Word: bydgoszcz
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Affluent indeed would be a community where out of 20,000 Jews not one was poor. When last fortnight the municipal council of the little Polish town of Bydgoszcz claimed such prosperity, rejected a $100,000 legacy left to the town's poor jews because there were no poor Jews, the potent, ubiquitous Jewish telegraphic agency sent a correspondent, investigated...
With grave simplicity and courtesy the Municipal Council of the little Polish town of Bydgoszcz gathered last week in their still, solemn council room. On a table was a check for $100,000 left "to the poor Jews of Bydgoszcz," by one Mrs. Leonard Cohen, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. With gravity the Council deliberated, then ordered that a polite note be penned to the executors of the will refusing the money, stating that "there are no poor Jews in Bydgoszcz...