Ex-Deputy Elias Kirschbraun, the leader of the Polish Agudath Israel Organisation, has died. He was only 49 years of age. He had been suffering for a long time from heart trouble.
Ex-Deputy Kirschbraun was a member of the Club of Jewish Deputies in the Seym elected in 1922, but he strongly opposed the Gruenbaum policy, and in the 1928 elections was the leading spirit in the formation of a separate Jewish electoral list, consisting of the Agudath Israel, the Folkists, and the Jewish Merchants’ and Artisans’ Organisations, which opposed Deputy Gruenbaum’s Minorities Bloc. He was returned to Parliament on that list and on the floor of the Seym made several vigorous attacks on Deputy Gruenbaum, denying his right to speak on behalf of the Jewish population.
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