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Dissection Dispute Temporarily Solved

January 4, 1935
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The problem of supplying Jewish students with bodies for dissection was temporarily settled today when the Warsaw Anatomical Institute furnished them with the body of a Jewish woman.

Jewish students complained bitterly that the rule in Warsaw schools forbidding Jews to dissect the bodies of Christians was preventing them from completing their medical courses. The problem was aggravated by the fact that Jewish law forbids dissection.

The students besieged the offices of the Warsaw Jewish community, demanding that bodies of indigent Jewish dead who die in hospitals be given to them for dissection.

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