The greatest single vacuum in Bavaria is the fact that the Jewish population, as Southern Germany knew it, no longer exists, Dr. George N. Shuster, retiring United States Commissioner for Bavaria, disclosed yesterday in Munich, the New York Times reports today.
Dr. Shuster added that he knew many Germans who bemoaned that situation. “Yet there is a frightful ignorance of the Jewish tradition, ” he continued. “I don’t think you have what one might call in Germany ‘over anti-Semitism’ but you certainly have a misconception of the Jewish role in Europe. There is a definite lack of social contact between Jews and non-Jews.”
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