The Jewish outlook., 1905-07-14
Germany.

Herr Leopold Levy of Frankfort -on-the
Main was recently sentenced to three
months Imprisonment for an assault on
Count Puclller. Although the severity Of the
sentence has caused general SURPRISE it
in great measure warranted by what trans
pred in court. The accused stated that in
November of last year he in the Hotel
de Rome where for the last eighteen years
he had been in the habit of staying during
his periodical visits to Berlin. To his utter
disgust he found from the visitors list that
he was under the same roof with the man
who had for years made it his business to
heap insult on the Jewish community. He
(Herr Levy was hospital attendant in the
Franco-Prussian war. and had treated
wounded Christian and Jewish comrades
with equal care and tenderness, and being
altogether unused in South Germany to
pensions on account of his religion or par
entage, the unexpected proximity of the no.
tOriOuS JeW-bater aroused in him feeling
of burning Indignation. This feeling was
intensified when he was told that Pucller
received large number of post cards, the
writer's of which claimed from him a reward
for "havng kicked in the stomach or hav-
ing otherwise ill-treated Jew In this
frame of mind he encountered the prOsecu-
tor, who, after a short palaver, rushed at
him with heavy loaded stick. The presi-
dent asked whether the accused had not in
the first instance made of a knuckle-
duster. The accused admitted possession
of such a weapon. but denied having used
it. This denial, persisted in notwithstanding
the sworn evidence of several witnesses,
made futile counsel's plea that, considering
the high character the defendant had always
borne, fine would meet the justice of the
case The court declined to regard the de-
fendantS very natural state of excitement
sufficiently mitigating circumstance to
induce it to abstain from prOnOuncing SEN
tence of Imprisonment, as fine would not
be felt as any punishment at all.
The first cantOr'S conference in Germany
was held in Berlin on June 18th and 18th.
The opening address delivered by Can
tor SchOenberger of POtSdam. Cantor RutZ-
Daum Of Wiesbaden elected to the chair.
.JustiZrath TimendOrfer of Berlin welcomed
the delegates to Berlin. A paper the
ganization of a cantOrs union was read by
Cantor Kalischer of Berlin. resolution
expressing the purpose Of the conference in
troduced by Cantor Fabsch of GOettingen,
was carried. The conference purposes to
effect union Of the cantors in Germany
and it will strive for the organization Of a
teachers union. Cantor DubOwsky read Il
paper 1.-The Preservation Of Relics" after
the committee constitution had been ap-
pointed. On the second day a school for
cantOrs the subject under discussion.
It said that such a school may be found
attached to the teachers seminary, but Fro
norman of Berlin argued in favor of a spe-
cial school, ZegerOth of POsen mentioned
the SO-called cantOrs school at POSen. The
graduates of this school, he said, not
fitted for their work. and after they have
served a few years in the provinces, they
find it impossible to obtain positions else
where Cantor Dubowsky argued against
special school, saying that the education of
luxus cantors not the business of can
tors union The majority of the German
communities needed men who were cantors,
schochtim and religious teachers paper