(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Claiming that he can prove he never was a Christian, Stanislaw Tillinger, alias Judah Elfenbein, who had posed as a rabbi in New York and was unmasked as a missionary in March 1923, has asked rehabilitation by the Austrian Zionist Executive, in order, he stated, that he may return to America and assume a rabbinical position.
Witnesses called by the Executive, declared that they recognize Tillinger as a teacher of the Roman Catholic religion in German schools in Lemberg. Tillinger is to be confronted with the witnesses.
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