The less than one hundred Jews remaining in the Ruhr cities of Duisburg and Muelheim, heretofore organized in two separate communities, resolved in simultaneous membership meetings to abandon the long-standing independence of their congregations and to establish a single community, with its seat in Muelheim.
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