If the Jewish population here will guarantee at least two Jewish dead every week, we shall be glad to give you a place of land for a Jewish cemetery, the Mayor of a small town in Hessen replied to a Jewish deputation which asked him for permission to open a Jewish cemetery there, the “Welt am Montag” here reports to-day.
There are thirty Jewish families in the town in question, the paper states, and the Mayor refuses to allow them to have a Jewish cemetery there, and the Jewish dead have to be taken to be buried in the cemetery of the next Jewish community, about 12 kilometres away. This week the Jewish population sent another deputation to the Mayor to point out to him that two Jewish inhabitants had died during the week and to ask him, therefore, to reconsider his decision, whereupon he gave them the above reply.
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