Direct contact between the Jewish population of the Vilna district, whose inclusion in Poland has been contested by the Lithuanian Government with the result that the frontier between the two countries has been closed, has at last been re-established. A party of Polish Jews, mostly from the Vilna district, has gone to Kovno by special permission of the Polish and Lithuanian Governments in order to take part in the Conference of Orthodox Jews in Kovno.
At the same time, a party of Kovno Jews has arrived in Vilna. They have come across the Polish-Lithuanian frontier by special permission of the Lithuanian authorities, and armed with special permits issued by the Polish frontier guards.
The excursion has been arranged by the Vilna branch of the Hebrew Tarbuth Organization in Poland, for the Jubilee of the Hebrew Teachers’ Seminary of the Tarbuth Organization in Vilna. The Tarbuth workers from Lithuania will acquaint themselves with the Tarbuth schools and the pedagogic and cultural work of the Tarbuth Organization in Poland. They will stay about 19 days in Vilna.
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