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3,000,000 Armenians Desire to Embrace Judaism is Report

August 20, 1929
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Three million Armenians, a people whose fate during the World War was similar to that of the Jews, contemplate embracing Judaism as their faith, according to a sensational report which appeared today in the Warsaw Jewish daily, “Der Hajnt.”

The newspaper reports that a group of Armenian leaders arrived in Warsaw incognito for the purpose of visiting the Jewish institutions in the largest Jewish community in Europe in order to acquaint themselves with the ways of Jewish life. The leaders, whose names were not given by the newspapers, related that several years ago, Armenians who live in various parts of the world formed an association called “Ararat-Zion,” which has the embracing of Judaism for its purpose, the combination of the name indicating the sought-for harmony between Ararat, the Armenian mount, and the Mount of Zion. Ninety per cent of the Armenians are said to be willing to embrace Judaism.

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