(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
The Vilna Chief Rabbinate has issued a statement dissociating itself from the resolution adopted at the joint conference of Jewish doctors and rabbis authorizing the chief dictor of the Vilna Jewish Hospital to provide the University with the corpses of homeless Jews for dissection purposes.
The resolution was adopted as a means of pacifying the Christian medical students of the University who had previously attacked the Jewish students, demanding that the Jewish community should provide corpses for dissection in proportion to the number of Jewish medical students.
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