Presidents of synagogues and temples will gather tonight at the Brooklyn Jewish Center, 667 Eastern Parkway, to consider problems facing the borough’s Jewish community, according to an announcement from Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, president of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities. The meeting has been endorsed by Martin Wechsler, president of the Brooklyn Council of the United Synagogues of America, who is also president of the Flatbush Jewish Center, and by William Weiss, national president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.
Streicher in Nuremberg last Monday, “would be to recognize them as a part of the German people. They are guests, nothing more, in the Third Reich, guests whom we tolerate only as long as they obey our wishes and laws. Before long the status of the Jew in the nation will be clearly and unequivocally defined.”
Jews who were naturalized since 1918 are already being deprived of citizenship. For the present the German authorities are content to create the impression that only the Ostjude (Eastern Jew) has incurred denaturalization. It is not generally known, however, that there are thousands of Jews in the Reich who, though born on German soil, were not eligible for citizenship until 1918, that many thousands among those who are being expatriated by the Hitler government were born and bred in Germany. The concept “German Jew” will soon cease to exist in the Reich….
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