[The purpose of the Digest is informative: Preference is given to papers not generally accessible to our readers. Quotation does indicate approval–Editor.]
An appeal to the Jewish working masses of the world to organize for action against the anti-Zionist persecutions conducted in Russia by the Yevsektzia (Jewish section of the Communist party), is contained in “Erd un Arbet” (“Land and Labor”), of Kishinev, organ of the Hitachduth, Socialist-Zionist party of Roumania.
“We have seen,” writes the paper “that the workingmen of foreign countries intervened in behalf of the Socialist Revolutionists in Russian and the result was an abatement of the wild persecutions against them. Why then do we Jews remain silent about our brothers? The workers of the orld must be informed regarding the persecutions in Russia against the Socialist-Zionists, the Poale Zion and Hitachduth. We must heed the call of our Jewish comrades who are suffering for an ideal. We must organize at once and take energetic measures to stop the persecutions.”
WANTS A BODY REPRESENTATIVE OF WORLD JEWRY
The recent decision of the American Jewish Congress to take the initiative in reorganizing the Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris, which has fallen into dessuetude since its fruitful activities during the Versailles Peace Conference, is lauded by the “Lodzer Tageblatt,” Yiddish daily of Lodz, Poland, but the paper feels that what the Jews need is a body that would be representative of world Jewry rather than of a number of Jewish organizations.
“So we are going to have again a committee of certain organizations, not a real representation of the entire Jewish people,” the “Tageblatt” observes, adding, however: “At any rate the initiative of the American Jewish Congress is to be welcomed, for the present status cannot be permitted to continue. Let the question come up for discussion, let Jewish public opinion become once more interested in it, and perhaps eventually there will arise not a Committee of Jewish Delegations but an organization of the representatives of the people of Israel.”
COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR
Sir:
All around the world, wherever I went, I found my brethren, and your Bulletin will keep me in touch with the lands I have visited.
Your work in this field is unique and remarkable, and you deserve the utmost encouragement “strength to strength” in the heart of world Jewry.
DR. EDWARD N. CALISCH.
On Board the Steamer “Homeric,” April 23, 1926.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
