(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Professor Simon Dubnow, Russian Jewish historian, who was one of the leaders at the recent Jewish conference on Jewish Rights, praised the results of this conference, asserting that it has demonstrated “the national unity of the Jewish people all over the world.”
In an interview with the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on his return from Zurich, Dr. Dubnow criticized the opponents of the conference.
“The conference,” he said, “was an indirect protest against the false principle dominant in Western Europe for the last 120 years, since the Paris Sanhedrin of 1807, that the Jews of the various countries are parts of the peoples among whom they live. In Zurich, the Jewish representatives were there as citizens of
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