Dr. Joseph Bloch, Vienna rabbi who some years ago was a member of the Austrian Parliament is dead.
Dr. Bloch was particularly well known for the prominent part he played in exposing the ritual blood charges in the celebrated Hilsner case. He was publisher and editor of the Austrian “Wochenschift” Dr. Bloch visited the United States several years ago. He was born in Galicia in 1850.
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