Mihai Eminescu on Jews

Mihai Eminescu Eminovici (15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. 

"If today, when they do not yet have full civil rights or political ones, they have taken over all commerce and all small industry in Moldavia; if today they have flaunted themselves frightfully over Romanian plains; if today they are nesting in the hearth of the industrious Oltenians; what will it be like tomorrow when they will be granted equal rights, when they will be able to call themselves Romanians, when they will have inscribed into laws the formal right that this fatherland is theirs just as much as it is ours!"

(Complete works, The Israelite Question, p. 489, Iasi, the lonescu-Georgescu Bookstore, 1914. Quoted by Alex Naum).

And on page 48:

"By what labors or sacrifices have they won for themselves the right, to aspire to equality with the Romanian people? Was it they who fought the Turks, Tartars, Poles and Hungarians? Was it they who were punished when the old treaties were broken? Was it through their efforts that the fame of this country spread, that this language was disinterred from the veilings of the past? Was it through one of them that the Romanian people won its right to sunlight?"

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu "For My Legionaries"

[caption id="attachment_5067" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Mihai Eminescu bronze bust by Ion Georgescu (1856 - 1898) - Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace (picture taken by me)[/caption]