Jews in this city have withdrawn from active participation in the communal life of the Hungarian colony here because of the open and masked anti-Jewish attitude taken by its leaders.
The anti-Semitic policy of the Hungarian Government is finding an echo among certain Hungarian groups in the United States. Only recently the Hungarian paper “A Mi Lapunk,” published in Bridgeport, carried on its front page an attack on Hungarian Jews. The paper describes itself as the organ of all Hungarian Church groups in New England. The anti-Semitic article, signed by Rev. Karl Rapp, declared that “only one born of Hungarian blood is a Hungarian.” The article provoked severe criticism in the “Szabadsag,” a Cleveland Hungarian daily newspaper, which declared that Rev. Rapp’s “blood theory” reminds one of Hitler’s language.
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