Мирча Элиаде: молодые годы

In 1934, in a debate between Mircea Eliade, a popular intellectual in Corneliu Zelea Codreanu’s anti-Semitic League of the Archangel Michael, and C. Racoveanu, a so-called Romanian expert on Christian Orthodox issues, Racoveanu, citing the Gospels (John7:24), claimed that the Jews were damned forever for being and remaining Jewish. Eliade, also employing the Gospels (John 39:44), challenged the Orthodox Church’s representative’s interpretation, suggesting that the Jews were condemned forever not because they remained Jews or refused to accept Christ as the Messiah, but rather because they were the “children of the Devil”.

William I. Brustein, Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust