The Vienna Jewish community, which has been bitterly fighting against the segregation of Jewish children in special ghetto schools, was placed in a peculiar position yesterday, when the Reichspost, official government organ, triumphantly announced that the Agudath Israel was supporting the school decree.
At the same time the Reichspost published a demand made by the Agudath Israel, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish group, that the leadership of the Jewish community be handed over to Orthodox Jewish elements. At present the Zionist groups control the Jewish community.
Neuigkeits Weltblatt, another government organ, threatened the Jews of Austria with a new anti-
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