Declaring that he rejects absolutely the Nazi blood theory, Dr. Lugmayer, head of the educational department of Vienna, came out today with a project that a completely autonomous Jewish school system be created in Austria.
“This system should be independently administered by the Jews, just as all purely cultural matters affecting Judaism should be conducted by the Jews themselves,” Dr. Lugmayer urges.
In a ### the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Dr. Lugmayer explains that the reason he asks for an independent Jewish school system is not because he fears that Jewish children exercise an unfavorable influence on non-Jewish children.
“My many years of experience as professor at the Vienna High School, with a large Jewish body of students, are utterly at variance with this idea, but I consider that the Jews have a right to their own autonomous school system,” the head of the educational department said.
The project provides that the autonomous Jewish school system begin with the elementary school and continue up to the university. “If a Jewish university cannot be created in each State, it can be established in one State to serve all of Central Europe,” the Lugmayer plan states.
Touching upon the question of citizenship rights of Jews; the Aus-
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