Over: 2,00 Rabbis in Poland applied to the American consul in Warsaw for visas to proceed to the United States during the past year, according to a dispatch from Warsaw published today in the “Observer.”
The exodus is due, the dispatch says, to the economic crisis now prevailing in Poland, which makes the small provincial communities unable to support the Rabbis. The American consul refused to grant them visas because of the excessive number of applicants, the dispatch further states.
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