A writer's association in
Moldova reportedly has nominated Paul Goma, a Romanian author accused of
writing anti-Semitic texts, for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sunday 17 February 2013
Romanian author accused of anti-Semitism nominated for Nobel Prize
“Paul Goma’s claims to fame is
only by denying the Holocaust, falsifying historical facts and
anti-Semitic attacks," Iosif Belous, vice president of the East European
Association of Former Prisoners of Ghettos and Concentration Camps, is
quoted as saying on Enews.md, a news site from Moldova.
Belous was reacting to the Union of Moldovan Authors’
nomination of Goma – a Romanian nationalist - to the Nobel Prize in
Literature, according to Adevarul, a Bucharest-based daily.
Marco Maximillian Katz, director of the Center for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism in Romania, has written that Goma expressed “ferocious and hateful anti-Semitism” which suggests “Jews are guilty of the Holocaust.”
According to Katz’s analysis of
writings by Goma, the Romanian author suggested in the publication Vatra
Review in 2002 that the 1940 massacre in Dorohoi in which 53
people were murdered was a retaliation by Romanian troops against Jews
and “an answer to aggression, an eye for an eye.”
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/02/17/3119791/romanian-author-accused-of-anti-semitism-nominated-for-nobel-prize#When:18:53:00Z
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