Regarding the emmancipation of the French Jews:
Louis, most Romanians are Napoleon-huggers. Because Napoleon was an enemy of Austria, Russia and the Ottoman Empire. So whenever Napoleon gets accused of something << clubbing baby seals, stealing candy>>, Romanians react. My pro-Napoleon stance was a little biased because of that. Most Bessarabian Romanians associate Napoleon with all the good stuff at the beginning of the 20'th century.

So I wasn't anti-semitic when I reacted to Mendill, I was simply expressing that biased atttitude towards Napoleon (I was expecting you French to worship him like some sort of a God).Had he replaced Napoleon with a Burbon I would have agreed. I replied Mendill simply because it was a shock to me that a French could loathe Napoelon, when among Romanians he has earned some idol status. That was all. Yes, I'm a Napoleon fanboy.

Louis, glad you spoted that ambiguities.

Here is my understanding of the situation:

Jews have lived alongisde Romanians in Moldova since 1000 AD ( we have a rabbinical letter which mentions Erdely during this period.The first mention of Erdely is in a rabbinical writing). That makes the Jewish diaspora in Romania the oldest in Europe.

In 1808 Moldova is split by the Russian Empire.The diaspora is also divided. In Romania Ghica issues the only anti-semitic law you could find worthy of interest "Jews are banned from settling in villages."

In Bessarabia both the Romanian and Jewish elements ware persecuted (Romanians ware denationalised, forced to learn Russian, uprooted or deported; Jews ware killed during the Kisinev progrom of 1903).

When WW1 ended, Jews in Transcarpathia and Bessarabia welcomed the Romanian forces because they ware better than the White Russian anti-semitic elements which haunted the region.

Meanwhile Soviet Russia managed the complete emancipation of the jews that is it passed legislation which banned anti-semitism. Many Jews desired that kind of emancipation which was not yet possible in Romania (corruption and power struggles between the many parties prevented satisfactory legislation to be passed).

Hostility as you mentioned from the Romanian population during the 1907 paysan uprisings saw a couple of Jews killed.Most Holocaust scholars avoid this episode because the army back then under the command of Ion Antonescu crushed the rebellion in a bloodbath.Can you imagine a paysan uprising in 20 century Europe?. Most scholars who research anti-semitism in Romania avoid this incident because it would conflict with the ideea that anti-semitism was widespread and found support from the Army.

Here are some ambiguites.

Why didn't Bessarabian Jews protest the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact? After all, their champion, the Soviet Union signed a pact which had thousands of Polish Jews fell under anti-semitic laws. If the Jews ware truely one voice, why didn't they raise it for their Polish bretheren?
The obvious answer was "Interesul poarta fesul" or their agenda was different then that of the Polish Jews.In the early 1940 Jews ware not an unified mass, that unification came only after Israel was estwblished and the Jews finally had a common ground.

The Soviets had plenty of reasons to handle leadership of the occupied area to the Jews.
a) They ware among the most loyal citizens
b) They ware literate
c) They ware gratefull for the complete emmancipation brought by the Soviet Constitution
d) They feared the not-yet-fully-emmancipated Romanians
e) They feared anti-Semitism among the Romanian population.

So fear of anti-semitism among the Jews combined with their brilliant logistics recommanded them for offices in the occupied Bessarabia and Bukovina.The task of deporting Romanians and coordinating the Russian immigrants fell on the Jewish leaders.The persecutions continued up to Galati. The Soviet plan included the expansion up to Siret R.

In the South (Oltenia and Unnocupied Transylvania) the geopolitical conditions ware different and this areas became a safe refuge for many Hungarian Jews. Romanian jews established here ware never persecuted.In fact Cluj (Kolosvar) rabbi MOSHE CARMILLY WEFNBERGER found refuge in Romania.

I am fully aware that there was no Jewish conspiracy regarding Romania.Geopolitically speaking, the Jews themselves ware divided and Jewish accounts differ.

Have you seen the level of violence in some prisons. Wrongly accused gentlemen bullying eachother.Neither Jews or Romanians had a choice those days and the bloodshed was horrible. However I see no reason to ignore the loss of life from the Romanian side, which as you said wasn't fully emancipated. Just like Prussian Iron or Hooahguy see no reason to ignore the loss of life from their side.

Here we can't have a pattern as observed elsewhere: The Iron Guard was exterminated by the Antonescu regime, the Antonescu regime was obliterated by the Army before its defeat could happen, Romania changed sides during the war, before 1939 the Fascist elite was wiped out.

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"Jews in Romania owe to Antonescu both life and death"

That is why we have different accounts. That is why I deal with war crimes commited in Moldova and Bessarabia by and against 1/2 of my people (I am 1/2 Romanian, 1/4 Ukrainian, 1/4 Polish).
Antonescu is considered a war criminal by both fascists and Jews.
Likewise I belive the likes of Anna Pauker and Moises Haupt could be considered criminals by both Romanians and Jews.