Attack Budapest Rabbi for Pro-hungarian Stand

(J. T. A. Mail Service)

The Czechoslovakia press has been attacking Chief Rabbi Simon Hevesi of Budapest, the Jewish organ “Egyenloeseg” here says in an article on the subject of the Hebrew prayer books recently confiscated in Czechoslovakia, said to contain prayers for the restoration of pre-War Hungary.

A number of serious charges, the “Egyenloeseg” says, are being made against Chief Rabbi Hevesi because he has issued an appeal to Jews throughout the world in the interests of Hungary for the revision of the Peace Treaty of Trianon. Attacks are made also on Hungarian Jewry because the Hungarian Jewish Community presented this appeal to Prime Minister, Count Bethlen. “The Jews of the Dohny Temple in Budapest,” the Czechoslovakian papers said “who have consciously removed themselves from blood affinity with world Jewry, have suddenly discovered the vein of Jewish solidarity in themselves.”

“These attacks upon Hungarian Jewry, the “Egyenloeseg” says, are made at a time when there is talk in Hungary of a move towards the Right,” when the anti-Semitic leader, Julius Gomboes, is to march with his anti-Semitic troop into the Government Party, when every day we hear only of the strengthening of social and economic anti-Semitism. This at the very time when the entire foreign press is mobilized against the ‘diseased patriotism’ of the Hungarian Jews. We write this not in order to praise ourselves. We expect recognition neither for Hungarian Jewry nor for Chief Rabbi Hevsi, but we register this fact for history., from which we expect justice not only for our Fatherland but for ourselves.”