More than 2,000 men and women attended a farewell reception held here last night in the Arch Street Theatre in honor of Sholom Schwartzbard, Jewish war veteran who killed the Ukrainian pogrom band leader, Simon Petlura, in Paris.
Zelig Tygel, executive secretary of the Federatior of Polish Jews in America, extolled Schwartz-bard’s heroism.
Schwartzbard described the emotions which animated his act and declared that he was motivated by unavoidable impulses.
“I have no regrets,” he said, “for have committed no crime.”
Abraham Hirsch, who presided at the meeting, stressed the significance of Schwartzbard’s act. He also made a plea for the sale of Schwartzbard’s memcirs in Yiddish of which two volumes have already been completed and the third is in preparation.
Cantors Gedalia Scheinfeld and Benomino Graboni and Rosalie Sophian, soprano participated in the musical program which featured the reception.
While in Philadelphia Schwartzbard is guest of his boyhood friend Charles H. Lapidus.
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