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Tashlik Clash Between Jews and Christians in Riga: Jews Resent Crucifix Put Up at Place of Their Dev

September 16, 1931
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A fight took place here yesterday during the Tashlik ceremony when a group of Christians collected at the river-side while the Jews were performing their rites and put up a crucifix to annoy them. The Jews asked them to remove the crucifix, but they refused to do so. One Jew named Abramovitch was stabbed, and seriously wounded.

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