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Launching a Jewish World Congress?: If Four Million Jews of America and Three Million Jews of Poland

June 26, 1931
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If the four million Jews of America and the three million Jews of Poland join together to constitute a Jewish World Congress, since the three million Jews of Russia are eliminated under the existing conditions there, it means that half the Jews of the world will have agreed to hold a Jewish World Congress, and the other, smaller sections of Jewry will follow their lead, Mr. Ab Goldberg, one of the leaders of American Zionism, said in addressing the Conference of Jewish leaders in Poland which met here to-day on his invitation to consider the plan of the American Jewish Congress, which he is representing, to call a Jewish World Congress and to secure the representation of Polish Jewry at the preliminary consultative Jewish World Conference which it is calling for July 12th at Basle.

All the speakers in the discussion which followed expressed themselves in agreement with the idea of a Jewish World Congress, but pointed out it would be difficult to unite all the various sections of Polish Jewry on a Congress platform. Most of them also urged that Zionism would have to be the crux of any Jewish World Congress.

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