between may and november 1933, "protoiereus" cecan published in chișinău the russian-language "telegraf" (also "bessarabsky telegraf" or "khristiansky telegraf"). this was an openly antisemitic tribune, with editorials in which cecan himself called for "destroying the jewish press", referring to bessarabian jews in particular as "leeches". the stance was praised by irénée merloz of the romanian assumptionists. according to merloz: "the press was entirely jewish and of a marked communist tendency, and so father jérémie cecan's review, then his newspaper, also have roles in social defense and in the workers' and peasants' organization, as well as in the religious unification with rome."