Emphasizing that Jewry throughout the world faces a crisis which has plunged thousands, particularly in Central Europe, into material ruin and spiritual despair, the press of Great Britain features many articles on Rosh Hashonah.
“Events during the past year in Germany might have broken a nation less bound to traditional ties than the Jews,” one newspaper observes, “but hatred and persecutions conducted with barbarous calculations have resulted in uniting world Jewry against its enemies.”
The Sunday Referee remarked:
“In this struggle the Jews have the sympathy of all civilized men and women. The active support given to them by distinguished non-Jews attests, despite political reaction, that humanity will never be silenced.”
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