The Independent Order Brith Abraham, the largest Jewish fraternal order in the United States, with a membership of 100,000, issued a call to its membership yesterday, to organize for participation in the protest march against anti-Jewish persecutions in Germany, to be held on May 10, in New York City, under the auspices of the American Jewish Congress.
The call to participate, signed by Isidore Apfel, Grandmaster and Max L. Hollander, secretary, emphasized that American Jews must contest with all their strength the degradation of German Jewry which is consistently being carried out by the Hitler Government.
May 10 has been chosen for the protest demonstration to coincide with the public auto-da-fe of all books by Jewish authors and Jewish in theme to be held in Germany at the order of the Hitlerites.
Similar instructions for participation were issued to their respective organizations by the Federation of Polish Jews, in a call signed by Benjamin Winter, president; Z. Tygel, secretary; the Order Sons of Zion, Isaac Allen, president; L. Rimsky, secretary; and the United Roumanian Jews, A. D. Braham president Leo Wolfson, honorary president; Herman Speier, secretary.
The action on the part of these organizations will be followed by numerous other Jewish fraternal orders and Landsmanschaften, Mr. Apfel, who is chairman of the Committee on Orders and Federations in charge of the protest demonstration, announced.
Six hundred Jewish organizations, whose membership totals millions, will send delegates to the protest march, in accordance with a pledge given by their representatives at a meeting last week where the demonstration was unanimously decided upon.
The labor groups here will be represented in a solid group, and forty thousand of their members will march in line, it is forecast.
Among the various groups to be represented is the theatrical profession. Harry Hershfield, prominent columnist and cartoonist was named chairman of the Committee on the Theatrical Profession, yesterday.
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