The Jewish community will furnish the corpses of indigent Jews who die in hospitals for use in studying anatomy, it was decided last night at a joint session of the Warsaw rabbinate and the Chesed Shel Emes, organization for the burial of indigent Jewish dead.
Warsaw Jewish medical students have complained to the community that their careers were endangered because they were unable to study anatomy, since they were required to furnish Jewish bodies for dissection.
Jewish corpses will be furnished the medical students, despite the fact that dissection is prohibited by Jewish law.
Only the bodies of charity patients who die in Jewish hospitals and are without relatives will be given, it was decided.
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