(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
“Next year in Bureya,” a paraphrase of the traditional Jewish prayer, “Next year in Jerusalem.” is becoming the slogan of the pioneer groups which are leaving the Russian towns and villages in small numbers for the far off “land of promise” in Bureya, Siberia, where extensive Jewish colonization work is to be inaugurated under the auspices of the Ozet, society for settling Jews on the land, in cooperation with the government department.
In several towns the farewell meetings to the Bureya migrants were held under the slogan: “L’shono Ha’booh B’Birzhan” (Next year in Bureya). Many groups of the Left Poale Zion party, formerly a labor party with Zionistic tendencies, have changed their mane to Poale Birzhan.
A group of 162, including 149 from White Russia, left Moscow yesterday for Bureya.
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