The Government has decided to enforce complete Sunday closing in Slovakia, starting off with the town of Bratislava (a large and famous Jewish centre previously known as Pressburg) in the beginning of May.
The decision to enforce compulsory Sunday closing, despite the continuous protests and interventions made by the Jews for the last 12 years, is a terrible Passover gift from the Government to the Jews of Czecho-Slovakia, the Jewish press writes, imperilling either the Jewish religion or e…e Jewish economic life.
The Joint Foreign Committee in its report to the Jewish Board of Deputies in January referred to “a certain deterioration in the situation of the Jewish population” of Czecho-Slovakia, in connection with “the reported intention of the Czecho-Slovakian Government to enforce a Sunday Closing Law which would detrimentally affect the Jewish population”, as well as the Velka-Berezna blood libel affair, “and other incidents in that country”.
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