A meeting to protest the recurrent anti-Jewish attacks in Poland has been arranged for January 8th at the Manhattan Lyceum by a Committee calling itself the United Committee for Struggle Against Pogroms in Poland.
Thirty Jewish professors, writers and other intellectuals have joined in the call for the meeting and have issued a public appeal to New York Jewry to unite in a vigorous public protest against the policies of the Polish government affecting Jewish and other national minorities in Poland.
The recent attacks on Jewish students in Poland are characterized as the “culmination of the constant oppression of national minorities in Poland” by “rulers seeking a scapegoat for their own crimes.”
“It is regrettable that the reply of American Jewry to this brutal attack has been weak and ineffective,” says the appeal. “United, vigorous and frank action is indispensible if anything is to be done to help prevent repetitions of these attacks.”
The appeal is signed by the following: Louis Berg, Prof. Franz Boas, Moe Bragin, Reuben Brainin, Miss Anita Brenner, Elliot E. Cohen, Lester Cohen, Edward Dahlberg, Miss Babette Deutsch, Clifton Fadiman, Waldo Frank, Michael Gold, Elsie Gluck, Peretz Hirshbein, Prof. Sidney Hook, Jerome Klein, Melvin P. Levy, Louis Lozowick, Felix Morrow, Samuel Ornitz, Rabbi Henry Rosenthal, Dr. Meyer Schapiro, Dr. Morris U. Schappes, Isidor Schneider, Edwin Seaver, Prof. Henry Slonimsky, Herbert Solow, Dr. Bernhard J. Stern, Lionel Trilling. Dr. Avrahom Yarmolinsky and William Zorach.
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