The policy of the Polish government in that it is directed only for the benefit of the Poles, was sharply criticized by Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum during the debate on the budget before the plenum of the Sejm.
The Jewish Deputy charged the Polish government with trying to amelirate the lot of the purely Polish population, at the expense of the Jews. The present tactics of the government are leading to the economic extermination of the Jews and their utter elimination from the commercial and industrial life of the country, he asserted.
He also uttered a sharp protest against the government’s policy in favoring what he described as “reactionary elements within Jewish life,” referring to the Agudath Israel and assimilationist elements, who are favored and played off by the Government at the expense of the general Jewish population.
Rabbi Levin, representing the Agudath Israel, which is at present progovernment, in the Sejm, sharply polemicized against Deputy Gruenbaum.
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