Two ” ghetto concerts” scheduled to be given by the Jewish Cultural Union here were cancelled by the Nazi authorities at the eleventh hour today without explanation.
The former radio star, Joseph Schmidt, was slated to sing in one of the concerts, while Chayale Grober, singer of Jewish and Hebrew folk songs, was the featured performer in the other. Schmidt’s concert was to have been held at Philharmonic Hall, which had not been rented to Jews in more than a year.
The Jewish Cultural Union (Kulturbund) is the local branch of the national Federation of Jewish Kulturbunds which was organized under supervision of the Reich Department for” Non-Aryan” Culture, of which Dr. Hans Hinkel is the commissar. Dr. Georg Kareski, leader of the German State Zionist Party, was recently appointed president of the national organization.
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