Deputy Sommerstein proceeded at this point to attack Deputy Minzberg, one of the leaders of the Agudath Israel, who is President of the Lodz Jewish Community, and who sits in Parliament as a member of the Government Party, for arguing that the Jewish Communities are only religious organisations. He claimed that the Jewish Communities are not only religious bodies, but are the organs of Jewish cultural autonomy.
Deputy Minzberg had made his statement in repudiating the attack on the Government in Deputy Dr. Rosmarin’s speech on behalf of the Club of Jewish Deputies (given in yesterday’s J.T.A. Bulletin) for having enacted the new Jewish Communities Law, which, he said, made it possible to deprive Jews of their vote to the Jewish Communities, if they are not religious. Dr. Rosmarin had complained that the Government in Jewish affairs leaned too much on the dark elements of the Agudan, instead of on the secular Jewish representatives.
Deputy Minzberg said, on the contrary, that he had nothing but praise for the attitude of the Government towards the Jewish Communities, and he was proud that the Agudah was the first Jewish Party to collaborate with Marshal Pilsudski’s stabilisation regime.
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