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What was the economic rationale behind the expulsion of the Jews from Romania?
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The economic rationale behind the expulsion of the Jews from Romania was that they were suffocating the Romanian middle class and needed to be expelled. The program was criticized from early on by Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Iorga's fellow nationalist and post-"Junimist", who noted that the economic rationale behind it was unsound.