There has been a rise in anti-Semitic manifestations in some Southern communities in connection with the increase in strife over race relations in the South, the New York Times reported today.
The report said that Rabbi William B. Silverman, of Nashville–where the Jewish Community Center was bombed in 1958–linked the increase of anti-Semitism directly to opponents of desegregation. The rabbi is also reported as stating that the amount of anti-Semitic literature, largely from sources outside Nashville, now circulating in the city, is higher than he has ever before seen it.
In this connection, the Times reports that those who bombed the Jewish Center in Nashville were never apprehended. The Times reports also that, when a swastika was recently painted on a synagogue in Nashville, the police attributed the act to a prank by youngsters. When the police later caught the perpetrator, he was found to be a 22-year-old member of a good family. He was fined two dollars, and given a 30-day work-house sentence, which he has not yet served.
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