Ten Jewish tickets are in the field for the election in the Prussian Jewish communities elections tomorrow. While the provincial Jewish communities in Prussia are united on one ticket in view of the serious situation facing the Jews because of the Hitlerite agitation, in Berlin the Jews have no such unity.
The chief split in Berlin Jewry is between the Liberal and national German Jews on the one hand and the Zionists on the other. “The Eastern Jews disgrace German Jewry,” is what the German-born anti-Zionists claim in their campaign speeches.
Meanwhile the split in the Jewish ranks is being utilized by the Hitlerites who today manifested their interest in the Jewish elections by supplementing Jewish posters with their own. The national German Jews, who are anti-Zionists, posted throughout the city today streamers urging in heavy type “vote German.” To these posters the Hitlerites immediately added their own poster with Swastika signs saying, “don’t elect Jews at all.”
The interest shown by the Hitlerites in the Jewish campaign is proving no obstacle in the heated campaign. The bitterness throughout the campaign between the various Jewish groups became especially noticeable at a Liberal meeting today when Dr. Bernard Weiss, vice-president of the Berlin police, declared, “I had favored the naturalized Eastern Jews, but because they have now formed their own ticket I have changed my mind regarding their naturalization.”
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