Jewish Press in Poland Dissatefied with Board of Deputies for Dealing with Jewish Situation in Polan

The Jewish papers in Poland have been giving a good deal of attention to the discussion on the Jewish position in Poland, which took place at the last meeting of the Jewish Board of Deputies in London (on May 22nd.).

In the “Moment”, Mr. Hillel Zeitlin, the famous publicist, says that it is true that the Jews cannot expect anything better, and may perhaps get something a great deal worse if there is any other Government in Poland than the present, but at the same time, it is impossible, however, to say, as the Secretary of the Agudath Isnael, Mr. H. A. Goodman, argued, that the Polish Government is doing all it can to alleviate the position of the Jews.

The Board of Deputies was told, Mr. Zeitlin proceeds, that the Sunday Closing Law may be amended and that State rights have been given to Hebrew High Schools. The fact is, he says, that the question of amending the Sunday Observance Law has not moved forward by one inch, and the fact that two Hebrew High Schools have obtained Government rights benefits only a very small number of Jews, while the mass of the Jewish population expect facilities which will be to the advantage of them all.

The Bundist “Volkscajtung” publishes two leading articles criticising the Board of Deputies for the attitude expressed at the debate on the position in Poland.

“Unser Leben”, in Bialystock, publishes an editorial complaining that the intervention of the Board of Deputies in Jewish affairs in Poland is not wanted by either side. Polish Jews are politically mature, it claims, and are ### to defend their own cause. Even when Mr. Lucien Wolf was still alive, he was an anachronism, and as for the Polish Government, it wants neither the criticism nor the compliments of the Board of Deputies.