Anti-jewish Agitation in University of Kovno

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Fighting between Jewish and anti-Semitic students took place at Kovno University following the posting up of anti-Semitic proclamations in the lecture rooms and the attempt of Jewish students to pull them down.

“The university, the sun of our land,” the proclamations said, “is packed with our exploiters, the Jews. They act as if they were equal owners of the place and push the real owners aside. Shall we tolerate this humiliation any longer?”

The proclamation complains that the Jews do not provide corpses for dissection and alleges that they desecrate the non-Jewish corpses. “The towns and villages are packed with Jewish doctors. We have no room in our country, and must emigrate to Canada or Brazil.”

The proclamation demands a Numerus Clausus at the university in proportion to the number of Jews in the country as established by the census, that Jewish corpses should be delivered for dissection in proportion to the number of Jewish students in the medical colleges, that the Jewish hospitals, clinics and laboratories should be open to all medical students. “Help us,” it concludes, “to rid our Alma Mater of our exploiters, the Jews. We call you to a general boycott.”