Ex-Deputy Dr. Wygodski, the President of the Vilna Jewish Community, writing in the Vilna “Zeit” of the judgment handed down by the court in finding the Jewish student Wulfin guilty of taking part in the November disturbances and sentencing him to two years’ imprisonment, says:
It is impossible to believe that the motives for this judgment constitute a political document of a certain colouring imported from abroad. We must consider them as based on the desire to justify the verdict. The first thing we have to say about this unheard of accusation made against Jews, in a judgment delivered by a High Court, is that there is no evidence for it. Where is the evidence? We have only an assertion by the learned judges that the Polish Jews feel such a terrible enmity towards Poles and Christians generally, because Jews suffered persecution under the Inquisition in Spain. That is only an assertion. Assertions are not facts, and are not evidence.
The facts are, and historic records prove them to be facts, Dr. Wydgoski says, that at all difficult times Jews stood on the Polish side, always supporting the Polish aspirations.
In the name of the Vilna Jews, Dr. Wygodski concludes, I protest vehemently against the accusation made in the judgment of the court that Jews are enemies to Poles, and I declare that this accusation is entirely false.
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