In hundreds of small German towns, the Shofar, or ram’s horn, whose blasts have signalized the advent of the Jewish Holy Days for thousands of years, will be heard for the last time next week.
Accounts have reached the Central Jewish Organization here that many Jews all through the country are planning to leave homes where they have resided for generations.
In Altberun, upper Silesia, an exodus of 300 Jews who had remained, hopeful to the end, was reported. The Jewish community of Spriegau, also in Upper Silesia, was forced to sell its synagogue because after eighty years of uninterrupted services, insufficient Jews were left to compose a “minyah.” The Holy Scrolls were given to a neighboring Jewish community.
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