Dr. Sliosberg Here, Seeks Payment of $30,000,000 on Russian Insurance Policies

Anti-Semitism is Growing in Europe, He Reports

Anti-Semitism is growing in Europe, according to Dr. Heinrich Sliosberg, Russian – Jewish leader, who arrived from Europe yesterday on the Berengaria.

“Anti-Semitic tendencies are even noticeable in France,” Dr. Sliosberg stated to the representative of the Jewish Daily Bulletin. “There are here and there unpleasant anti-Jewish incidents in Paris.

“In this connection the forthcoming elections are watched with interest. If the reactionary clerical movement will be victorious in the elections which will take place shortly, anti-Semitism in France will undoubtedly become stronger, and an anti-Semitic movement will be openly conducted. It is the duty of liberal opinion to combat anti-Semitism by intensive propaganda methods.”

Speaking of present Jewish life in Paris, where Dr. Sliosberg now resides, he stated that Paris is at present a center of Jewish transmigration. A great number of Jews migrating from one country to another make Paris their stopping place and as it is difficult for them to find work, their financial condition is often critical. The colony of Russian Jews in Paris is trying to help these Jewish transmigrants. However, the Russian Jews are not in a position to render sufficient aid, he said.

Dr. Sliosberg came to the United States in behalf of a large number of Russian policy-holders of the New York and Equitable Life Insurance Companies. He is to appear today in a New York court as lawyer for the policy holders who are demanding that the American insurance companies pay their claims in American currency on policies paid up in the pre-revolutionary period in Russia. There are about 30.000 such policies, amounting to $30,000,000. Dr. Sliosberg will remain in New York for two months and will stay at the Hotel Brewster.