving the relation with the alteration.
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