inary and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America to Columbia University. Professor Henry Sloane Cossin, president of the Union Theological Seminary, has promised to deliver an address and invitations have been issued to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and Dr. Cyrus Adler also to address the demonstration as well as to Dr. Robinson, president of City College.
The demonstration will then proceed to the Polish Consulate where a resolution of protest will be presented addressed to the Polish Ambassador in the United States, Tytus Filipowicz.
The group also plans to address a resolution to the Pope, who has often referred to Poland as the most Catholic country in the world, to join in the protest against the recurrent excesses.
Dr. Kraus, the leader of the protest demonstration, is a native of Cracow, Poland, and a former lieutenant in the Polish Army. He was the organizer of a Jewish self-defense corps during the anti-Semitic excesses in Poland during the period of 1918-1920, for which he was thrown into prison.
Dr. Kraus has been in this country for five years. For two years he studied at Oxford University on a fellowship created for him by the late Julius Rosenwald of Chicago.
Posters in the thousands calling upon the Jews to protest against the riots in Poland have been published by the student Committee, all the expenses of which are being defrayed personally by Dr. Kraus. The posters are distributed on the campus of City College, the dormitories of Columbia University and the buildings of Union Theological Seminary.
Dr. Kraus explained that the Jewish intellectual is the worst persecuted group in the world and that the time has come for the organization of an educational front. When the immediacy of the protest has passed, a permanent intellectual organization as the outgrowth of the Jewish Student Defense Executive is projected.
A fund will be established, moreover, to bring a number of the more seriously injured students in the riots in Poland to the United States for a year’s study, Dr. Kraus stated.
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