The Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania ( ro, Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România, FCER) is an
ethnic minority political party in
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...
representing the
Jewish community
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
.
History
The organization was originally founded as the Federation of Unions of Jewish Communities in Romania ( ro, Federaţiei Uniunilor de Comunităţi Evreiești din România, links=no, FUCER) in 1936 by the Unions of Communities of the Old Kingdom and of the Provinces ( ro, Uniunile de Comunităţi din Vechiul Regat și din Provincii, labels=none), which included the Union of Jewish Communities of the Old Kingdom, the Union of Jewish Communities of Transylvania and Banat, the Union of Jewish Communities of Bucovina, and the Union of Jewish Communities of Bessarabia. The first elected president of the organization was Sigmund Birman, a philanthropist and industrialist. From 1941 to 1944 it was banned by the government of dictator
Ion Antonescu, and replaced with the
pro-government Jewish Centre of Romania ( ro, Centrala Evreilor din România, labels=none), before being re-established in 1945. It took on its current name in 1949.
The FCER contested the
1996 general elections, receiving 12,746 votes (0.1%) and winning a single seat in the
Chamber of Deputies under the electoral law allowing political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from the
electoral threshold
The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of the primary vote that a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can ...
only applied as long as they received 10% of the vote required for a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies.
1992 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies
University of Essex[ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1585 ] The party has won a seat in every election since.
Electoral history
Leaders
* Sigmund Birman (1936–1940)
* W. Filderman (1940–1941; 1945–1947)
* Maximilian Popper (1948–1951)
* Israel Bacalu (1951–1961)
* Moses Rosen (1964–1994)
* Nicolae Cajal (1994–2004)
* Iulian Sorin (''interim'', 2004–2005)
* Aurel Vainer (2005–2020)
* Silviu Vexler (since 2020)
See also
* Jewish Party, a political party representing the Jewish community in Romania between 1931 and 1948.
*Jewish Democratic Committee
The Jewish Democratic Committee or Democratic Jewish Committee ( ro, Comitetul Democrat Evreiesc, CDE, also ''Comitetul Democrat Evreesc'', ''Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc''; he, הוועד הדמוקרטי היהודי; hu, Demokrata Zsidó Komi ...
, a Communist-aligned political party representing the Jewish community in Romania between 1945 and 1953.
References
External links
Official website
{{Authority control
Non-registered political parties in Romania
Political parties of minorities in Romania
Jews and Judaism in Romania
Jewish political parties