(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Much indignation was aroused by the anti-Semitic remarks which Professor Lubarsch, director of the Pathological Institute here, made during a lecture.
Professor Lubarsch, who is a converted Jew, made these remarks while demonstrating certain organs of Ivan Kutisker who died in prison on July 12 and whose body was turned over to the Institute for study. Professor Lubarsch referred to the fact that Kutisker had been an East European Jew and made insulting remarks with regard to East European Jews in general, to the merriment of the students.
The “Berliner Tageblatt” criticises the professor, declaring that Lubarsch himself is descended from Jews and therefore probubly indulges in tirades against the Jews, thinking thus to conceal his origin. The paper further draws attention to the fact that Kutisker did not die a convicted man but was awaiting the result of his appeal.
Ivan Barueh Kutisker, who was sentenced to five years imprisonment on charges of credit fraud in transactions with the Prussian State Bank, died the day before the judgment on his appeal was to have been given. The charges against Kutisker, a Latvian Jew, were, like those against the Barmat brothers, part of the anti-Semitic campaign conducted by the German Nationalists who sought in this way to compromise the Prussian Government and bring about the return to power of the anti-Semitic party who would then proceed to the expulsion of all foreign Jews.
When the Barmat investigation was concluded recently, it was stated that the charges had been invented by the German Nationalists for the purpose of anti-Jewish propaganda.
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