Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1918 — Jews in Kaiserland Unite for Protection of Rights [ARTICLE]

Jews in Kaiserland Unite for Protection of Rights

German newspapers recently received iba ifittidb* ropws mus? Amalgamation of all the Jewlsh associations of the empire for the protection of the “legal rights of German Jews.” The program adopted Is described as their “Irreducible minimum.’* ’ The president is ilames Simbn, a Berlin merchant prince 7 contemptuously known in Junker circles as the “Court Jew” because of the kaiser’s professed personal friendship for him. The main demands of the new organization, as set forth lh the Vossische Zeltuxig. are “legal and genuine” equality of rights and opportunities' with other citizens “in all states,” including the unrestricted right of emigration info' the Turkish empire, especially Palestine. Similar centralization of Jewish associations. It is stated; is Imminent In Austria-Hungary, Turkey add Bulgaria. vlMli