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Accuses Peretz Club of Inconsistency in Yiddish School Fight Protest

November 17, 1929
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Responding to protests voiced in New York against the campaign against the Yiddish schools here conducted by the “Hajnt,” the paper asks why the Peretz Writers Club, initiators of the protest, is boycotting the staff of the “Freiheit” for greetings sent to the Arabs and is at the same time demanding tolerance for the Bundists who have justified the Mufti’s pogromists. The “Hajnt ” says “we are fighting Bundist hegemony over Jewish culture because we seek to strengthen Jewish cultural values by liberating it from caste control.

The J. L. Peretz Writers Club, at a general meeting in New York called to protest the fight against the Yiddish schools in Poland, had issued an appeal to the writers of the Warsaw paper the “Hajnt,” asking them and “warning as colleagues” to stop their campaign against the Yiddish schools, emphasizing the great damage they were doing by destroying the cultural institutions. The appeal stated that the Jewish democracy of the world was behind these schools and that their destruction would result in great grief and sorrow to the Jewish democracy.

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