The annual convention of the Federation of Zionists of Germany opened here yesterday with the participation of 150 delegates and a large number of guests.
Kurt Blumenfeld, president of the Federation, who opened the sessions, described the spread of Nationalism in Germany and its effect on the position of the Jews in the country.
“We do not demand national autonomy,” Dr. Blumenfeld declared, “but individual and collective equality rights, particularly the right of Jews to conduct their own schools.”
Addresses were also delivered by M.
M. Ussishkin, president of the Jewish National Fund and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Zionist leader of Germany.
Mr. Ussishkin appealed to orthodox Jewry to join a united Palestine front. He called for the rejection of Fascism on the one hand and defeatism on the other.
Palestine, he said, must not become the object of a fight between the Jews of Palestine and the Arabs of Palestine. It must rather become a matter requiring settlement between 16,000,000 Jews the world over and the 40,000,000 Arabs in the Near East.
Dr. Goldmann described the position of the Jews in many sections of the world.
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