An unusual Jewish ceremony, the first of its kind in Warsaw, was held here Wednesday when for the first time a Jewish corpse was formally submitted to the Protectorium of the Warsaw University. This was done in order that the Jewish medical students of the University might be able to do anatomical work on dead bodies, having been restricted from experimenting on Christian corpses.
The body turned over to the University was that of the late Nachome Lipschitz, a woman, who in her younger days, was very wealthy and had lived in Russia, but died recently in the Warsaw Jewish Hospital in poverty, having been a beggar in the streets of Warsaw before her death.
At the request of the Jewish medical students, who were handicapped in (Continued on Page 2)
Exactly at midnight the representatives of the Chevra Kadisha Society came to the hospital. clad entirely in black and carrying black candles, carried away the coffin containing the corpse. Seven times around the Protectorium of the University they carried the coffin, at the same time chanting chapters from the Psalms. Later the “Shames” begged the corpse’s forgiveness in the name of the Jewish Kehillah.
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