Attacks by National Radical anti-Semites against Jews are increasing in number and virulence.
Isaak Litwak, youthful Jewish athlete and member of the Stern athletic association, was severely injured when members of the Makkabi and Stern clubs were returning from a soccer game. Nara hooligans ambushed them and a bloody clash took place.
In the Warsaw suburb, Praga, vendors of the anti-Semitic paper Sztafeta, viciously attacked Jewish pedestrians for “amusement” as they later explained. The Jews were vigorously defended by Polish Socialists whose club rooms were nearby. Arrests were made by the police after the bitter fighting was over.
Jewish porters in the same suburbs repulsed a Nara attack, but police arriving on the scene after the clash arrested a number of the Jews.
The Nara campaign is featured in the anti-Semitic Sztafeta under a slogan, “Jews Cannot Be Polish Citizens”.
Rabbi Mendele Alter, president of the Polish Rabbinical Union, rabbi of Pabiance and brother of the noted Garer Rebbe, Chassidic rabbi, was badly beaten by Nara hooligans. He was hit over the head with a “knuckle duster.”
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