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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
The Pogroms in Vienna
BY DR. LOBEL TAUBES.
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various student organizations was to
be arranged. Herr Stricker also in-
terceded with the government and the
latter promised to take serious meas-
ures if necessary to re-establish peace
and order in the academic life of the
city. In the sante afternoon the head
of the University issued a declaration
that he was closing the University
for two days.
The organization of Jewish students
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drive all the Jewish professors and
students from the University. After
their first successful raid, the student
mob went to the Institute of Anatomy
and demonstrated against the under-
secretary, Dr. Tandler, with the cries: then sent a statement to its members
"Down with Tandler, the Jew!" They that since the University was to be
BUICK-1917—Light Six.
also tried to raid the coffee house officially closed, the Jewish students
"Adler," which is visited only by should patiently await the further de- In fine shape, 6 good tires—
Jews, but they were stopped by the cisions of the officials. None of the $1,000 cash. Earl L Bezenah,
police. Every Jew or Gentile of Jew- Jewish students appeared upon the
ish appearance, whose misfortune it campus the following day, much to 418 Sixth St. Glendale 5020.
was to come into their path, was the disappointment of the German-
ROOM TO RENT—A nice room for
For many months a certain per- abused and beaten.
nationals who gathered in the street
sonality, under the name Orel, has
one or two gentlemen. Conveient
But that was only the beginning.
been carrying on fearful pogrom Next day all the German students of near the University to attack them.
to three ,,treat car lines. Very rea-
But
not
finding
any
Jews
to
batter,
propaganda in his filthy journal, "Der the University and the high schools
amiable. 124 E. Paimr. Northway
Folks-Strum." A number of issues of gathered and seized the lecture halls the young brutes soon found another
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this yellow publication are full of from which they drove the Jewish outlet for their animal spirits by fall-
poison and gall against Jews and students, asking every newcomer for ing upon the group of international
TO RENT--Two rooms, one for coup-
Judaism. The same inciting propa- the baptismal certificate after the Socialist students who were in the
le desiring light house keeping and
ganda he spreads wherever he goes, fashion of the Budapest students. neighborhood. As on the previous
one for one or two gentlemen. Ten
at meetings or mere social functions, Their attempts to disrupt Professor day, they attacked every passer-by
minutes from downtown. Apply Mrs.
calling all to massacre the Jews, and Tandler s lecture failed because of the who looked Jewish.
On the next evening about three
Margolis, 825 Brush St.
particularly the refugees. Toward the defense put up by the Jewish-national
latter not even the attitude of the students. A very stubborn, heroic hundred .of them went to the Steftis-
more liberal elements of the popula- tight, stiffened by their pride in a be- chen 'firkenschan l'ark, where there
Jewish residents of South Philadel
tion is any too favorable. It is, there- loved teacher of their own blood, was are usually to be found hundreds of phia have combined with the Cath-
fore, quite easy to rouse the populace put up by the Jewish students visitors in the evening and placed olics in the effort to raise $500,000
against all Jews in general. The against the German nationals. Blood groups of twenty and thirty at each for the St. Agnes Hospital.
great "successes" of the reactionaries flowed freely on both sides. In the entrance to keep out all Jews. Any
In neighboring Hungary have given general confusion the Germans were one who looked Jewish to them was
added encouragement to their Aus- not always able to distinguish be- roughly thrown out of the public
trian compatriots to introduce the MCC II the Jews and other nationali- park with the usual, "Out with the
Jewish dogs!" harked after hint.
same "system" in Vienna.
ties. Two Italian students were
Characteristic of the whole pro- 1
After an anti-Semitic meeting of dreadfully belabored, and a Czecho-
"citizens" in the public hall of the city slovakian girl student was beaten un- cedure is the fact that only the
council in which German national stu- til the blood streamed from her. For- hymns of the old regime like the
dents of both sexes took part, and tunately, a German army lieutenant German "The Watch on the Rhine"
during which an appeal was made to passed by on his horse, saved her and Austrian Kaiser songs are heard
all elements of the German people from the "cultured" hoodlums and from the students. Apparently, while
to unite against the common enemy, brought her to the central bureau of ostentatiously it is the Jew who is
the Jews, who, it was claimed, com- the Joint Distribution Committee, being kicked, the blows are meant to
mitted many ritual murders during where the assemblyman Stricker hap- hit finally the present republican gov-
the Red revolutions in Russia, Ger- pened to be at the time. Putting the ernment• The present seemingly un-
many and Hungary, after thunderous wounded girl under his care, the office important student outbreaks thay be
cheer for Kapp, Horthy, and the asked him to do his utmost to pre- but the harbingers of a reactionary
present Hungarian Government, a vent the recurrence of such shame- wave to re-establish the monarchy.
horde of these students swooped less, barbarous revelry.
Assemblyman Stricker in the Na-
down upon the "Kitchen for Jewish
Nor was the forcible expulsion of tional Assembly and Dr. Pleischkes
Students" to exhibit their heroism. the Jewish students limited to the in the City Council took vigorous
Only some twenty persons were lecture halls. Into the buffet of the stands against these outrages and
found there and these were brutally University, where is located the break- showed that they may bring infinite
beaten and driven out. Then the fast room of the English Society of harm to the prestige of Austria and
marauders, unhampered by anyone Friends, an institution established by especially of Vienna. So far only
and encouraged by the mob outside, the British Mission for the benefit of promises have been made. Will they
smashed all the furniture, broke the all students regardless of nationality be kept? The Jew is ever optimistic,
windows, and destroyed all the cook- or religion, a whole horde of 'he and under the most trying circum-
ing utensils. The damage amounted superpatriots rushed in, and in spite stances never forgets his "Even this
to over a hundred thousand kronen, of the protests of the English admin- for the best."
and the kitchen which fed not only istrators forced all the Jewish stu-
Jewish but also Czechian. Polish, dents, both men and women, from
Ukrainian, and German destitute stu- the place.
BAR YIDDISH IN GALICIA.
dents, had to be closed temporarily.
A conference of the Jewish stu-
Representatives of the Joint Distribu- dents was immediately called to adopt
tion Committee which founded and ways and means of ending these
LEMBERG—From many cities and
ran the kitchen immediately came atrocities, which sent a deputation to towns in Galicia it is reported that
upon the scene to take photographs convey their memorandum to the city the use of Yiddish is prohibited by
of the wreckage. Now the Joint Dis- council and city executives. These the local authorities. All Yiddish
tribution Committee through the promised that under no circumstances signs must be removed from Jewish
American Mission is demanding a would they allow the excesses of places of business. In Kolomea the
hundred thousand krdnen indemnity Budapest University to he introduced local merchants' association printed
front the Austrian Government.
in Vienna. The University was to be a Yiddish placard announcing the
That, so to speak, was the first closed until ivestigations were to be death of a member. For this offense
`heroic" accomplishment of the Ger- made, and for which purpose a con- both the printer and the organiza-
man-nationals. It served as a signal ference of all superintendents of high tion were heavily fined by the local
for others, among which was one to schools and of representatives of the administration.
On the very day that the Jewish
population of Vienna received the
joyous news from London that the
San Remo Conference decided to ac-
cept the Balfour Declaration as in-
ternational policy, the Jew-hating
ruffians of the city began to give ex-
pression to pogrom theories in terms
of practical deeds. April 26th was
to be a holiday for the Jews, but it
was transformed into a day of grave
concern and of fear for the future.
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