A detailed account of the mass meeting at the Kehillath Israel Congregation will appear in later editions of the Jewish Daily Bulletin today.
More than seven hundred new members were recruited by the Bronx Division of the American Jewish Congress last night, following a rousing meeting held at the Kehillath Israel Congregation, 1600 Crotona Park East, Bronx. New York Jewish leaders spoke at the mass meeting, protesting against Nazi oppression in Germany and against the heralded Nazi attempt to institute a boycott against American Jewry.
The meeting initiated a movement to organize the Bronx community into active anti-Nazi work, and was arranged under the auspices of the McKinley Square section of the Congress.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wisc, honorary president of the American Jewish Congress, spoke with deep feeling against the Nazi persecution. Other speakers were M. Maldwin Fertig, William Lyman, Martin M. Frank, Magistrate Benjamin E. Greenspan, Sydney Rosenthal, Registrar Herman M. Albert, Assemblyman Samuel Weisman and Isidore Teitelbaum, chairman of the Bronx Division of the Congress. M. Jason Gould, chairman of the McKinley Square Section, presided. Dr. S. Margoshes, vice-president of the Congress, was unable to attend as had been scheduled, because of illness.
The meeting last night was the first of a series of events in the borough, designed to effect a strong and organized movement against Nazism.
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