Considerable difficulties have arisen over the question as to where Stanislaw Posner, Polish Socialist leader and vice-president of the Senate who died last week, should be buried. Although he was thought to be a Jew he was to be buried in the Evangelistic cemetery because it was said he was converted.
Members of his family deny that he forsook Judaism and therefore are demanding that he be buried in a Jewish cemetery. Socialist leaders maintain that he was not religious and hence since it is not permitted to bury a non-believer in a Jewish cemetery, therefore insist that he be buried in the Evangelistic cemetery. In the meantime a delegation of rabbis have asked the authorities not to permit his burial in a Christian cemetery.
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