The Parliament of the State of Anhalt, the only State in which the Hitlerists and their Nationalist allies obtained a majority of the seats in the elections held at the end of last month, has elected the local Hitlerist leader, Advocate Freyberg, as bead of the State Government.
Thus an antisemitic Hitlerist Government has been established with its seat in the famous town of Dessau, the capital of Anhalt, which is the birthtown of Moses Mendelssohn, the educator and emancipator of German Jewry – he was also known and signed himself as Moses Dessau-to whom it has a monument erected on his centenary, and which was the scene of the Mendelssohn bicentenary celebrations in 1929 (when the then head of the Anhalt Government, Herr Deist, opening the Mendelssohn Exhibition in the Dessau Art Gallery, said that Mendelssohn’s idea of toleration was the basis of the German State).
The Jewish Community of Dessau, which has produced many other Jewish scholars (it was also the town from which the Philippson family, to which the late M. Franz Philippson, President of the Jewish Colonisation Association, Ica, originated) has a long tradition of Jewish culture and activity, and led in the struggle for Jewish emancipation in Germany.
Last January, the City Council of Dessau, with a Hitlerist-Nationalist majority, prohibited Shechita in the city.
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