The new Kaunas Town Council does not include a single Jewish member although Jews form 35 per cent of the general population of the city, the Soviet Lithuanian Jewish press reported today.
The newspapers pointed out that this was not due to anti-Semitism but to the fact that there had not been suitable Jewish candidates. The municipality’s legal adviser, a Jew named Loewenstein, however, has retained his office.
A number of prominent Jewish lawyers have been struck off the register, including the former leader of Jewish war veterans, Jacob Goldberg, the fomer editor of the Yiddishe Stimme, Ruben Rubinstein, and the Poale-Zion leader and member of the Zionist Actions Committee Leib Garfunkel.
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