This is the first of a series of three striking reports on the Polish Jewish situation by the chief European correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The reports are based on a survey of conditions in Poland recently completed by Mr. Smolar. The second article will appear in tomorrow’s Jewish Daily Bulletin.
The Nara, the anti-Semitic National Radical Party which carried out both small and large pogroms on the Jews, is now forbidden in Poland.
Not forbidden, however, is anti-Semitism.
The roots of anti-Semitism go even deeper. Economic anti-Semitism. Social anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism which is not physical, but upon which all political parties in Poland are united.
A feeling of hatred exists between the Government party and the National Democratic (Endek) party. One would destroy the other if the opportunity presented itself. This bitter feeling is not noticeable, however, when the Jewish question is discussed. On this question both parties have the same feeling: both parties do their best to oust the Jews from their positions and make the Jewish economic situation worse.
The Polish Workers Party, “P.P.S.,” a socialist party with international principles which throughout the year opposes the present regime and government ordinances, is absolutely silent when a law against Jews is proposed. It swings into action only when a factory hires a Jew. Then the party calls a strike of Polish workers and the Jewish worker must leave.
FREE REIN FOR GOVERNMENT
This strange unity which exists among the parties with regard to the Jewish question gives the government a free hand to do as it pleases with the Jews; it makes
This is the first of a series of three striking reports on the Polish Jewish situation by the chief European correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The reports are based on a survey of conditions in Poland recently completed by Mr. Smolar. The second article will appear in tomorrow’s Jewish Daily Bulletin.
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