We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example. I was not Jewish, but I pronounced my r's as the French do and was often taken for a Jew, for which I was ruthlessly bullied.... It was the time of the rise of Nazism and everyone was becoming pro-Nazi - writers, teachers, biologists, historians ... It was a plague! They despised France and England because they were yiddified and racially impure. (Eugène Ionesco)

We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example. I was not Jewish, but I pronounced my r's as the French do and was often taken for a Jew, for which I was ruthlessly bullied.... It was the time of the rise of Nazism and everyone was becoming pro-Nazi - writers, teachers, biologists, historians ... It was a plague! They despised France and England because they were yiddified and racially impure.

Eugène Ionesco

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