"In the Soviet era, Jews were viewed as suspect in their loyalties and frequently barred from universities or sensitive jobs. With the fall of the Iron Curtain, they began streaming out of Russia to Israel, Western Europe and the United States. The situation has changed for Russia's Jewish community, which is estimated to number just under a million and plays an important role in public and cultural life."
If this was true in Russia, it sure wasn't true in Romania. All my parents friends were Jewish: they were architects, doctors, writers, poets, engineers, chairs at the University etc. The "bad" feeling toward Jews in Romania, if any, stemmed from the fact that they were 1) the only ones who could emigrate 2) the only ones who got money and consumer goods from abroad, which they could sell for a tidy sum.
Joanna