Four hundred delegates to the annual convention of the Federation of Polish Jews in America paid high tribute to Senators Robinson, Copeland, Metcalf, Wagner, Hatfield, and Walsh for the latter’s attack against Nazi anti-Semitism on the floor of the Senate Saturday.
Hitler’s attitude toward German Jewry was roundly denounced by speakers at the Sunday conference; and in a rising vote delegates unanimously condemned the National Socialist policies toward Jews in Germany. Speakers viewed the possibilities of failure of the plans of the World Economic Conference through Germany’s continued discrimination against Jews.
Bernard S. Deutsch, president of the American Jewish Congress at the banquet session, cited worldwide economic boycotts of German goods, slump of German securities on the market, and the growing distrust of foreign nations as products of Hitler’s anti-Semitic policies.
Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, vice-president of the Federation of Polish Jews, interpreted the activities of the Nazi administration as a preliminary measure to another war, “the like of which the world has never seen.”
POINTS TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING
Dr. Everett R. Clinchy of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, who has recently returned from Poland, expressed the belief that all conflict between Polish Christians and Polish Jews may not disappear, but he demanded that all hostility and cruelty be outmoded.
Z. Tygel, executive director of the Federation of Polish Jews, reviewed the trend of the world toward consideration of Jewish problems, and he cited the instance of Dr. Clinchy’s interest in Polish Jews and that of the League in the plight of Jews in Upper Silesia as indications that the world is at last becoming conscious of the need of investigating and acting upon religious discrimination.
Officers of the Federation were elected at the final meeting last night. Benjamin Winter was reelected president. George I. Fox, Jacob Brown, Herman B. Oberman, Sol Rosenfeld and Benjamin J. Weinberg, were named vice-presidents; M. G. Domash, treasurer; David Traubman, recording secretary. Zelig Tygel was reelected executive director of the organization.
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