«Iaşi». yivoencyclopedia.org. YIVO. Besøkt 22. april 2022. «In October 1855, the first Yiddish newspaper in Romania, which bore the Hebrew title Korot ha-‘itim, was published in Iaşi. It was issued twice a week until 1871, with a few interruptions. The bilingual newspaper Gazeta Româno-Evreiască (The Romanian Jewish Gazette) was issued in 1859; it was edited by Marcu Feldman-Câmpeanu and championed emancipation and the modernization of the education system. (---) Antisemitism was rife in Iaşi at the turn of the century. Several academics at Iaşi University were prominent antisemitic propagandists, among them the economist Alexandru Constantin Cuza and the chemist Constantin Şumuleanu. Antisemitic students organized a violent demonstration in May 1899, beating Jews and attacking Jewish shops. Several antisemitic incidents also took place during the peasant uprising of 1907, as well as in 1909 when the play Manasse by Ronetti Roman was performed at the National Theater in Iaşi.»
