(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jewish traders in Russia, large and small, constitute only fifteen per cent of the total number of traders in the country, states the ‘Krasnaya Gazeta” in a special issue devoted to the fight against anti-Semitism.
Efforts are being made, the paper states, to attribute all troubles in Russia to the Jews, who are blamed for the unemployment, the housing shortage, and other ills. The anti-Semites are spreading the idea that the Jews are all Nepmen.
It is true, the paper continues, that there are few Jewish workers, but the reason is that the Jews were previously not admitted to the factories and were compelled to become traders in order to earn a livelihood. Now, however, there are already 150,000 Jewish workers and 200,000 Jewish employees, including engineers. Several trade unions, especially in the Ukraine, have a majority of Jewish members. Two hundred thousand Jewish colonists are working the land just like the Russian and Ukrainian peasants.
Anti-Semitism is spreading among the children in the elementary schools states the “Krasnoye Znamia” of Leningrad.
Under the slogan “Kill the Jews, Save Soviet Russia,” the children in the schools of Toganrag are being incited against their Jewish schoolfellows. In the German school in the district no Jews are allowed. In other schools the pupils obliterated the word “Evrei” (Israelite) from all notices, substituting the insulting term, “Ahid.”
The paper declares that the teachers make no effort to combat the growing anti-Semitism.
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