Telling a man he is of Jewish descent is an insult, according to a decision rendered by the Budapest court today during the trial of the anti-Semitic railway official M. Kinzler. During a quarrel with Dsider Buday, a member of the Hungarian parliament, and leader of the Awakening Magyars, Kinzler wrote to Buday that he was “of Jewish descent.”
Buday brought charges against Kinzler, charging him with throwing “a shadow on his past.” The court fined Kinzler.
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