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Text of “jew Laws” in Thuringian Parliament

June 28, 1926
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

The text of the six “Jew laws” introduced into the Thuringian Diet by the National Socialist Party, under the leadership of Dr. Arthur Dinter, states:

(1) Law not to allow Jews to be teachers at State and municipal schools and at the State University. Paragraph 1. Jews are not to be permitted to act as teachers at State and municipal schools nor as professors or lecturers at the State University. Paragraph 2. A Jew for the purposes of this law is any person who in the generation of his grandparents on either side has any blood relations who professed the Masaic faith, irrespective of whether they are today baptized or not.

(2) Law not to allow Jewish students of either sex at State and municipal Institutions. Paragraph 1. Attendance at State and municipal schools is within the Free State of Thuringia prohibited to children of Jewish parents. Paragraphs 2 and 3 read as in Law 1.

(3) Law not to allow Jews to be doctors in State and municipal Institutions or at State and municipal Sick Funds. Paragraph 1. Jews must not be appointed within the State of Thuringia as doctors at State and municipal Institutions nor as doctors at State and municipal Sick Funds within the Free State. Paragraphs 2 and 3 read as in Law 1.

(4) Law not to allow Jews to be judges and notaries. Paragraph 1. Jews are not to be permitted to be judges and notaries in the Free State of Thuringia. Paragraphs 2 and 3 read as in Law 1.

(5) Law for the prohibition of Jewish cattle and corn dealing. Paragraph 1. Jews. are not allowed to engage in cattle and corn dealing in the Free State of Thuringia. Paragraphs 2 and 3 read as in Law 1.

(6) Law for the prohibition of Shechita. Paragraph 1. Slaughtering without preliminary stunning of the animal is prohibited in the Free State of Thuringia and will be punishable according to Paragraph 360. Clause 13 of the penal code. Paragraphs 2 and 3 read as in Law 1.

The “Voelkische Beobachter” in publishing the text of the proposed laws appeals “to all national minded Germans to send data bearing on these laws based on practical experience, and also statistical date concerning non-Thuringian German countries, to the chairman of the National Socialist Faction in the Thuringian Diet, Dr. Arthur Dinter, at Weimar.”

Members of the East Flatbush Jewish Center. Brooklyn, N. Y., gave a dinner last week? celebration of the burning of the main mortgage and the assistance rendered by the Sisterhood of the Center in presenting a large building lot for the new Jewish Center. Three hundred persons attended the gathering.

The new building will contain an auditorium, gymnasium, swimming pool. social rooms, class rooms. The cost of the structure is expected to be $250,000 and construction is to commence in September. It will be a three-story white stone building of a Moorish type.

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