Publication of the 1936 municipal budget today without provision for Jewish cultural and social institutions created consternation in the Jewish community.
Other cities are also drawing up budgets ignoring the needs of Jewish communities, it was reported here today. Previously, the Lithuanian Jews received large subsidies.
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