No less than 28 separate lists of candidates contesting the elections which take place at the end of next month for the fifty seats on the Board of the Warsaw Jewish Community were registered to-day, it being the last date for registering lists. Fears had been expressed that there might be as many as fifteen lists registered (vide “Najer Hajnt” quoted in the J.T.A. Bulletin of the 25th. inst.) and the hopeless disunity prevailing among the Jews of Warsaw is graphically illustrated by the fact that this number has been almost doubled.
The ten leading lists in order of precedence are as follows: Assimilationists, headed by Advocate Julius Kohn and M. Maurycy Endelmann, President of the Warsaw Lodge of the B’nai B’rith and one of the non-Zionist representatives of Polish Jewry on the Jewish Agency; the Left Poale Zion, headed by Messrs. Zerubavel and Lew (both of whom the Agudah tried unsuccessfully to have removed from membership of the Jewish Community on the ground that they had publicly declared that they are Konfessionslos); the Right Poale Zion, headed by Engineer Reis and M. Joseph Ritow; the Zionists, with the Et Livnoth. headed by M. Moses Feldstein, Vice-President of the retiring Board of the Jewish Community, and Dr. Joshua Gottlieb, President of the Jewish Journalists’ Association, the Al Hamishmar by Messrs. Ellenberg and Schipper, and the Revisionists by Dr. Dralitscher and Dr. Zinemman; the Agudists, headed by M. Itsche Mayer Levin, the Gerer Rebbe’s son-in-law, and Senator Osher Mendelson; the Democratic Election group, headed by Dr. Samuel Goldflam, another of the non-Zionist representatives of Polish Jewry on the Jewish Agency, Judge Jacob Himmelfarb and ex-Senator Trusker, President of the Federation of Jewish Traders; the Mizrachists, headed by ex-Deputy Farbstein, the former President of the Warsaw Jewish Community, and Rabbi Nissenbaum; the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organisations; the pro-Government group, and the Kozenitz Hassidim. In addition, there are lists put up by the Labour Agudist Organisation, Poale Agudah, the Jewish small traders, house-holders and other groups.
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