The Jewish Community of Vienna was urged to make representations to the government to secure the protection of the authorities to counteract the Nazi boycott agitation.
The agitation of the Nazis has had serious repercussions for the Jews and Jewish merchants and artisans have sent delegations to the Jewish Community, pleading for intervention in their behalf.
Non-Jewish customers entering shops now make it the custom to ask whether they are owned by Jews. When the answer is in the affirmative, they promptly leave, the Kehillah was informed. As a result, Jewish business has been completely ruined.
Jewish merchants and artisans urge the Kehillah to issue an appeal to the Jewish population to purchase from Jews only, in order to counteract the Nazi boycott agitation.
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