New Polish Parliament Has 14 Jewish Deputies, Final Returns Indicate

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Fourteen Jewish deputies were elected to the third Polish Sejm in the national elections which took place on Sunday, March 4, final returns received here show.

The preponderant majority of the new Jewish representation in the Sejm is Zionist. The Jewish labor parties Bund and Left Poale Zion, as well as the Volkist party headed by Noah Prylucki, failed to elect any deputies. The Agudath Israel will have two deputies, but they were not elected on the ticket of the party which combined with the Volkists in a national bloc, but on the pro-government list. Waclaw Wislicki and Kaufman were elected on the pro-government list.

The election which was just concluded has reduced the number of Jewish deputies to 41 percent of their former strength. The club of Jewish deputies in the second Polish Sejm numbered 34.

In addition to Isaac Gruenbaum, who was re-elected in Warsaw; H. Farbstein, re-elected in Bialystock; Dr. Osias Thon, re-elected in Cracow; Dr. Leon Reich and another Jewish deputy, who were elected in Lemberg; Dr. Jerzy Rosenblatt who was re-elected in Lodz; there were elected Dr. Jacob Wygodski in Vilna; Rabbi J. Brodt of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Mizrachi leader, was elected in Wloclawek; M. Rassner, representative of the Jewish artisans, was also elected.

Doubt seems still to prevail as to whether the candidate of the Left Poale Zion, which united with the Ukrainian workers in Wolyn, was elected.

A. Hartglass, Zionist, former deputy of Siedlce, was elected on the pro-government list.

The National Minorities bloc elected altogether 36 deputies, of whom 6 are Zionists and 1 representative of the Jewish artisans. The Zionists will have ten representatives in the Sejm. In Warsaw the number of votes cast for the National Minorities list amounted to 42,886, while at the previous election the National Minorities polled 50,558.

The election generally is viewed here as a great victory for the Pilsudski regime and it is very likely that his cabinet will have a majority in the new Sejm.

Jullus Rosenwald’s latest gift to the University of Chicago is $25,000 for graduate work and research in physics, mathematies and astronomy, President Max Mason of the University announced.

“Mr. Rosenwald’s gift goes to the support of three of the most distinguished departments of the university,” President Mason stated. “This group has a remarkable record to its credit, and this gift will help greatly in making possible an equally brilliant future.”