The severe economic crisis and growth of antisemitism in Germany has sent out rays into Switzerland, Herr Sally Br#unschweig, the President of the Jewish Community of Zurich, said in his address to the annual meeting of the Zurich Jewish Community this week. There have been expressions of surprise, he went on, that the authorities have not stood out against this agitation, but the commonsense of the Swiss people is sufficient guarantee that the Hitlerist movement will find no soil in Switzerland. In any case, it is not for individuals to intervene with the authorities, but they should submit whatever facts or material they possess to the Community.
The Zurich Jewish Community had on March 29th. completed 70 years of its existence, the President said. It had been founded by ten men. The tolerant ideas of the time had led to the emancipation of the Jews of Switzerland, and the Community had grown rapidly in numbers, and was to-day the largest Jewish community in Switzerland.
We are all bound to Switzerland by ties of affection, the President said, and we are always ready to do our duty to our country with joy. Switzerland is the synthesis of a true community of peoples. In this country, we Jews can carry out all our duties as citizens without any reflection upon our ties with Judaism, even outside the boundaries of this country.
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