Jewish leaders today hailed Senator Jacob Niemirower, chief rabbi of Bucharest, for his spirited defense of the Jews and the Talmud in reply to anti-Semitic attacks in the Senate.
During a discussion Saturday night of King Carol’s opening address, Prof. Alexander Cuza, head of the anti-Semitic National Christians, interpreted the Talmud and assailed the Jewish religion as immoral.
He accused the Jews of practicing ritual murder and white slavery. Paying tribute to Chancellor Hitler, Prof. Cuza said he had advocated the Nazi racial views before Hitler was born.
As Senator Niemirower rose to reply, Cuza and his followers left the hall.
Rabbi Niemirower declared that Cuza was eighty while the Jewish religion was thousands of years old. Charging Cuza with falsely quoting the Talmud, he said there had been many false and malicious interpretations of the ancient commentary.
Describing “persecution” of the Jewish religion in Russia, he denied the identity of Jewry with Bolshevism and concluded with a declaration of Jewish loyalty, declaring the Jewish population was faithful to “king and fatherland” and ready to make any sacrifice to protect them.
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